More Asparagus, My Favorite Spring Salad and a Smart Tart
Nicoise Salad Spring Nicoise Salad features boiled and marinated new potatoes, roasted asparagus, canned tuna and olives. Or place rows of roasted asparagus, cooked potato quarters, canned tuna, olives, grape tomatoes and chopped baby corn on a platter. Drizzle with...
Asparagus Season—A Reason to Celebrate Spring
Spring —Now is the right time. If there is one reason to eat asparagus, there might be a dozen. The flavor of asparagus is elusive to describe. Is it buttery or herbal, mellow or nutty, or delicious and surprising? Maybe all of these! The delicate taste of...
Nelson Mandela Quote
It always seems impossible until it's done. — Nelson Mandela
A Story about Walnuts
Did you know the botanically speaking, a nut is a fruit with a hard shell containing a single seed. The true nuts you might encounter in the produce aisle include hazelnuts and chestnuts. Many of the products sold as “culinary nuts” belong to other botanical...
Good Gadget-Microplane Herb Mill
Tired of chopping parsley? I am. I remembered my favorite garnish gadget one day when my cooking time was limited. I already had parsley washed and destemmed in a plastic bag in the veggie drawer of the refrigerator. I pulled it out of the refrigerator along with the...
A Special Day in Dublin—Bloomsday and We Are Here
100th anniversary—Couples walking down O'Connell lStreet all dressed up. "Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place in...
Delighting In Uncommon Grocery Items—Malahide, Ireland
Shopping for breakfast items to avoid too-many-tempting-buffet-items at hotel. Came across this surprising ready-made, refrigerated Spanish Tortilla (3.99 Euro). Unfortunately, our room does not have a microwave. Never liked the stuff, i.e. fondant icing but amazed...
Parkside, Poolside or Inside—”Cream” of Broccoli Soup To Be Sipped— Hot , Cold or Room Temp
Spring has officially sprung and my thoughts go to all foods "green"—today it's broccoli, but more particularly, broccoli stalks/broccoli stems, with added "trees" for deeper green color. I title this soup "cream" because it is a pureed soup that does not contain...
Pool Lit -Stanley Tucci’s Autobiography, Taste, Continued
The last chapter in Taste was hard to listen to. Stanley had pain in his mouth and it turned out to be cancer. Chemo and radiation left his body fragile with a 30 pound weight loss. After 2 1/2 years of suffering, a lot of it in bed and ill from even the smell of...
Pool Lit—What to Listen to While Jogging in the Pool- Best Audiobook Recommend
Daily exercises in the pool can get somewhat boring—all that counting! However, the exciting answer was a pair of waterproof headphones. Next was choosing audible books from Libby, available with my local library card. Passers-by at the condo pool around 9 AM, most...