Mia Cucina Su Cucina

    This is a method of preserving that I found fascinating. But, I do not see myself trying it out. Happy Easter to you all. Most people over a certain age in rural Ireland recall life before electricity. My neighbors in rural County Cork remember baking soda bread in a bastible (basically a Dutch oven) over an [...]

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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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Church and State Bistro (213) 405-1434 1850 Industrial St., Los Angeles, CA  90021  Church & State has to go down as one of the more unusual restaurant pairings in Southern California: owner Steven Arroyo, best known for casual clubby places such as Cobras & Matadors, and chef Walter Manzke, renowned for his meticulous French- California cuisine at Bastide, Patina and L’Auberge [...]

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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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Chicken fingers, pasta, pizza, hamburger, hot dog, grilled cheese the basic children’s menu no matter where you go. Italian, Sushi, Mexican, American styled restaurants and they all have the same menu for children. These food selections are fine for your children if you don’t mind them eating fried chunks of unidentifiable, but supposedly edible, chewy [...]

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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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I wrote a post about this subject a couple month back, but it has once again been brought to my attention, that people need to do their part so that when the good times are back again we will have our favorite restaurants to go to. I know of one restaurant that recently had to [...]

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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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In last week’s L.A times food section (Jan. 14, 2009) there was an article about what was going to be served at Barack Obama’s first supper. Since I am such a Foodie, these things excite me .  The menu for the meal planned for this evening: What’s on Obama’s menu? The inaugural lunch presented by the [...]

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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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