For the last few months, I’ve had the fortune to help a friend prepare her weekly meals. With plenty of recipes in my repertoire, coming up with a weekly menu wasn’t a challenge at all. Still, I’m always on the look-out for easy-to-make dishes that I can share with all of you. Which is why I was thrilled when my friend recommended a new cookbook to use for her meals: Nourishing Connections Cookbook by Ceres. For those who know it, keep up the good work and use it as your guide to make delicious dishes. For the rest of us, rejoice in having found a great resource with simple, versatile and easy to make recipes that are full of flavor, taste and a lot of wholesomeness. Come and cook with us! Continue reading “Nourishing Connections: Great Food, Great Cause”
Tag: Vegetables
Cool as a Cucumber
One of my closest friends in college was a girl called Sonia. She grew up in Cagliari, a place so different from my own that I couldn’t wait to join her for two weeks at her parents’ summer house in Solanas, a tiny seaside village on the Southern coast of Sardinia. Being young and without worries, we spent the days hanging out with her friends, tanning ourselves and cooling off in the water. There was one little shop in town – and it sold fresh produce including watermelon and what turned out to be the biggest delight when you’re in need of a pick-me-up on the beach: fresh cucumbers. Who knew that they can taste so refreshing in hot weather. With the summer well underway here in Northern California, twenty years on I still remember sitting with my toes in the sand and fresh cukes in my hand enjoying the hot summer breeze coming from the Mediterranean sea. What a summer. Come and cook with us! Continue reading “Cool as a Cucumber”
Fed Up with Your Food?
It sure seems as if we can’t agree on what food is best for us. Maybe that is because those in charge of formulating the messages we hear the loudest follow an agenda that is not aligned with what’s best for our health in the long run. The main problem is that fresh produce doesn’t come with a marketing budget, or a healthy profit margin. And whether we want to admit it or not, advertising works and if it’s true that 98% of food related ads that children view (3920/year) are for products high in fat, sugar and sodium, how can an apple ever have a chance! We are constantly bombarded by the media with information on junk science, fad diets and food industry propaganda. So what is one to do? Come and cook with us! Continue reading “Fed Up with Your Food?”
Make Friends with the Artichoke!
Few things excite me more at the produce stand than a giant pyramid of artichokes! It’s that time of year when artichokes are in season. And as some of you know, this makes me very happy. They look and taste different from any other vegetable and, whether you want to turn them into a dip, a risotto, a pasta or just a conversation piece, give artichokes a try! Come and cook with us! Continue reading “Make Friends with the Artichoke!”
Ricotta to Riches
There are several staples in my fridge, apart from vegetables: milk, eggs, plain yogurt, and quark, or as a back-up, ricotta. I must have picked that up from my mom, who always has a jar or two of quark handy. Quark or ricotta, they are different, but can often be used interchangeably in dishes, sweet or savory. There options are many and the two all-time favorites quark or ricotta-featuring dishes in our house are Quarkauflauf, which you have heard me talk about, and Malfatti. What, you might say? Read on and you’ll find out. Come and cook with us! Continue reading “Ricotta to Riches”
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