Mia Cucina Su Cucina

Did you know there are different colored beets and that each color has its own level of “earthy” taste? The “earthy” taste of beets comes from the presence of geosmin, which literally translates to “earth smell”. The following three varieties are key players at my local farmers market: “Burpee’s Golden”, a beet with orange-red skin and [...]

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I’m sure you have all come to a point in your life, that so much change happens that you hardly know yourself or your life. That has happened to me in the past year. I know I have not updated in a long time, but I have shifted so much in my life and business. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 fabulous restaurant [...]

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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 [...]

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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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