Maia and I enjoyed cocktails and dinner at The Rossi tonight. Maia is rather worldly and has been just about everywhere in this fair city of ours. I love that about her. She can order with the pros. I started with a Ohio Apple Pie cocktail with some Brothers Drake mead because I just recently tasted… Read More Cocktails at the Rossi with Maia
Weeknight meals are awfully quick around here. As fast as I can bring a pot of water to a boil and cook some Japanese noodles (about five minutes), dinner is more or less served. Start thinking about beefing up the East Asian section your spice cabinet (that may already contain some soy sauce) to also include a bit of miso,… Read More Miso Salmon with Soba and Spring Onions
Saturday Hades and I went to a preview tasting of the fall releases from Brothers Drake Meadery. I was a novice to mead, having only equated it with Vikings downing huge mugs after a well-executed pillaging. The Drake brothers (Woody and Eric) brought me up to speed on its history as well as its production. … Read More Persephone’s Drinks Cabinet: Brothers Drake Mead
For those of you who have been following the goings on in Persephone’s Kitchen, you’ll know most important things to me are techniques, tradition and family. I’m determined not to lose the family history that is contained in recipes handed down generation to generation. As a result, Persephone doesn’t always do the cooking. This morning, while the… Read More Sunday Dinner: Lasagna, Meatballs, Sausage and “Gravy”
In putting all the garden to bed for the fall, we pulled up the last of the tomato and pepper plants. We found this “little” guy on one of the pepper plants. He had pretty much cleaned off most all the leaves. Cherub was fascinated and who could blame her. It reminded us of the caterpillar… Read More Hungry Caterpillar
After I dropped Cherub off at school, I knew exactly how I would spend my morning: the new Giant Eagle Market District opened. There had been a definite buzz about it for quite a while, me along with several of my goddess friends had been quietly stalking the place, obsessing over the floor plan on… Read More Kingsdale Market District: If Phineas and Ferb Made a Grocery Store
Weeknight meals aren’t super complicated around here. That doesn’t mean they have to be the same old boring flavors that make you want to tear your hair out. Ok, maybe that’s just me that gets worked up like that. But I digress. Today I’m not going to give you so much of a recipe as
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