Food

To Budini, or Not To Budini?

Since it’s Valentine’s day, I’ll let you in on a little secret… This budini is one of my favorite desserts, and one of the simplest recipes I’ve made. I love simple cooking. If you keep baking chocolate on hand, it can be whipped up in no time flat after the arrival of an unexpected visitor or for a spur of the moment craving after dinner!

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A Southern Style New Year’s Day

Black-eyed peas symbolize good luck and prosperity. Some believe that the black-eyed peas represent the “coins,” while the winter greens they’re often served with represent the “dollars.” Eating them together on New Year’s Day is supposed to guarantee many of both in the year to come.

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Growing Arugula As Metaphor

I began learning to grow some of my own food last year when I first moved into my new house and had a backyard in which to experiment. I had early success at growing vegetables from transplants (a young plant from a nursery), especially arugula. Its short growing time, frequency of harvest, and versatility as an ingredient made arugula my new runaway favorite during that first season.

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At My Leisure: Mexican Chocolate Cookies

As you may know, I’ve had a lot of leisure time this week, and I’ve been trying to make the most of it. I’ve been aiming for a combination of active leisure and pure relaxation. One of my favorite flow insprising activities (other than writing) is cooking. I have a tendency stray from recipes adjusting them to my tastes as I go, and below is an example of one such endeavor.

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York Street Restaurant

Welcome to the first installment of My Real Dallas! It’s been a long time in coming due to some of the changes I’ve made around here. I’m glad to finally kick it off, and I’ve decided to start right in my own neighborhood…

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Wisdom of Italian Chocolate

Chocolate and hazelnuts is one of my favorite combinations. So I loved Baci chocolates from the first taste and Nutella, but that’s an entirely different (French) post! I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that you can tour the Perugina factory, which is near Perguia, Umbria.

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