Tag Archives: food culture This is the best guacamole ever, and it is so simple! 2 Ripe Avocados- the best are the dark, thick skinned type; I prefer HAAS 1/2 Tomato seeds removed 1 Clove Garlic put in a press, or minced very fine 1/2 Sweet Onion diced very small Juice of 1/2 Lime 3 TBL chopped cilantro Salt […]  One night while shopping for a salmon dinner I had an interesting encounter. I was living in Stamford, New York; a small village in Delaware County. I had a diner there called The Hungry Moon. It was a small diner, in what I already mentioned was a small town. There was one bank, one grocery […]  I have caught jam fever, and spent several hours making my first tomato jam! Thanks to Marisa McClellan of Food in Jars, I am now entering a new realm of cooking; I am putting things by. I know I haven’t made a lot […]  Saffron is one of my favorite spices, it is also the most expensive spice in the world, so I use it sparingly. You can find recipes using it from across the globe, and amazingly enough despite their reputation for being plain and thrifty, the Pennsylvania Dutch love saffron and use it in both sweet and […]  “Would you like a homemade waffle? ” This is what I was asked every other morning at the Inn where I spent the last week of my vacation. Hmmm, homemade? Well within seconds—and I mean seconds, a steaming, perfect waffle would appear! Maybe they meant ‘freshly made?’ It turned out that they were […] |
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