Bobi and Bella helped with the pasta dinner on Saturday night. We made fresh pasta dough (recipe in an earlier post) and we used the dough for two types of ravioli: veal and sausage and cheese. These were served with [...]
My cousin, Helen, recently taught me to clean mushrooms in a very effective way. My method was to use a mushroom brush, a very specialized tool. Her method for cleaning mushroom is to use a wet paper towel to wipe off [...]
Caprese Salad Many of us love the standard Caprese recipe, which I make as follows: 5 large vine-ripened tomatoes, sliced 1/3 inch thick 2 pounds fresh mozzarella, sliced 1/4 inch thick 1 bunch fresh basil (about 20 to [...]
Pasta dough in a ball Rolling out the dough using the pasta maker Filling the raviolis in the press Finished Raviolis read to be cooked Egg Pasta Dough (From the "Handmade Pasta [...]
Next weekend is the opening of the 200-year anniversary celebration of Oktoberfest. Gary, my husband, and Eric, our son, are traveling to Munich to participate in the festivities. For those of us who are staying in San Diego, [...]
I promised more recipes for your tomato harvest. This one is so simple and yet so delicious. Make a batch of pizza dough in your bread machine described here. I use 1/2 of the batch for a thin crust. Roll [...]
Team cooking is a blast! It's fun and a great way to entertain. You can achieve so much more than a single cook can accomplish. It takes the stress out of hosting dinner parties. Prepare great meals at [...]
We have at least 4 or 5 ripe tomatoes in our garden every day, along with a cup or so of the small grape tomatoes. This is the time to enjoy them. If you aren't growing them in your garden, [...]
In just 1 hour and 40 minutes of waiting time and 5 minutes of working time, you can create the best pizza dough at home for pennies. I don't often hear my friends talking about using their bread machines [...]
More about homemade ice cream! The calories are adding up, so I tried the ice cream recipe with the half and half instead of the heavy cream and left out the sugar. This time I was looking for a different [...]