Hope your day is filled with gratitude, family, friends and good food. And if you have room for one more eye-pleasing dish in your menu, I suggest you try this great cranberry sauce handed down to me by my husband’s grandmother. Come and cook with us!
Author: Kathrin
My weekly blog, originally started with my friend Jessica, entices readers to get into the kitchen and cook meals, every day. I provide inspiration, recipes, and reasons to overcome the struggles that keep people from cooking at home: confidence, time, desire, money or priorities. No excuses! Come and cook with us!
What is Chronic Inflammation?
Chronic inflammation, weakened immune system, anti-inflammation diet… these buzz words are all over the health news lately, and we’d like to use this week’s post to explain why it’s important to understand the relationship between inflammation, the immune system and how diet impacts the two and thus the quality of our health. Come and cook with us! Continue reading “What is Chronic Inflammation?”
Add some Chives to your Lives
Since returning to California this past week, I spent a considerable amount of time thinking about our trip back to Italy. Whether enjoying time with family, hiking in my beloved mountains or catching up with friends, it feels a little like turning the clock back to my happy childhood. Of the many exciting things we did, our annual ritual visit to our “back-to-basics” hut high up at 7,000 feet was among the best. A wooden stove, a few pots and pans and the most majestic view are enough to turn every day into a unique and memorable experience. Apart from milk and butter provided by three cows who graze the steep hills surrounding the neighboring farmer’s hut, we have to carry up everything we need for nourishment. That is how we learn to make the most with what little we have. One of our most successful menu items, apart from crêpes and buckwheat riebel, are the impossibly simple but unbelievably delicious butter and chive sandwiches. Come and cook with us! Continue reading “Add some Chives to your Lives”
Buon Ferragosto!
Today, on August 15th, Italians are celebrating the middle of summer so: “Buon Ferragosto a tutti”.
After spending the last few weeks re-living the memories of my happy childhood back home in this small town in the Dolomites, we are ready to return to Northern California.
Bags are packed and my inspiration is running at an all-time high with plenty of new and easy recipes to share with you. Fall will be here before we know it and we’re looking forward to celebrating it with you!
Enjoy the last weeks of summer!
PS: This isn’t my picture, but the mountains on it are from my town! Come and climb with us!
Let’s Have a Farinata at My House!
Variety is the spice of life. That’s at least the mantra I try to follow when choosing recipes that use lesser known grains or even legumes to broaden the nutritional palette of my family’s diet. Sure, we all have our go-to dishes that are 100% fool-proof and always work, particularly when you are in a pinch. But it’s the new and unknown ones that are fun to experiment with, even more so, if your family is prepared to join you in this adventurous culinary journey. And that is how I came to try garbanzo bean flour. I knew green and dried chickpeas and had plenty of ideas on what to do with them, but stone ground chickpea flour? Cooking with that was news to me. Come and cook with us! Continue reading “Let’s Have a Farinata at My House!”
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