Yes, this is osso buco stew, not osso buco. Why? Mainly because sometimes I am lazy. I did not want to have to check it and baste it, especially since it was an amazing miracle that the pot I cooked it in even fit in my countertop oven. Yes, [...]
The olives one can get here are ridiculously gorgeous. Anyone who goes to the market on Saturday can see the olive sellers, who must have over two dozen types of olives. I walk by and drool, and wish that I could just sample one of each. Coming from an [...]
Hummus isn’t the only bean dip out there. And while I love hummus, tahini is expensive and can be hard to find. I made this white bean and tuna dip to go with our “mezze” for this month’s Daring Kitchen challenge. I originally decided to create [...]
What a challenge this month, and doubly so for me as I am still trying to get settled and find my way around! I had to do something completely different for the pita bread because of the gluten free (GF) thing. In bread, gluten manages to [...]
So Groundhog’s Day came and went this year, and the verdict was that we still had a good 6 weeks of Winter left. I’m not sure if Punxsutawney Phil is accurate across continents, given that he doesn’t seem to have a great track record [...]
Simplicity can come in a bowl.
There are days when it takes all the energy I have to convince myself to drag my feet down the icy sidewalk, wind whipping at my face and chapped lips, hunching my shoulders up to try to keep my scarf in place as I walk home after [...]
Winter is the season for endives (pronounced ahn-deev in French), and nothing could have said that more than their prevalence at every single stand at the market last weekend. Red ones, white ones, Belgian endives are totally in their prime right now. They are a crunchy and [...]
I don’t think I’ve ever met a nicer group of people than the Swiss. For example, one evening my husband and I went to buy some food at a local shop, and much to our dismay realized when we went to pay that they only took cash. [...]
Besides salads, this dish might be the first dish here that doesn’t involve any cooking. In fact, everything about this dish is completely raw. I’m not necessarily a proponent of raw food, but that doesn’t mean that I won’t give myself the chance to make something delicious if it happens to be [...]
Third time is a charm….well almost…. you see, I just HAD to make macarons for Christmas. Mainly because the recipe I was using for dessert, poached apples filled with frangipane pastry cream, called for crushed macarons. While I could have “cheated” and bought some at the store, I have [...]