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With Spain in the World Cup finals, I feel compelled to share my recipe for paella. Paella is the quintessential hands-on dish. There’s prep work involved, and it’s always fun to enlist a few friends for chopping and wine prior to cooking. My husband and I make our big paellas outside, either over a big fire pit [...]
Thank you, culinarythymes.com reader Brenda, for bringing this great recipe to my attention. You see, in our online archive, gremlins had replaced certain fractions with Greek symbols, so Brenda emailed to get the correct quantities. Well, upon further inspection, I found sentences spliced and paragraphs missing. Blame it on a server switch not so long [...]
I made taramasalata recently and thought I’d share… At a recent dinner party, Greek fare dominated the menu. The meal started with taramasalata on crunchy pitas and a crisp white wine. I’d forgotten how addictive the creamy spread can be. Mirroring the consistency of a good, homemade alioli, but eggless, taramasalata is unctuous, tart and salty from the [...]
Here’s a recipe I’d like to share for Super Protein Veggie Salad. Inspired by a tired new year’s resolution to lose weight, this salad is vegetarian, but gets its protein from cannellini beans, wheatberries, nuts and the yogurt/cottage cheese salad dressing. The dressing stays low in calories and fat because it contains no oil, but it satisfies [...]
Got any tips for selecting and cooking asparagus? The California asparagus harvest is underway and the folks at the California Asparagus Commission have some helpful information to share about this favorite springtime veggie.? At the market, select spears of similar diameter so that they cook evenly. Tips should be compactly closed. Peak selection in markets [...]
