The Southern Living Seafood Cookbook• (hardcover) The Italian Scampi was amazing—basically just shrimp, butter, garlic, and paprika. A lot of the recipes call for some sort of canned soup, such as tomato soup and pea soup in the crab bisque, or mushroom soup in the lobster casserole, ...
Tuna sour cream filling; Dilly avocado dip; Caraway crackers; Meatball delight. Replace the sour cream with Greek yogurt. The Southern Living Pies and Pastries Cookbook• (hardcover) The almond-vanilla torte looks amazing. The Southern Living Seafood Cookbook• (hardcover) The Italian Scampi ...
We’ve grown Basil for decades, but have branched out from just Sweet Basil to local Italian varieties, such asbasilico Genovese, the type used to make the most famous pesto. This beast is a new one this year—basilico Toscano, or Tuscan basil. It turned out to be even larger than adve...
I make a really good rich and creamy Italian Cream Cake that has coconut in it, but for this occasion I wanted something a little lighter, not quite as rich---and I remembered this old favorite from long ago, one we haven't made in I-don't-know-when, Coconut Cream Cake. And as...
Like this week, when we went to an Italian restaurant. He bypassed the boulanaise sauce, the moradello, the proscuitto, the veal, in favor of a mushroom ravioli with tomato cream sauce that sounded so enticing that everybody at the table ordered it. And it was delicious! Trying to copy...
This is especially exciting because iI also preserved whole blackberries in this concoction, thinking they would be great on ice cream and cheesecake or really any ole cake. But now I think I will also add a couple of boozed-up berries to the drinks. I don’t know if this is actually ...
beating until just incorporated and scraping down sides after each addition. Beat in rum, or as Pam and her girls would say…” Perfume the cream cheese”.Toss raisins with flour and stir into batter. Cover exterior of springform pan with a double sheet of heavy-duty foil to ensure that ...
I made a quick day trip four months after that to have lunch at Galatoire’s and celebrate the reopening of that legendary restaurant. John Fontenot, my Galatoire’s preferee, was living in a FEMA trailer but was cheerful as ever. “Tell people to come back,” he said. “The city nee...
Add the butter and the brown sugar to the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or use a large bowl and a hand mixer). Turn the mixer to low speed and mix until the butter and sugar are combined, then increase the mixer speed to medium and cream for 2 minutes...
Well, yes, I realize that corn is seasonal. But also, really? I mean, tomatoes are seasonal, but that doesn’t prevent Italian restaurants or pizza places from being open year-round. Just add butter!! When I was home for Christmas in 2011, I saw my sister making cream corn and discov...