Mia Cucina Su Cucina

Wishing you all the best this Holiday Season! May it be filled with good health and prosperity. It has been a pleasure and a blessing to share my foodie thoughts & recipes. May you have a Happy, Happy Thanksgiving.

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Steve, my boyfriend, recently shared a story about one of our favorite restaurants and it’s interesting history. He worked with a colleague, Joe Miller, and had no idea at the time that he would become such an influence in the restaurant industry. Steve worked in the restaurant business from 1978 to 1990 and along the [...]

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S. Irene Virbila, LA Times restaurant critic, wrote a wonderful article about supporting your local restaurants. I so enjoyed it that I wanted to pass on the article to my readers and include my take on the subject. With everyone focusing on the “tough” economic times, everyone seems to be staying home and not eating [...]

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My boys insisted that they “needed” bananas when we were shopping last week. The bananas sat in the fruit bowl, first they were green, then they were yellow and today I noticed they were brown. My boys were on their way to bed when I took the bread out of the oven. They tried to [...]

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This morning I was chatting with a friend on Face Book. Last week I made my favorite Sticky Buns (a thick cinnamon filling and a topping of rich, sticky sauce sprinkled liberally with pecans) and mentioned that I had made them on FB. So today she said,” It is def(initely) soup weather here. Although I am [...]

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In this post I am featuring Topinambour (Jerusalem Artichoke) since they are a winter vegetable and so few people really know much about them. I have included a definition and explanation about how they taste. Topinambour (Jerusalem artichoke) has no relation to Jerusalem, and it is not a type of artichoke, though they are in the [...]

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I worked in culinary retail for many holidays and every year at Thanksgiving the retail location would put out a list of recipe suggestions. On their list there would be a different cranberry sauce every year. I would try it out and inevitably I would not like it. In fact, I really did not like [...]

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This past Saturday I wandered into the Farmer’s Market to get my weekly list of vegetables. At my first stop I wanted plums and was told, “Sorry it is the end of the season on plums.” I bought apples and grapes. I went to the next vendor and was looking for heirloom tomatoes and cucumbers, [...]

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The Election Post You Have to Write stuffchristianslike.blogspot.com  November 4, 2008 It’s Tuesday day night and the Presidential Election in America isn’t over yet. My friend Lisa in Oregon just reminded me though that there’s a law that says all Christian bloggers have to write one of the following two posts the day after an [...]

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