Ancestors Recipe Ancestors : 19 Recipes

Menu du jour ancestors : 19 Recipes

The cure of my ancestors.
I mentioned in my last post about my trip to PNG that I came back and caught a cold. This was an almost immediate thing - I travelled home on Wednesday (alllllll day, leaving at 6.10 am and getting home at 10pm, all in the same time zone),[...]

I can?t help myself
If I don’t do something with dough, either bread or pasta, at least once a week, I go nuts! I find such a comfort in kneading dough. I never used a mixer of any type to make dough and I don’t think I ever will use one. Why? When you are[...]

My grandmother?s apron
One thing I remember most about my grandmother besides the wonderful food she made was the fact that she always wore an apron. I can hardly remember a time when she wasn’t wearing one. For a long time I didn’t have many pictures of my[...]

Did meat make us smarter?
Image via Wikipedia My wife and I haven't eaten meat since the end of February, relying on an abundance of seafood for our main source of protein. But a friend just sent me the following link to a piece on National Public[...]

Italian American Summer Festival
I know this post is a bit overdue but I have been busy painting the walls in the kitchen. We still have to finish the red wall, and then another yellow wall and also all the trim and a door and all the cabinets! Yikes. We aren’t even near[...]

Recipe Good things come in small packages

Good things come in small packages
No, this isn’t about my packages from Amazon because believe me, those are all very big boxes. The big chef’s skillet came along with the pasta pot set but that has a broken handle and will go back. This is about my grandparent’s[...]

Recipe The most influential woman in my life?

The most influential woman in my life?
is not one woman but many women who have taught me many things. I can’t say that is was only my mom or my grandmother. It was both of them, it was a neighbor growing up. It was my sister, my cousin and my best friends. Today the women around[...]

Recipe Mock Gyros with Chicken and Homemade Pitas

Mock Gyros with Chicken and Homemade Pitas
I decided to go with these Mock gyros instead of quesadillas tonight, mostly because I wanted to make Tzatziki sauce for the first time. I took off all the good meat left on the chicken and mixed it with some olive oil, garlic, oregano, salt and[...]

Recipe Conversations and all things Italian revisited

Conversations and all things Italian revisited
Yesterday I had a conversation with someone and mentioned that since last year when I started this blog, I have been cooking more and more Italian food. I also made the comment that “When I cook something like Chinese stir-fry for dinner, I[...]