This dish has got plenty of color and a whole lot of class!I adore purple sweet potatoes. Just like the Japanese sweet potato variety, they are sweet and starchy and silky and smooth, but different from others – they are brilliant purple. They are “royal,” in a way. Thus, I petition for a re-naming procedure….
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As you can see, I’m a little bit obsessed with cherries right now.It’s summer and they are in season!Yet, as I think about it, I’m not necessarily a seasonal eater. I cook and eat what I feel like and when I feel like it. (“We say Who, we say What, and we say When!” –…
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Jerk is a style of cooking native to Jamaica in which meat is dry-rubbed or wet marinated with a very hot spice mixture called Jamaican jerk spice. Jerk seasoning is traditionally applied to pork and chicken. Modern recipes also apply jerk spice mixes to fish, shrimp, shellfish, beef, sausage, lamb, vegetables, and tofu. Jerk seasoning principally relies upon two items: allspice (called “pimento” in Jamaica) and Scotch bonnet peppers. Other ingredients may include cloves, cinnamon, scallions, nutmeg, thyme, garlic, brown sugar, ginger, and salt. Doesn’t it just all sound…
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Sometimes opportunity knocks. …and some of those “sometimes,” we may not necessarily entirely understand the opportunity or what it may bring, but simply recognize it as simply that – an opportunity. Somewhat recently I was contacted by vegas.com, complimenting me on my passion for food and exquisite taste, as well as my ability to make things…
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After creating the delicious brew and secret pizazz of a few weeks ago in my “Perfectly Pickled Seeds,” I poured over how best to savor this “seedy sauce.” Fennel…allspice…mustard…vinegar…salt ~hmmm “Reminds me of a Cuban sammy,” Brian says. But of course. The seeds, the uniquely pickled seeds MUST, just MUST be served over pork. Pork…
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This sweet ode and praise to the versatile little eggplant stole my heart. The rich, meaty, purpley produce product is one of my favorites to prepare in a variety of ways – however, I am aware that it can be also instill one of those “love or hate” relationships in many flexitarians. Praising the Versatile…
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