It's Seriously Soupy Sunday, featuring one of my favorite bloggers Serena, who authors a blog called Seriously Soupy. Serena started Seriously Soupy as a creative outlet for herself after her first daughter was born, which combined her passion for cooking with an interest in learning more about soups and soup making. Since it started she has given soup tours and taught soup classes and has a catologue of over 100 soups on the site! You can join Serena on her Soupy journey at SeriouslySoupy.com and twice a month you can find her here, at My … [Read more...]
Apple Clafoutis
August 17, 2012 By 6 Comments
When I first started sorting through Mom’s recipes, I circled all of the words that (at the time) were completely meaningless to me. Among them: parboiled, pin prick, blanched and CLAFOUTIS. A year later, I’ve since parboiled, pin pricked, blanched and just yesterday, made my first clafoutis! How exciting. In my kitchen-clueless mind, Clafloutis sounded more like some sort of tree fungus rather than a celebrated baked custard French dessert. Apparently, a traditional clafoutis contains cherries arranged in a buttered dish covered with … [Read more...]
Pistachio-Crusted Chicken Breasts w/Raspberry Sauce
August 15, 2012 By 1 Comment
For me, there’s no better bonding opportunity than by cooking alongside my big sister; especially when we’re recreating one of Mom’s recipes. Whenever I’m with my dad and my sister (together )I constantly feel the intensity of the loss of my mom. This weekend I was with my dad and my sister so, Mom's absence followed me everywhere. But, I’m still determined to fill that overwhelming void with memories enhanced by her food. As luck would have it, my sister suggested we recreate one of Mom’s celebrated recipes that her family … [Read more...]
Blue Potato Salad
August 10, 2012 By 3 Comments
It’s hard being the consummate hostess because inevitably a lot of meal prep and clean up ensues. While I have built up the confidence to cook for people and I do enjoy feeding my family and friends, it’s so refreshing when a house guest comes to visit and requests to cook a yummy dish. What’s better than that? I have family visiting me this weekend and I carefully planned out each meal, primarily because I didn’t want to spend any time running out to the grocery store. I stocked up ahead of time and did a little prep/marinade work … [Read more...]
