Mia Cucina Su Cucina

Pile a generous scoop of slightly soft ice cream on one chocolate chip cookie, place another on top and take a bite. This is how I love to eat my cookies in the summer.
I have played with many different flavors and they all have worked. Use what ever flavor of ice cream you like. My favorite brand [...]

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I’m a contributing journalist for an online publication call “Magnify You“. Check out the magazine & subscribe, it’s “free”. The June article I submitted is called, “Revitalize with the use of Healthy Healing Herbs and Essential oils”. I am posting it up here so you can read it and try out my fabulous potato salad.
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Wandering in the farmers market on a lazy Saturday morning you see peaches. You gently pick one up and smell it’s sweet mouth-watering aroma, you feel the slightly fuzzy skin, and look upon a golden red orb warm from the sun. You take a bite and feel the juice run down your chin…. this is [...]

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 ”I don’t like pancake! Please don’t ask me make those yucky things!” “But Mom, come on! You never make them. I love them and oh please make them.. Please?” 
This was the exchange between my youngest son and I tonight. He loves breakfast foods and me?… If they went in to some black hole and never [...]

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Now that you have read the title of my blog, let me explain. I have a bunch of post started and I have not finished. I am really good at carrying around a bunch of posts that I write in my head and then struggle to get them out on paper. They sound so good [...]

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Valentine’s Day for me starts in the kitchen and ends, well where ever it ends. With that said, I will tell you something else about me, I love to hear people talk about food. Be it someone on a cooking show, a vendor at the farmers market or an amazing waiter at a [...]

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“If salami is the blog of cured meats, then prosciutto is the great novel.” - Christine Muhlke (NY Times)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wine, cheese, vinegar, meats, fish, vegetables are some examples of foods that are aged.  My original post idea was to write a post on prosciutto and go on and on about its complex, faintly saltiness and how it dissolves into richness on [...]

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My Mother does not enjoy cooking, but she enjoys making any recipe that includes yeast. As long as I can remember she has always made her puffy, tender, huge, yeasty doughnuts. Over time it became a tradition for her to make doughnuts on New Year’s Eve. Friends and family would come and stuff themselves with [...]

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Happy New Year to you all! 
When Hachiya persimmons first came into season my fruit guy, at the farmers market, tried to convince me that I needed to buy some. I turned up my nose and told him they were too sweet and not for me. He smiled gently, gave me a recipe to [...]

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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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