Love, love, love quesadillas and salsa. Easy, forgiving, zingy, sloppy, cheap, pretty and the girls like them. What more could a person ask for? Wait for them to cool a bit before slicing as it gives the cheese time to set up and not ooze out the sides. You can hold these in the oven [...]
Summer Vegetable Strata 12 slices of day old or dry French or Italian Bread, cut in 1/2-inch slices 1 clove garlic, slightly crushed 5 large eggs 2 cups milk 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1 cup loosely packed fresh chopped basil leaves 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 [...]
Clam Chowder There are three ingredients that make this a very traditional recipe: salt pork, day old biscuits or saltines and milk. The more you substitute the less traditional your chowder will be. Notice that there is no butter or flour to thicken the chowder. If there were, then it would be Cream of Clam [...]
This recipe is the perfect balance of colors with the bright reds and pinks of the lobster nestled alongside the gentle white of the risotto and the brilliant green of the spinach. The flavors also balance well. The spinach is a slightly bitter taste that pares well with the soft, cheesy risotto and the salty, [...]
Stromboli was lunch today for a group of Waldorf kids on their 8th grade trip adventure. What a terrific group! As it was a PPH column first, the previous post only included a link, but now can include the whole recipe. After it ran, a reader asked this question about replacing white with wheat flour [...]
“Mama, WHY are we the only ones who take care of the chickens?” say the girls one morning. (They aren’t but who’s counting.) “I tell you what, I’ll do the chickens both morning and evening if you cook dinner tonight,” I say with complete certainty that they’ll choose chickens. “DEAL!” they say. So then goes [...]
I don’t get it. What is wrong with saying to your kids, “This is what we are having for dinner.” If they say I don’t like it, you say this is what we are having. If they don’t eat it, they will eventually get hungry and have what’s for dinner. I know more parents than [...]
I love artichokes any way you cook them. But this tangy, creamy sauce is one of my favorites. When artichokes are on sale, I’ll get a bunch of them and serve this sauce on the boat for pasta night. It used to be that I’d only serve one sauce, but then my energetic side got [...]
We hauled yesterday evening to a chilly, darkening sky. It’s now drizzly wet and not too cold and everyone is down working on the through hull fittings, spraying the bottom with the pressure washer to remove a year’s worth of muck and growth and setting up staging for the sanding and painting portion of the [...]
It’s the first time in the history of Easter dinners that we’ve spent more of it outside than in. We have several friends, none of whom have family in the area, with whom we often celebrate holidays. Typically we all gather with our winter coats on to watch the kids find their eggs and then [...]
