The tomatoes are ripening in the bath tub in the yard. Yellow flowers peak out from the tops of the Roma vines like springtime mistletoe and promise more and more and more. You gotta find a good bisque recipe if your yard too burgeons with ripe reds. May I offer this for the sampling. Tomato […]
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Sicilian Caponata to #StopDiabetes
Ok diabetes, allow me to blow your mind. Here is a recipe that is both Italian and rife with chocolate that is made especially for you. November is American Diabetes Month, and so I am celebrating with a series of cookbooks the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has published. But here’s my attitude, as a physician, […]
Tartine-Style Polenta Cornbread and Tomato Sauces
Mix it till it looks like quicksand, he’d say. Till it moves like a slow song sounds. Patricia Smith’s description of making cornbread with her father is perfect. Dough churning like a slow song sounds, smooth but with grit and fleck. I’ve made cornbread so many many ways. In waffles with chili, on a skillet […]
Grilled Chicken and Veggie Pesto Pizza
I’m afraid that here in Minnesota we have come to the season wherein the mere idea of a sauna is the motive force behind each step I take toward winter. Ooh, it’s getting cold. And I’m frantic to make soup. Or piping hot pizza with all the veggies the summer has left behind. Grilled Chicken […]