Gifted Gourmet

If you will follow the links to these gourmet food sites, I think you will see how many terrific brands of the olive oils and balsamics that you will find: Gourmet foods online I have found delightful selections at Zingerman's, Dean and DeLuca, and Citarella ... fantastic selection of olive oils and vinegars ... Personally, I love Minus8 wine vinegar .. smooth and velvety ... balsamics of all qualities

and, if you don't mind a bit of interference by a bit of cold turkey (no, not the stopping smoking blog) there is this British concoction: BBC's cold turkey with potato salad. Apparently the addition of black olives, capers and sun-dried tomatoes makes for a lively offering! Good luck, Jansson!

Thought I'd seen pretty much everything but this takes le gâteau au chocolat!

A reasonably low fat dinner in the heat of August ... Vegetable medley Chicken breasts sauteed in smoked paprika, tomato garnish atop angelhair pasta Juicy georgia peaches poached in red wine Challah and a white sparkling wine Simple and healthy Shabbos dinner .. Shabbat shalom everyone who participates in and/or reads and enjoys this thread ...

It is quite simple really .. will PM details which I will simplify ... thanks for saying you enjoy the pictures, Miriam!

What doesn't the internet have to offer in the way of cooking? Yes, recipes, of course ..... so many sites which allow one to input on hand ingredients and which will come up with a workable recipe to fit those ingredients to produce a dish. The shopping for cooking supples is amazing! I have bought pots, pans, serving pieces, my Santoku, and a ton of great things which piqued my interest. Yes, even to ordering items which I might never find in my local stores .. or was not able to locate: a special smoked paprika from Spain, a wine, my new bottle of Minus8 vinegar, ice wines, and so many more things. Ideas, and more and more ideas .. travel which is food centered is now at hand with the click of the mouse ... And when I plan a trip or plan to visit a restaurant and want to view their menu in advance, the internet offers that as well ...online menu thread Food photography: found two excellent cameras online and have learned to photograph food I prepare ...

but everyone there seems to be quite svelte ... whatta place this is! .. is their business brisk? The selections look to be quite comprehensive.

Italian Rice Stuffed Tomatoes .. might this be close to what you experienced?

Well said, indeed .. once there was a thread on how cooking helped to relieve the pain of mourning ... will look for it ...

I do it all the time .. but haven't done so when any of the burners was still glowing ...

A Seeger Finale ... slideshow ... skip the Wolf Camera ad (by clicking twice) to see who was there ...

Salad vinaigrette Roasted turkey breast Roasted potatoes with kishke Thai cold noodle salad Fresh vegetables Fresh fruit Challah & wine I, too, would like to wish our Rebecca a full return to good health soon ... didn't understand what was happening until I read your post here in this thread, Rebecca... a refuah schlema to you.

Once upon a time when I was younger and full of energy and culinary ambition, I made a croquembouche for a family member's birthday party. Very time consuming and labor intensive .. looked like some of these .. but it really did taste great! Homemade strudel takes a long time but only if you decide to pull the phyllo by hand ...

I still enjoy this poster-making tremendously!

Not entirely in agreement with your comment There are still a great many chefs of exceptional quality here in Atlanta, as of today ... The full John Kessler article appears here: Seeger's will close on Aug. 19 and, perhaps, this may yet happen ... hoping so!

Nutella and srichacha (forgive my spelling ..this word sounds like a latin dance to me) ...

I always enjoy photographs of the foods in Israel so anything you choose to show on your blog will be wonderful to me ... On our trip a few years back, we were in Sde Boker and brought back small rocks from near Ben Gurion's grave which we then put on Yitzak Rabin's grave on Mount Herzl Cemetery ... a moving experience...

David Ben Gurion's home in Sde Boker?

Sayonara Sushi!

Haven't we all 'grown up' sufficiently to read and ignore some of these exceptions? How can one read a Bourdain book and not see those words, yet read for content, wisdom, and humor?

and I do know that this knife isn't really a meat slicer .. but who could resist?

I have to say that these just keep getting better and better! Some could even be professional quality work .... who knew that our food photographs could be made into such cool creations?

My entire Rosh Hashonah menu is now completely shot ... Chicken Soup Classic Gefilte Fish Old Country Chopped Liver Beef Brisket Kasha Varnishkes Potato Kugel Honey Cake oy ...

My grandmother lived to 104 and never knew anything about diets ... she ate everything ... and cooked for her huge family ...

Here is one such non-gelatin strawberry cake recipe ... can't one make a puree of the berries and sieve til the fresh juice comes out and then soak the layer in some of that, using a toothpick to let it drip into the cake? yet another cake recipe using the "real things" ..