Three occasions for cake and three friends. Anything is an occasion when you’ve shared a friendship for more than 24 years. A love letter to the two ladies I love best in between their birthdays.
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My perfect idea of happiness is sharing a big bowl of pasta around a table with all of the people I love, preferably with a few enormous fluffy dogs at my feet. If I’m on the coast of the PNW or nearly anywhere in Italy, then I honestly wouldn’t need anything else. Except maybe bittersweet chocolate and deep red wine (but that’s a given). Native NE Ohioan, currently in Piemonte, Italy working on a Master’s in Gastronomy.
A CAKE TO SHARE: DOLCE DEL TRE
One of my favorite cakes adapted for my new home. It’s so simple that I’m sure you’ll make it as often as I have.
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MARKET TO TABLE: ROASTED ROOT VEG TWO WAYS – LET’S GET COZY
I love making dinners from root vegetables in the autumn. There is just something so satisfying about them – in addition to the fact that they are very easy to prepare. Today on Market to Table, I’ll show you how to prepare a few root veggies and some ways to make them a meal in your home.
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A MEAL FIT FOR A BEGGING NEWFIE: PUMPKIN & SWEET POTATO SOUP WITH SUN TOAST
I thought of a meal that Sadie might like and I think this would be it (besides ice cream, which I don’t have the capacity to make here). It has some of her favorite things – bread and eggs to eat and a pumpkin to boop and then stare at. It’ll make a lovely lunch for you this autumn. Hope you can cozy up to it and share with a four-legged friend.
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BIG PAWS, BIGGER HEART: AN EPITAPH TO A DOG
Dogs are family members – plain and simple. They love you unconditionally and only ask for a bit of love in return. We could all learn a hell of a lot from them. I lost one of my dogs this week, but the joy in my remembrances of her and greater than my grief of her passing. We must keep the best parts of those we know – both animal and human – alive within our hearts. She will always be in mine.
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ADAPTATION & THE ‘PERFECT’ COOKIE
When is a cookie recipe not a cookie recipe? Well, when it’s a metaphor for the power of adaptability. In making my favorite chocolate chip cookies I explore how flexibility and the ability to adapt to change has improved my life, despite my initial fear of it.
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‘THE’ CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE (& WAYS TO MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU ANYWHERE)
My favorite cookie – the be all and end all of chocolate chip cookies. The NY Times Chocolate Chip Cookie is my cookie love for life and will never be replaced. Though I did not create it, I don’t think one should mess with perfection, unless adapting a recipe for a foreign kitchen, as I did here out of necessity (and for fun).
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MARKET TO TABLE: TAGLIOLINI CACIO E PEPERONCINO
The first Market to Table recipe from my new apartment in Bra, Italy. A pasta dish that is quick, easy and uses only ingredients that were grown or produced locally, but can easily be reproduced elsewhere in the world. I hope you’ll enjoy this inaugural Italian Market to Table!
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A LOVELY VEGETARIAN END OF SUMMER DINNER: PIZZA AL TAGLIO WITH EGGPLANT, MOZZARELLA & BASIL
Pizza al taglio is my favorite way to eat pizza – everything is baked up on a thin crust on a rectangular baking sheet in a very hot oven. You can top it in all of the ways you would a normal pizza – there is just more to enjoy. Here is one of my favorite combinations.
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IT ALL BEGAN WITH GOAT BLOOD SOUP & OTHER REFLECTIONS FROM A DECADE OF VEGETARIANISM
Although this blog is not strictly vegetarian, I am and I owe so much to my move from omnivore to vegetarian. It completely changed how I viewed and interacted with food. And it all began ten years ago with a goat.
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MEET ME AT THE LONG TABLE 