~Making the Leap from Louboutin to Le Creuset
When I first started cooking, I thought French cooking was stuffy and wouldn’t be something I would ever attempt, let alone enjoy. Boy was I wrong. A few weeks ago, I saw mention online about this fab cookbook, The Bonne Femme Cookbook: Simple, Splendid Food That French Women Cook Every Day by Wini Moranville, and, after reading the reviews, I headed to my local Barnes & Noble to check it out. The recipes in there were so good that I {Read More}
Recently, I was making a divine pork dish and could not, for the life of me, figure out what would be a great side that would accent the pork but not steal the show – kinda like a “Robin” to the main entree’s “Batman”. I had one of my culinary “aha” moments when I happened to look at the fruit basket and saw some gorgeous apples just sitting there waiting for some attention. Thankfully, there’s always Ms. Martha to the {Read More}
This month’s Secret Recipe Club not only gave me an alternative to the local takeout restaurant but also one of my new favorite blogs – A Tale of One Foodie’s Culinary Adventures. Erin’s blog is chock full of some seriously delicious recipes that it was so hard to choose just one. I promise that if you bookmark her, you will visit her site time and time again for culinary inspiration. Some recipes I have bookmarked to try are these luscious {Read More}
It never fails – whenever I head to the Italian Market, I always pick up cipollini onions. The same goes for when they cross my path at Whole Paychex or Wegmans. I love roasting them with potatoes as a quick side dish and there’s this tried and true recipe that I can’t believe that I haven’t shared with you yet – Giada de Laurentiis’ Roasted Cipollini Onions. This recipe couldn’t be any easier – blanch the onions, roast them with {Read More}
Wow – first of all, I need to thank all the fabulous people who visited yesterday on my SITS Day – I just was amazed at how many amazing people there were who took a minute to check out Cooking in Stilettos. Thank you thank you thank you! Over the weekend, I checked out the new Wegmans that opened up in King of Prussia and they had a crazy insane sale going on and the berries beckoned from the produce {Read More}
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