This recipe comes to us via our good friend and garden partner’s family favorites. Simply delicious and easy to make… Crilley’s Almond Cake is best served hot resting on a smear of melted Bon Maman Cherry Preserves. Leftovers turn to a cookie for next day snacking… YUM!!! Preheat oven to 350° Butter an 8”x8” baking…
Fall
Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Bacon and Kale with Apple Cider Glaze
Ingredients… 2 quarts Brussels Sprouts, cleaned, dried, trimmed, cut in half with loose leaves reserved 6 slices of thick, center cut bacon, cut into lardons ¼ small onion, thinly sliced 2 leaves of Tuscan kale, rib removed, and sliced into thin strips 1 cup apple cider ¼ cup maple syrup Maldon Sea Salt Flakes Freshly…
Caramelized Onion and Sweet Potato Soup
If soup is on your Thanksgiving menu… this one’s a winner. So easy… so good. Ingredients… 1 very large sweet potato, diced small or sliced thinly 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1 yellow onion, diced Pinch of red pepper flakes 1 sage sprig ¼ cup maple syrup ¼ cup apple cider vinegar 1½ quarts…
Sumptuous Celery Soup
Ingredients… 1 extra large head of celery, chopped coarsely 1 medium potato, peeled and chopped coarsely 1 medium onion, peeled and chopped coarsely 1 medium apple, preferable a Granny Smith or Golden Delicious, peeled and chopped coarsely 3 Tablespoons unsalted butter Maldon Sea Salt Flakes White and black peppercorn mix, freshly ground 4 cups chicken…
Mare’s Chicken Cutlets
For added texture and taste just before serving… we garnish our cutlets with Just Simply… Cuisine’s building blocks of toasted breadcrumbs and slow roasted tomatoes. For the Chicken… Preheat oven to 400/425 degrees Fahrenheit. Season cutlets with sea salt and freshly ground peppercorns. In a cast iron skillet… melt equal amounts of unsalted butter and…
Sweet Potato, Goat Cheese, Sage Pizza
Ingredients… Pizza dough, room temperature, we use Vace’s 1 large sweet potato or yam, peeled and thinly sliced 3 sprigs of sage, stems removed and rubbed in olive oil 1/2 cup crumbled goat cheese + more for serving Extra Virgin Olive Oil Cayenne Maldon Sea Salt Flakes To Make… Preheat grill or oven…
Jalapeno Corn Cakes
This easy-to-make recipe is a great way to “hold onto summer” and use up what was left of your “end of season” produce. We pile garden-fresh tomatoes, cilantro and roasted snacking peppers onto yummy, batter-fried corn cakes. So good… Ingredients… 2 1/2 cups fresh corn kernels 3 large “pasture-raised” eggs 3/4 cup whole milk 3…
Grissini… Italian Bread Sticks
We made these breadsticks in cooking class at La Baita on our 1st food tour in Salogni, Italy. Easy and delicious… one batch yields enough crunchiness to last you through the week. Just make sure you use plenty of coarse cornmeal to ease the rolling and shaping of your crispy treats. Ingredients… 2.2 lb or 1…
Stale Bread? Make Soup…
Save up your rock hard, stale bread to make hot and tasty soup on a cold winter’s day. Here’s the recipe for our delicious Bread Soup… enjoy! Ingredients… Extra-virgin olive oil 3 large cloves garlic, smashed Generous pinch of red pepper flakes 1 loaf stale rustic bread pulled or broken apart into palm size chunks…
No More Turkey Leftovers… Relief or Regret?
For those of you who take classes with us… you know how much we stress the creative use of leftovers!!! This Thanksgiving we roasted and stuffed a 30 pound turkey for 25 eaters and had enough extras to take us through the weekend. It’s always a “relief” and a “regret” when we exhaust what’s left…
We’re Nearing the End…
of mushroom season! But don’t despair… there’s still time to get your fungi fix! They say not to wash but just brush away the dregs of dirt that cling to your precious caps. Then loosely wrap them in a flour sack towel and store them in the fridge… they can breathe that way. As for…
Bountiful Broccoli…
With crisp, cool weather comes crisp, cool broccoli! Look for it at your farmers’ market or in the local produce section at your nearby grocer’s. It’s fresh, abundant, beautiful and delicious this time of year! One of our favorite past times… making a hearty broccoli soup on a chilly fall day! See recipe below… Broccoli…