Pistachio – what an odd name for a crazy little nut. According to Wikipedia, the pistachio is a member of the cashew family originating from Central Asia and the Middle East.  Pistachios are a nutritionally dense food. They have quite a few amazing health benefits. And are an excellent source of good fat, fiber, antioxidants,
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When you love cooking as much as I do, you can imagine I also enjoy a good cooking class from time-to-time. In fact, when we travel there is always at least 2-3 cooking classes on the agenda (or more if I can squeeze them in). I love to see other cook’s processes to create a
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Just when I’d thought I had run out of ways to use ricotta and limoncello, these healthy (hardly seems possible) and flourless meringue clouds appeared to me like a dream. Well, truth be told, I saw a recipe for donuts that gave me the idea. Now you must be wondering, how could a donut recipe
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When we were in Italy last Fall, we visited Manduria, where Anna lives. She is Antimo Cimino’s mother and the sweetest lady on the planet. She works hard every day cooking and baking for her husband and family. This visit she taught me how to make her famous biscotti cookies. These cookies are like the
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Pinterest, the lifeblood, and death of me sometimes. I’m constantly saving recipes, crafts, gardening ideas, etc. to this “notebook in the sky.” It’s a little out of my comfort zone to use Pinterest, yet I love seeing what’s posted and “out there” to learn about.  I saw this recipe a few weeks ago and thought
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Thanksgiving week in the US brings up diverse emotions. There are those who are panicked because there are expectations around this holiday with food, family, and friends. There are those who are salivating not especially because of the food served on Thanksgiving, but because the holiday shopping sales start the day after. Whatever emotions are
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Question, who still has a cookie jar and uses it? I have friends with cookie jar collections, but don’t know of any who use a cookie jar anymore – well at least that would admit it. Do people just not eat cookies these days? Or is a “sleeve” of Oreos just that, a cellophane tube
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I admit, summer has taken my attention away from cooking. The mornings are perfect for a walk around the neighborhood,  followed by water aerobics. (Today I spotted two hot air balloons drifting by.) The garden then needs weeding and harvesting early veggies like sugar snap peas and fava beans. Planning for our trip to Italy
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Limoncello and ricotta are two things I make quite often. On the rare occasion when I make both on the same day, well, I just have to make something like these limoncello ricotta cookies.  Cookies are my kryptonite. You can have your pies and cakes, I’m a cookie lover. It’s all I can do to
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To quote Nestle: “This famous classic American cookie is a treat no matter what the age or occasion.” And it seems like today was a good day to make cookies, especially chocolate chip cookies.  Typically chocolate chip cookies were the first cookies most of us made. You may have fond memories from your childhood of making
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Wandering around on the internet at 3:00 am can be dangerous. For me, that means I’m looking at things that I shouldn’t… like recipes for cookies and coffee cakes and sugar-laden breads. Now what were you thinking?  In my web surfing, I stumbled upon this author of many cookbooks, Dorie Greenspan. I love her first name,
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Taste buds begging for a little something sweet? These cookies do require a bit of time, but the flavor is a just reward. Should I confess now or later about my goof on these mocha morsels? Mixing up the ingredients was easy enough but piping the cookies was a little more challenging. You need to know that
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