Mia Cucina Su Cucina

I wrote a post the other day about my oldest son needing a pumpkin for Pumpkin art. I have a picture and it turned out so cute! I will admire it for the weekend and then Monday morning it will be baked and a pie will be made from the sweet flesh.       [...]

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Piccolo 5 Dudley avenue Venice, California 90291 phone 310.314.3222      ¦      www.piccolovenice.com Piccolo is on the Santa Monica-Venice beachfront. Low-key and not easy to find, Piccolo offers something close to true regional Italian cooking.   Recently, my friend and I arrive at 6pm. Vittorio Viotti, owner, and Roberto (BoBo) Ivan, chef, come out of the kitchen and both [...]

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Hebrews 6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Tonight I had the privilege of being a part of a book club conference call. The book being discussed was ’The Answer’ by John Assaraf and Murray Smith. A brief synopsis follows for any of you that have not read the book, so you can understand my post better.  [...]

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I found a few different pumpkin pie recipes many years ago. I baked each one and none of them were really my favorite. One Thanksgiving, instead of looking for another recipe, I mixed and match the recipes I had and this is what I came up with. This pie is the most request pie I [...]

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My oldest son came home on Friday and told me he needed a pumpkin for an art project at school. It also happened to be the weekend of the Calabasas Pumpkin Festival.  Saturday morning started our busy day. Our first stop was at the farmers market. We saw many orange vegtables; cauliflower, carrots, beets and [...]

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I was at Joe’s restaurant, Bar Pintxo, and he was at Joe’s Restaurant. It did not work out so well. I am going to reschedule this week.  On a side note, Spanish styled Tapas are served at Bar Pintxo and it is delicious! if you have not tried it out yet, it is a must!

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I told you all in my last post that I was going to call a successful restaurant owner, Joe Miller, and see if he would meet with me and give me some insight. Well better yet, I saw him for a few minutes and the first thing he asks me was how my business concept [...]

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This past Saturday the weather was a perfect 65 degrees, over cast and clouds were looking like they may drip on us. People were out in droves at the Farmers Market. The nights are getting progressively colder and this sweeten up the carrots, beets and other root vegetables. The sweetness of the carrots from week to week [...]

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With my last blog post, I closed with the following lines, “I inhale many exotic flavors. My senses go wild and I start imagining the different herb I want to go with my basket of treasures. Is it basil, thyme, dill, sage or lemongrass, lemon verbena, mint of many flavors, tarragon, spicy arugula, cilantro… It [...]

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