This recipe for basil yogurt sauce is from “Season Big Flavors, Beautiful Food” by Nik Sharma, a beautiful book with great recipes. Sharma also has a website A Brown Table, http://www.abrowntable.com/, and a blog at http://www.abrowntable.com/home. We came into a great deal of cut basil from a friend who was going to be away from […]
Tagged basil, recipe, yogurtWe arrived here yesterday in the evening. Our motel is the Best Western on the Beach, a very apt description. We got a beach facing room with a balcony.Nive view and we can sleep with the door open to our balcony to hear the waversall night long, or whenever we are awake. We had dinner […]
Tagged fried food, gulf shores, oysters, ruby reds, steamed shrimpDeb Perlman’s recipes are some of my favorites. I often check her site smittenkitchen.com first when I’m looking for a recipe or an idea of ways to use some ingredients we have. For example, the recipe I mention below was selected because we had bought 2 bushels of apples and wanted to make a treat with […]
Tagged cookbook, Deb Perlman, ginger, smitten kitchenLynn and I took a trip to  New Orleans this past Spring. We arrived on Easter Sunday and met up with our friends Patrick & Paula the next day and stayed until the following Monday – eight nights in all. Aside from Lynn’s unfortunate accident – she tripped on the street and fell on her face which […]
Tagged New Orleans, restaurantsA picture taken at the Fredericksburg Farmers Market on the first day of June. Spring crops have been available for a few weeks and some summer crops are coming in. These are , obviously, purple turnips – the spring ones that are sweeter and more tender than the ones available in the fall. These are […]
Tagged farmers market, turnips, view du jourI should have included this recipe in webliminalblog long ago. Went looking for the recipe tonight. Made it and it was, always, delicious. Used any sort of white potatoes, not just new potatoes. I’ve modified the recipe to reflect what we did tonight. Lemon-Garlic Roast Salmon on New Potatoes Copyright 2007 Lynne Rossetto Kasper. All Rights […]
Tagged potatoes, recipe, salmon, splendid tableLynn and I attended the Virginia Biological Farming, VABF.org, conference at the 4-H Center at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia. The image below is taken at sunrise from the front door of our motel room. The motel, Westlake Waterfront Inn, was located on a small peninsula into a finger of the lake. Many of the people […]
Tagged Gardening, organic, vabfBeets are in season now and we’ve been getting some great ones from Blenhiem Organic Gardens at the Fredericksburg Farmers Market. Â Here’s a recipe for a salad of beets and oranges. It has a great marinade for the beets too. Citrus Marinated Beet Salad : The Broken Bread Tried a variation of this tonight. Less […]
Tagged beet, orange, recipe, saladA three night stop in Bergen, Norway was part of our trip to Norway, England, Wales, and Iceland from April 28 – May 28. While there we stayed at Augustin Hotel. Augustin is a nice hotel with very nice art in the rooms and the hallways and public facilities. Coffee and tea is available each […]
Tagged norway, restaurantsWe were going to a friend’s house to watch the Super Bowl and volunteered to bring chicken wings. Making them without frying was our challenge, This recipe does a pretty good job of producing wings that are baked but appear fried. The technique involves letting them sit for several hours uncovered in the refrigerator.. Really […]
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