Here’s a nice, no-neeed-to-plan ahead, mid/late afternoon weekend excursion – a trip to Washington Town Center, home of De Lorenzo’s Tomato Pies and Dolce & Clemente’s Italian Market. First we stop at Dolce & Clemente’s, for a little Italian grocery shopping, then we stow our goodies in the car before getting in line outside De Lorenzo’s – … Continue reading
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Squash Ravioli
I always go on a bit of a butternut squash craze in the fall, and even wrote about it for one of my recent Packet In The Kitchen columns. And I noticed these triangular squash-filled ravioli on a recent visit to Trader Joe’s, so had to try them. I also bought shiitaki mushrooms, and sautéed … Continue reading
Donna Toscana @ Whole Foods
Donna Toscana chocolate fans take note! You may now buy Diane Pinder’s packaged Donna Toscana gourmet bars and chocolates, and her CocoaBee Honey Caramels at the Princeton Whole Foods Market (store does not carry individual chocolates). This is good news indeed! This makes her third Whole Foods Market launch in New Jersey. I am running … Continue reading
Griggstown Farm Soup
It’s surprising how much grocery shopping one can do at the Griggstown Quail Farm and Market. Poultry-check. Produce-check. Farm fresh eggs-check. Pot pies-check. And don’t forget the great pies, sausages, myriad frozen products, and big bags of mixed dried wild mushrooms for risottos and making your own soup. They also have various condiments and many, many … Continue reading
Good Korma
Cherry Grove lamb cubes with TastyBite Good Korma simmer sauce and added Kashmiri chile (a girl needs her spice). Yogurt sauce and basmati rice with apples and raisins from Trader Joe’s. This was a quick and easy meal, although I probably should have simmered the lamb longer, to make it more tender. But it was getting … Continue reading
Onion Soup
My little secret – I’ll never live this down! This onion soup is, believe it or not Campbell’s. No, not the heavily salted condensed kind, although I hear they’ve cut back on the salt in those. But this is part of the Campbell’s Select Harvest line, in a larger can. I “enhance” it with brandy and … Continue reading
Sandwiches
Just as I eat breakfast for dinner since I rarely cook breakfast in the morning, I tend to do the same with lunch, a meal I rarely eat at home. I’ve had some nice end-of-summer tomatoes, plus good bacon, so used them in two kinds of sandwiches for recent dinners – grilled cheese (I had sliced “fontina” on … Continue reading
Quesadilla
I recently enjoyed an afternoon in the Sergeantsville area including lunch at the The Café in Rosemont. (Their Wednesday Global Dinners always sound wonderful to me, when I read the menus.) The excursion started with a desire to finally visit Maresca’s butcher shop, which I’d heard and read about for years. My friend and I stopped … Continue reading
From Honey Cake to Maple Syrup
Picked up this cute maple syrup sampler at Marshall’s last weekend. At $7.99 (a total of 6.8 oz), this kit is “a replica of the old Vermont grading sample kits used by sugarmakers for generations.” It would make an ideal small gift (so I bought two). I’ve had great luck with Marshall’s gourmet food items, and … Continue reading
Tasty Gradoo
What have we here? Strange to say, it is the leavings at the bottom of a tin of very good honey-roasted mixed nuts from Walgreen’s. Some would call it “gradoo.” It’s detritus, and usually tossed in the garbage. Now, it might seem ridiculous, but the last time I finished a tin of these nuts, I … Continue reading
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