This is not home made! When I was sick recently, I resorted to my emergency stash of canned soup, which included this Select Harvest soup from Campbell’s. They have improved their soups in recent years, so, while the Select Harvest line is still more processed than I’d like, it hit the spot, and was only … Continue reading
Posted in February 2011 …
Celebrity Chefs Reunite at Eno Terra
Celebrity Chefs Reunite at Eno Terra on March 6 at an elegant event (3-7pm) to benefit the Parkinson Alliance featuring the talents of Claudia Fleming, Jonathan Benno, and Christopher Albrecht. Here is the scrumptious menu: Stuzzicchini •Arancini•Schiacciata•Seasonal Soup Watercress Salad assorted baby beets, shaved raw beets, radish, blood orange vinager, ricotta salada Grilled Octopus fried … Continue reading
Breakfast of Champions
This isn’t the first thing most of you will think of when you read that phrase. But this breakfast is the kind of old-country stick-to-your-ribs fare that my Armenian grandparents enjoyed. Now I make it for any time of day, and always relish it, especially during a winter like this, when you’re always fighiting the … Continue reading
No baking required!
Attention home cooks – You don’t even have to turn on your oven to enter the Princeton Pi Day Pie contest! Just email your best dessert pie recipe to lillipies@yahoo.com to enter. The top entries will be prepared by local chefs for judging on March 13. Details on the website, of course.
Money in the Bank
My father used to refer to leftovers as “money in the bank.” While it became a family sport to tease him about his somewhat obsessive attachment to old food in the fridge and freezer, I have to agree with him in principal. Which is why I scooped up packages of cut up butternut squash and rutabagas on a Sunday visit to … Continue reading
A Light Gone Out
Princeton’s Italian community has suffered more than one loss this winter, and the latest, of Dorothea’s House trustee Alessandra Mazzucato, is indeed a hard loss to endure. My late mother adored Alessandra, who taught us Italian at the Princeton Adult School in the mid/late 1980s. Always a warm welcome, always a warm smile. We started going … Continue reading
Pi[e] Day Rules! (or measures…)
Got Pie? As part of the 2011 Princeton Pi Day festivities, there is a pie-judging contest. That takes place at the Nassau Inn on March 13, and your’s truly will be judging along with several other local culinary “luminaries”! Home bakers should submit their family favorite pie recipe by March 1 to lillipies@yahoo.com. Selected pies will be … Continue reading
Save Our Whoopie Pie!
A culinary battle is forming over the humble whoopie pie. I have always associated this cake/filling sandwich with Lancaster County PA and the Amish. Now the state of Maine is horning in, and trying to claim the pie for their own, and may even name it their official state treat! The Wall Street Journal exposed this dastardly plot … Continue reading
Sophie’s Bistro~New Years Eve~Gifts
The perfect birthday dinner at Sophie’s Bistro in Somerset. This was in early November when a couple of dear friends treated me at one of our favorite places, where we indulge our inner Francophile. We return to Sophie’s again and again, in spite of the longish (for us) drive north. But it seems like that … Continue reading
Lamb steak “Milanese”
I love just about any protein prepared “Milanese” style. That is, a thinnish cut (pounded thinner if necessary), breaded, and fried crisp. I think a squirt of lemon is de rigueur (I like that with chops, too). I used to just see Veal Milanese, here and there, on more traditional Italian menus, but then I spied a … Continue reading
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