by Flora Caputo | Aug 31, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Summer is perfect for outdoor entertaining. And as we have a city house, entertaining sometimes is limited because of space. So we do use the summertime to have our bigger parties, being able to use our large deck and yard in the back for people to sit, eat and...
by Flora Caputo | Aug 27, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
People love my pies. I have spent years reading, learning, testing and perfecting pie making techniques. I have used a pastry cutter, food processor, and simply my own two hands and a fork to make pie crusts. And my favorite thing to make in the summer is a peach pie...
by Flora Caputo | Aug 26, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Are you as over run with garden tomatoes as we are? You have a lot of guilt, don’t you? You have to use them up and enjoy them before they get mushy, right! Well, I am here to help. I’m a helper.Here are my favorite recipes on my blog that use...
by Flora Caputo | Aug 24, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Recently we were vacationing in Michigan, and the farmers markets were overflowing with peaches. It’s the season for peaches, and this is a super-easy pie that I whipped up with some extra peach filling I had that didn’t fit in my traditional peach lattice...
by Flora Caputo | Aug 19, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
This is simply a delicious, light dinner. You throw everything in a pot, cook it up, strain it, cook up some tortellini, and slurp slurp slurp. Delish.This soup does include a technique that my Italian mother uses a lot in peasant Italian dishes-throwing a chunk of...
by Flora Caputo | Aug 1, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
This was my guilty working mom breakfast.You see, my husband went on a trip to Canada-leaving my daughter and I to fend for ourselves for a week. So the first Friday on our own, I had had a very long day at work. My daughter and I were pretty hopeless. “What do...
