Summer Salad with Cherries, Prosciutto, Goat Cheese and Balsamico!

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Our three horses in the pasture enjoying a summer day on the acreage Every now and then I come across a recipe that is a complete and wonderful surprise!  And since lately I’ve been having a love affair with salads that include fresh fruit, whether that be strawberries, dried cranberries, or apples, I’ve just found {Read More}

Tuscany’s Bistecca Fiorentina!

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.. “Beef . . . it’s what’s for dinner” is a famous advertising slogan that most Americans are familiar with.  Grilling beef is part of the American culinary scene, but most Amercians do not associate beef and the process of grilling beef with Italy.  Now when most people think of Italian meat, they immediately think of {Read More}

Rustic Italian Tomato Pie

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In the American South is a popular dish known as “Tomato Pie”.  Neither my husband nor I had ever heard of this before living here.  But lately I’ve seen it featured in Southern Living and on some of the food shows that I’ve been watching while laid up on the recliner healing my back.  We were {Read More}

Wild Mushroom Agnolotti in Basil Pesto Butter

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“You are not to cook for 8 weeks!” and “No BLT’s” stated the nurse at the Carolina Neurosurgical and Spine Center in a pre-surgery class filled with a group of patients and their primary care takers preparing for upcoming lumbar fusion surgery. “Oh my God,” I said to my husband during the class that took {Read More}

Fresh Watermelon Salad

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watermelon is one of the best things to enjoy in the summer!    There is nothing quite like biting into sweet, cold, juicy watermelons!    As a child I remember my father taking us to nearby produce stands where there were huge tin water troughs filled with ice and watermelon.  Wow, just like a cold {Read More}