Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
Earliest Chanterelle Harvest, ever Abundant rainfall in July 2024 and warm weather started the mushrooms popping on Santa Fe Ski Mountain. We were lucky several times this season, and found ourselves looking for low frill ways to use these delicate flavored mushrooms. First use was to sauté simply in butter
New Years Eve Menu for 2017 Started with a salad and breadsticks and was the part of the meal that we’d sign up to provide. Gathering at our friends – Pat and Dave – house in RiNo they made a pork loin from a 20-year old Silver Palatte Cookbook published
New Year — Welcome 2016 We made a stuffed bread found in our Jacques & Julia cookbook, and it was added to with fresh vegetables, some stuffed mushrooms all as starters for this meal, that came to our dining room table for a light soup course, followed by an authentic
Just before Christmas Eve We had a light meal before making tamales that we would have for Christmas Eve dinner and to offer guests at our rented vacation home in our own town — for a long time.
New Year’s Eve for 2014 Changing to 2015 For starters we made potato pancakes on which we put brussel sprouts that had been roasted in the oven with small, torn pieces of dry aged (preserved meat) bresola sliced thin from Spanelli’s Italian Market. We drank the cider we’d made earlier
Mission for Fest of Changing Years: To enjoy making and eating a multi-course meal as an alternating gift for each other. Ten years ago, my husband and I made that our goal for celebrating New Years Eve. Back then, our work left us mostly alone on that night, kids were
Each pizza came to life with a different mushroom. All afternoon was set aside for a hike on a perfect in mid-July day. Not more than 15 minutes into the hike, a iron-brown stone turned out to be a mushroom of the very best kind — a King Bolete —
Everyone makes a big effort to end the year. New Year’s Eve started with a prosecco. The amuse bouche was ready – Castelvetrano olives with Terra chips. And the champagne was sitting with a thermometer reading 50°F on the back porch. The oysters would need opening. The ravioli needed making,
Rose Beranbaum’s Recipes Christmas cookie baking was a tradition in my house when I was growing up, so I continued it after I met my husband and we set up house, and while my kids were little, I’d invite over another mom and her kids to help. We’d spend the