Monica Pedersen’s Make It Beautiful: Designs and Ideas for Entertaining at Home
Monica Pedersen’s new book, Make It Beautiful: Designs and Ideas for Entertaining at Home, featured a few of Peggy’s recipes Monica Pedersen 2012 Read more.
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Recipe: Francisco Lillo’s Sweet Potato Fritters
Croquetas de Boniato (A great alternative to Thanksgiving sweet potato pie!) 3 cups sweet potatoes (cooked and mashed) 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon salt 2 eggs 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1/4 cup sugar 3 eggs (beaten for egg wash) 1 1/2 cups crushed almonds oil for frying Heat …
Cooking in the Alpujarras, Spain: Chestnut Soup with Sherry.
The end of October is definitely chestnut time. The air cools and the spiny balls drop to the ground when the wind blows. Its a bit of bother getting into them, but well worth it. If you find them on the ground, you can put your foot on top of …
Recipe: Smoky Eggplant with Yellow Peppers and Red Onion
Bearing left at the bridge, we leave the GR142 and follow the right bank of the Rio Trevelez, almost immediately crossing a stream over large slabs of smooth stone. Beyond the stream, a yellow waymark indicates a rough path that zigzags up through big bushes of retama. We follow …
Breakfast Bruschetta.
Every food has a story. This morning I saw the bread from yesterday and wanted toast. I thought, “this isn’t just any toast. This is Maorizio’s rustic loaf perfect for bruschetta”. I don’t usually eat bruschetta for breakfast, but a flat of my good friend Michael’s heirloom tomatoes were staring …
Cool Cucumber Summer Soup from The House of Dreams.
I heard the cicada’s sing in the tall cottonwood trees, midday today. For them the conditions were delightful. It was a sign. There are cucumbers in the garden, as well as scallion and dill, perfect for a cool summer evening soup. It would be refreshing and fit the sunset hour. I thought, if it’s hot enough for them to sing, it’s hot enough for us to eat cool cucumber soup.
Recipe: Ajo Blanco
1 slice of stale bread, crust removed 1/2 cup water 1 garlic clove salt 1/4 cup blanched almonds 1 Tblsp sherry vinegar 1/2 cup olive oil 2 cups ice water 24 grapes, green and seedless Soak bread in water for 1 minute. Squeeze dry. Pound garlic with salt into …
Aperitivo Time!
Here are a few of my favorite aperitivi. I did not write this article, but compiled this info some years back and did not get the author’s name. An English mixologist, no doubt…most unfortunate as it’s well written. Enjoy. Old-Fashioned 1/2 orange slice 1 lump (or cube) sugar 2 dashes …
Guazetto: A Saucy, Stewy Way to Serve Fish.
Angelo Cabani is a mentor of mine. A spectacular chef, with big eyes, a big mustache, and a huge appetite for fine and tasty fish.His restaurant, Locanda Miranda, is located in what he likes to call his “gastronomic hotel” by the sea. It is perched above the Bay of Poets …
Almond Cake from Andalucia: Torta de Almendras de Andalucia
Looking for a simple cake for Thanksgiving or something to please a no-gluten glutton? Here is a recipe from the Spanish trio of Kim Schiffer, Ashley Mulligan in Mallorca and myself from the last program in Spain that we did together. Be sure to check it out for next year!