Fireside Flatbreads with Olive Oil
Today, I want to invite you to try a recipe that I go back to time and time again – fireside flatbreads with olive oil. This is all purpose flatbread…
Read More Recipes
Below is a collection of whole-food based recipes - many of which are created from our land’s offerings. The recipes taste the best when the ingredients are as local and organic as you can find them.
Meat Pie with Sage
I’m in love with this Meat Pie with Sage recipe – and it’s not only because I first learned of it from my 60-year-old-British-love Monty Don. It’s because I feel like…
Read More
Spaghetti with Sun Dried Tomato Pesto and Tomato Confit
It’s easy too long for spring and sun-kissed summer skin. It’s much harder to endure the cold, dark days ahead of us. To keep our chins up this winter, I…
Read More
Green Potatoes
You know I like to talk about food, but I’m currently revolting against the food blogs that ramble on for a hundred paragraphs to give you a simple recipe so that they…
Read More
A Rustic Farm Breakfast Over Fire
I spent the entire day reorganizing, cleaning, and checking on all of our root cellar produce. A few onions every now and again will bolt or rot in the bins…
Read More
Roasting Coffee at Home
YES, we roast our own coffee beans at home. YES, we go rid of our espresso machine that uses said beans. YES, we found something equally wonderful (and way, way, way…
Read More
Sweet Almond Panna Cotta
I’ve known how to make Italian Panna Cotta for a long while now (I’m getting old ya know), but when in Sicily, Chef Martina of Signum taught me to make…
Read More
French 75 | My Favorite Cocktail
Dare I say, my homemade cocktails are often better than those I can get in a bar – even a good bar. For my favorite French 75, I am grateful…
Read More
Homemade Ricotta Gnocchi
After visiting a Sicilian sheep dairy, and making homemade ricotta alongside the shepherd in a 600 year old courtyard, I came back home ready to make homemade ricotta gnocchi. It…
Read More
Should we only eat fresh food? | Winter Slaw
Today in the kitchen, I’m sharing what the food coming out of my root cellar actually looks like. The reality is these foods were pulled from the garden months ago….
Read More
Candied Christmas Nuts
I’m the type of friend who gives candied Christmas nuts for gifts. I’m also the type of friend who would love to get candied Christmas nuts as a gift. Call…
Read More
“Every recipe should have the handprint of a family.”
You know those live experiences that you never are the same after? That was me meeting Melissa Muller of Feudo Montoni in Sicily. I don’t think I’ll ever see food,…
Read More