Archive for August, 2011

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La Rosalia – A Happy Marriage of Watermelon, Aperol and Basil

By Adri | Filed in Beverages, Recipes

Call it a cooler.  Call it refreshing.  And call our weather hot, hot, hot.  For the last few days I have been looking for cool, but not too sweet drinks, and I came up with this one.  In our house watermelon defines summertime, and since it’s still watermelon season, I thought I would use it [… Read More]

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Banana Legs Tomato

By Adri | Filed in Exploring Tomatoes, Garden, Musings

Another in the ongoing series – Exploring Tomatoes This low acid novelty looks a bit like a banana, well, kinda sorta – a 4 inch long bright yellow banana with a point at one end and very pale green stripes running the length of the fruit. Like I said, kinda sorta. This is one dependable [… Read More]

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Golden Copper Tomato Sauce

By Adri | Filed in Exploring Tomatoes, Garden, Recipes

Aren’t they beautiful? And that is just what I grabbed from my garden yesterday morning. Really. I decided to make some sauce with all those babies, and what a lovely thing it is. The color is a knockout. It’s not yellow. It’s not just orange, but a coppery orange that I love. I used a [… Read More]

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LA Times Gravenstein Thin-Crusted Apple Tart

By Adri | Filed in Dessert, Recipes

When you have really nice apples you don’t need anything else. Well, except for some butter and flour to make a tart. When I saw the article in the August 11 edition of the Los Angeles Times about the endangered Gravenstein apple and the accompanying recipe, I just had to give it try. I had [… Read More]

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Acqua di Cedro – a Drink and a Panna Cotta

By Adri | Filed in Beverages, Dessert, Recipes

Move over Limoncello. Acqua di Cedro has arrived. This clear liqueur is made with citron, cedro in Italian (botanical name – Citrus medica.) Poor unattractive and underused citron, aside from its candied peel used for Christmas baking, it is pretty much ignored in my kitchen. Not so however on my dressing table where its essential [… Read More]

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