Posts Tagged recipe

  • recipe: Pork Loin With a Peach Tomato Mash recipe: Pork Loin With a Peach Tomato Mash

    4 garlic cloves, smashed                                                        1 tablespoon chopped peeled ginger 1 teaspoon curry powder sea salt and cracked black pepper to taste 1 2-pound pork loin 2 tablespoons extra virgi...

  • Recipe for Summer's Smash: A Zucchini Mash Recipe for Summer’s Smash: A Zucchini Mash

      Summer's Smash: Huge Zucchini Mash      Those of you who garden know the zucchini's deepest secrets.  It can go from a nice, presentable vegetable on the vine one day, to a humongous baseball bat overnight.  And what can you do with that?  Well, first of all,  cut it in half le...

  • Classic Caesar Salad Named For A Chef And Fine For A Silver Clouder Classic Caesar Salad Named For A Chef And Fine For A Silver Clouder

    The salad's creation is generally attributed to restaurateur Caesar Cardini (an Italian-born Mexican). Cardini was living in San Diego but also working in Tijuana where he avoided the restrictions of Prohibition. As his daughter Rosa (1928–2003) reported, her father invented the dish when a Four...

  • Recipe for Summer's Best Seared Scallops Recipe for Summer’s Best Seared Scallops

     Seared Scallops with Gremolata    Choose large, meaty sea scallops for ease of preparation, and remember this gremolata, which is simply a Mediterranean mix of fresh herbs  works well with other protein choices as well:  lamb, chicken, turkey.  Make the recipe work for you.Â...

  • All The Fish In The Sea And the Ones Which Aren't. Plus A great French Recipe All The Fish In The Sea And the Ones Which Aren’t. Plus A great French Recipe

    The aquarium in Monterey, California has compiled a handy booklet listing the fish which are readily available,  fish that are OK to buy, and the ones that are totally overfished and shouldn't be selected.  As a general rule,  our oceans are really stressed,  so you should only choose fish f...

  • Beware the Diet Recipe Trap.  Recipe Rescue Beware the Diet Recipe Trap. Recipe Rescue

    Browsing the internet today,  I read about a recipe for dieters that sounded pretty good in the description.  Chicken in Red Wine Sauce.  Hmmm,  I thought.  I could get into that.  Listed below are the ingredients as shown in the recipe.  You tell me what's wrong with this recipe. 1 Tbsp...

  • Let's Hear It For Rack of Lamb with a Mint Persillade Let’s Hear It For Rack of Lamb with a Mint Persillade

    I've made an amazing discovery at Trader Joe's.  In the frozen case they sell rack of lamb for ten dollars and change.  This will feed from two to four people and comes with a lovely spice and herb coating.  All you have to do is thaw it, place it on a olive oiled baking sheet and place it in a p...

  • Dramatic Dessert is Cheap to Make and Satisfying for Silver Clouders

    Silver Cloud Standby Dessert If you’re like me,  you do have a sweet tooth.  If you’re like me,  you do need to save money.  I like to make this showstopper dessert to serve at parties, but more importantly to put aside in the refrigerator and eat for desserts, for snacks, for whenever. ...

  • Chili Recipe for Cash and Time Strapped Silver Cloud Dieters Chili Recipe for Cash and Time Strapped Silver Cloud Dieters

    Chili Recipe For Silver Cloud Dieters Who Also Have a Busy Life and Little Money One of our dedicated Silver Cloud Dieters wrote to say that she was particularly cashed and time-strapped and did we have any suggestions for what to feed herself and her daughter. Chili comes to mind immediately....

  • What Ever Happened to the Venerable Hamburger? What Ever Happened to the Venerable Hamburger?

    What’s The Matter with Hamburger Meat? By Linda West Eckhardt Most of us, in the U.S. of A., who grew up within the last fifty years, were fed vast quantities of hamburger meat as children. Hamburgers, meat balls, meat loaves, et al were so much a part of the American diet that entire cookbo...