Mia Cucina Su Cucina

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 bake [...]

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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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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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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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