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Jun 10
Opening a Wine Bottle With a Shoe
posted by: dawn in Uncategorized on 06 10th, 2010 | | 1 Comment »

We’ve all been there — great bottle of wine and no corkscrew.  If you wear dress shoes… no problem!

Jun 1

I am excited to enter the Kitchen Bootcamp Sauce Challenge with my authentic Mexican salsa recipe  for Salsa Verde which is also known as green sauce.  This sauce isn’t covered in the Professional Cook but my green sauce recipe is so simple and tasty I’m sure you’ll be making it for your family.  It’s similar [...]

Mar 11

If you are coming to my house for dinner, I have one bit of advice; come hungry.  Especially right now as I’m playing with my MATOFC (Mastering the Art of French Cooking) trying to satisfy my yearning to go back to France when my financial reality does not include a ticket. Recently we had friends [...]

Mar 8

For years my knife skills have been a point of insecurity.  If you watch enough cooking shows, you too may share my issue.  I have bought DVDs, books and eagerly gone to demonstrations.  I had a friend who is a CIA graduate spend some time with me trying to show me how to use my [...]

Mar 3

I bought this little dandy a couple weeks ago thinking I’d use it to make sauces in my non-stick pans.  It’s cute, heat resistant and safe on non-stick coating — what’s not to like?  After plunking down my $18 and it finally arriving in the mail I couldn’t wait to use it.  So I made [...]

Mar 1

I don’t “whine” on a rainy day, I wine, because they are days that God created so we would make time to enjoy good books and good wine.  In January I had a customer visit in Half Moon Bay which is on the Pacific Ocean about a 45 minute drive south of San Francisco.  It’s [...]

Feb 27

I’ve been thinking that I love to shop but I can’t buy everything I want. So – I thought I would start to pass on cute or unique food and wine finds to my readers. I’m hoping to do this once a week. Please tell me if you love or hate this idea.  Want to [...]

Jan 4
Are We Too Stupid to Cook?
posted by: dawn in Uncategorized on 01 4th, 2010 | | 1 Comment »

After making my food predictions for 2010 the January food magazines have started to fill my mailbox (OH HAPPY DAY).  Each issue has something that validates my 2010 predictions and my fellow bloggers are writing on the same issues. Michael Ruhlman has a great post on his blog today asking if Americans are too stupid [...]

Dec 31

Gazing into my Crystal Ball, I thought I would share my top 10 food predictions for 2010 in no particular order. 1.  Latin favors will reign supreme. I don’t think this one is a stunner to anyone.  Rick Bayless and others are driving a Latin flavor revolution not to mention that the Latin population is [...]

Dec 18

On a unusual solo trip to the grocery store, I found a rarity (rare that is for my Kissimme Florida”mega-mart” chain that caters to tourists more than locals); real pancetta! Pancetta is an Italian version of bacon. Made from pork belly, pancetta is salt cured but not smoked like most American bacon.  It has a [...]

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