Slow roasted tomatoes are cooked with olive oil and garlic and served with a bright basil oil and creamy burrata. This recipe is consistently on the weekday rotation. It’s one of those, ‘not really a recipe-recipe” and for years, I’ve just been throwing this together so quickly and easily, I finally took the time to […]
Lobster Mac and Cheese with Speck and Spinach
I still have vivid memories of my early years living in New York. Mom would take us to the waterfront (I think it was Sheepeshead Bay) and we would eat at this seafood place right on dock, watching boats sail by with the slight stench of seafood in the air. Mom would always order lobster […]
Kanafe with Ricotta and Shredded Phyllo
One of my favorite things to do with my girlfriends, is to drag them to obscure, random, foreign places and introduce them to flavors and textures that they have never met before. Some of the time, they nod their heads, hold their nose and take one for the team, but most of the time, they […]
Plantain, Black Bean and Havarti Arepas
PARTNER POST – Get creative with any of Castello’s uniquely crafted cheeses. Click here for a $1 off coupon to create your own gourmet masterpiece. You can imagine my excitement with Honest Cooking asked me to create a recipe with cheese! Yes, of course I will be home to receive your package of multiple blocks […]
Caprese Blintzes
I’d like to think of this caprese blintz as the epitome of my blended upbringing. Classic Italian flavors rolled up into my favorite childhood breakfast. You wouldn’t catch me blending and mashing up my cultural food because I thought you had to keep it “authentic” But who am I kidding? We are in 2015 now […]