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Eggplant Caponata

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Eggplant Caponata       Makes a great dip, delicious on a crusty ciabatta Ingredients ☐ 1 eggplant peeled and diced into ½ ” cubes (if I have zucchini I add it, why not? 😊 ) ☐ salt to taste ☐ ¼ cup olive oil ☐ 1 cup finely chopped celery ☐ 1 onion, finely chopped ☐ 1-2 cloves of garlic ☐ 1 ½ cups of canned plum tomatoes drained and coarsely chopped ☐ 12 pitted green olives finely chopped ☐ ½ cup tomato paste ☐ 2 teaspoons of drained capers ☐ 1 teaspoon minced oregano ☐ 2 tablespoons wine … Continue reading →

Quarantine Pizza: Doh!

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My neighbor, Lily, has cooking in her genes and there is rarely a time I don’t smell something divine wafting from her house. She’s been sending over homemade pizza, and in this time of quarantine and pulling inward like turtles, I came across my memories from the early 1980s when I got my Cuisinart food processor and my therapy was  bread baking. So many years have passed since my hands were in dough, sticky and happy, fashioning loaves of my fave bread recipe for “Medieval herb bread.” How did I do it? Where were the recipes? I visited my cookbooks, … Continue reading →