Rosemary Walnuts
These walnuts come to the diplomatickitchen via More Home Cooking (1995) by Laurie Colwin, who got the recipe from a …
Category Archives: Appetizers/Hors d’oeuvres
Sherry Brandy Edam Spread
Someone once described the store-bought, processed copies of homemade originals as “understudies” which, only on rare occasions, could come up …
Homemade Wholewheat Crackers with Assorted Herbs and Spices
Harmony is a happy state. It has all sorts of good side effects, not the least of which is a …
A Cold Winter’s Day Luncheon Menu Reminiscent of Sunny Climes ~ beginning with Spicy Roasted Red Pepper and Walnut Spread (Muhammarah)
Imagine a place where wintertime’s beauty and bite are keen. Imagine a high-ceilinged dining room with guests already seated around …
New Year’s Celebration for the Romantic, the Introvert, the Homebody ~ a Dinner for 2, 4, or 6 opening with Caviar and June Platt’s Marinated Mushrooms
Many enjoy their New Year’s celebration enlivened with a goodly crowd of partiers, music at high volume and dance, to …
Stina’s Liptauer Cheese
There are many good reasons to read Clementine Paddleford’s writings about American cooking. One of them has to do with …
French Fried Eggplant The Picayune with Sauce Remoulade Cajun-style
The Picayune (now known as The Times-Picayune) of New Orleans began publication in 1837. Its name referred to the cost of …
Cajun Crayfish
To catch crayfish, carry two empty coffee cans down to the bank of a freshwater creek briskly running over a …
Spreadable Butter Beans with Dukkah and Pita Chips Herbed and Spiced
Country singer Little Jimmy Dickens had this to sing about butter beans: Some folks think that cornpone’s best Some …
Little Puffed Potato Balls with Black Forest Ham ~ Boulettes soufflées aux pommes de terre et jambon de la Forêt-Noire
Black Forest ham is made according to a specific and lengthy process of seasoning, curing and smoking which gives it …
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