What began as a morning experiment in breadmaking turned into an entire day of feasting and tasting, laughter and gaiety, all thanks to the serendipitous alignment of weather, food, drink, people and the all-important Lazy Saturday Afternoon. Winter Strawberries. Tomatoes in Spring. Summer Sanma. Persimmons in Fall. Season is everything. And seasonal cooking is big, [...]
Old School Pesto
We’ve gotten used to Pesto from a Bottle. Which is basically textureless, overly-preserved, old-man-scalp oily green pooh. Exactly. Why not make your own? It’s relatively quick, it gives great wrist/hand exercise (other than the usual way) and it tastes better than any pesto sauce you’ve ever had in your life…unless you happen to have 20 [...]
Spanokopita
Spanakopita, literally Spinach Pita (Pita from the Arabic, but meaning “pie”), otherwise known as Greek Quiche or merely Down Home Spinach Pie, for those linguistically challenged of you out there, comes from Greece. I like to have a few alternative names on the tip of my tongue ready to go for this one as after [...]
