This recipe, along with the béchamel sauce recipe, come from the Silver Spoon cookbook. A terrific “no nonsense” meal for a rainy Saturday afternoon. I made homemade macaroni for this dish and served it with a tomato/cucumber salad tossed with a vinaigrette. Enjoy! Macaroni Au Gratin serves 4 2 Tbsp. butter, plus extra for greasing … Continue reading
White Wine Coq Au Vin ~ Today’s Lunch
Today’s lunch recipe is courtesy of Sunset Magazine. This is a simple and impressive dish. It tastes like you’ve spent hours cooking! Try it out at your dinner party. Serve with a crusty baguette for dunking. Serves 4 4 1/2 Tbsp. flour 3/4 Tsp. kosher salt, divided 1 Tsp. pepper, divided 1 Tsp. herbs de … Continue reading
Homemade Rigatoni With Wine Plumped Porcini And Tomato Cream Sauce ~ Vegetarian
One of my Christmas gifts this year was an extruder for the KitchenAid mixer. After shoveling out paths through the snow in our back yard so our little doggie can run, I came inside and made homemade rigatoni. I’m not going to give you an exact recipe for the sauce, because it’s my own creation … Continue reading
Pork Roast And Sauerkraut ~ Happy New Year!
For the last twenty years since Sandy and I have been together, she makes this dish, serving it with mashed potatoes, on New Year’s Day. In her family it was a tradition to make this meal, believing it brings all who eat it good luck throughout the new year. So far, so good! May the … Continue reading
Paella, Susan Style
I received a paella pan for Christmas and was determined to use it right away since I’ve never before made paella. Looking through recipes, I found there were no two paella’s alike, so I decided to choose, from all that I read, the ingredients I like, and this is what I came up with. I … Continue reading
Roast Chicken ~ The Seasons Of Veuve Clicquot
This is a very simple recipe from The Seasons Of Veuve Clicquot, A Social Cookbook For All Celebrations. I roasted this chicken so that there is plenty in the house to snack on when the snow storm overtakes our town. 1 whole chicken, giblets removed from the cavity 1 bunch thyme, plus some thyme flowers … Continue reading
Red Wine, White Wine, Fine Food Too! 