Author: Caterina Borg, Good Food Gourmet
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The Honey Lovers Chocolate Cake
Recently, I was invited to a party where the host suffers from food allergies. Between the ingredients she can’t eat and those she would not eat, I found myself wondering what decadent dessert I could make and bring with me that she would consider trying. Of course I could have made a regular fruit salad…
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Getting It On With Pasta Puttanesca
One of the easiest and most satisfying of all traditional Italian pasta dishes has to be spaghetti alla puttanesca. Apparently, this dish became popular in the 1960’s but was actually created by mistake in the 1950’s by a man named Sandro Petti, co owner of a well known Ischian restaurant called Rancio Fellone. As the…
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Almost Paleo Sticky Rice Pudding
The cold weather has each of us yearning for comfort foods, and one of the most classic desserts of all, is something many of us grew up eating. In our family, rice pudding was not a dessert we ever planned to make. It was one of those items that we made when there was leftover…
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Mulled Wine Gelee (Jello) & Apple Pie Ice Cream
The concentrated flavors of mulled wine with all those spices slowly steeped with some sugar and wine is not only good for drinking, but also makes a great chilled dessert — especially when it is paired with a complimentary ice cream, which in this case was the ever popular apple pie ice cream. When looking for…
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Scandinavian Glögg Wine
Many years ago, I tried the Scandinavian mulled wine called glögg for the first time and simply loved it. It’s a wonderful warm drink made from using a dry or fruity red wine that is steeped with spices and dried fruit. It’s such a treat to enjoy while keeping warm around a holiday bonfire or…
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Jacques & Julia’s Chocolate Souffle Roulade
I have always been a huge fan of Jacques Pepin and Julia Child, so it was no great surprise that I loved to watch their cooking show together which aired on PBS. I remember watching the episode where they made this particular chocolate roulade, and made a mental to try it. If you have never…
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Apple Pie Ice Cream
If you ask the general public what their favorite way to eat apple pie is, I am sure their answer will include a large scoop of really good vanilla ice cream. This delicious method of serving pie came to be known as Pie a la Mode. The person who created this unique and delicious serving…
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Salted European Pralines For Any Season
The French created a delicious way to eat nuts coated in a crystallized caramel that they call pralines. These are the predecessors to the southern version of pralines (pronounced prah-leens) that we know and love, but the european version does not have any butter, milk or cream in the recipe. This delicious snack is made…
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LAST HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY FROM BLOSSOM FINE FOODS
Blossom Fine Foods makes extraordinary Gluten free desserts and is another great company that I found over a year ago at the Natural Foods Expo East in Baltimore. The company diligently maintains its gluten-free certification through the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG). Their testing and standards match the current FDA regulations, while international standards for gluten-free…
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HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY FROM FISCHER & WIESER
Fischer & Wieser is another great company that I came across at the Fancy Food Show in NYC. This company’s roots are from 1928 as a family run operation by the Wieser family who began to produce jams and jellies from the fruits grown in the family’s 60 acres of orchards in the Texas countryside.…
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HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY FROM HONEY RIDGE FARMS
Our second giveaway basket this week is from Honey Ridge Farms and begins today! Honey Ridge Farms sources local honey from several regions of the United States to produce a line of specialty honey cremes, vinegars and grilling sauces. High quality, locally sourced raw honey is whipped to delicious perfection. The addition of fruits and…