April’s Home and Garden

I was never a fan of omelets or scrambled eggs; but once while I was visiting my sister in New England, she made potato frittata (an Italian omelet) for breakfast, and it was delicious. Recently I had a craving for some, and I developed my own recipe. This potato frittata has bacon (I use turkey [...]

By this time of year many of you are harvesting your vegetables and I wanted to share with you some of my favorite ways to use my harvest. Tomato Salad: The most basic tomato salad recipe consists of  chopped plum or other tomatoes, sliced red onions, olive oil, basil, a little water– about a tablespoon [...]

April’s Tuna Casserole If you like tuna, but never liked tuna casserole, I challenge you to try this recipe. I was one of those people. If you don’t like roasted peppers you can leave them out, it still tastes good. I used to put them on only half of the casserole, since my kids wouldn’t [...]

I just love seafood and would probably be perfectly happy to go without meat if I could afford to eat  it often enough. One of my favorites is salmon, and I am always looking for new ways to prepare it. I want to share two of my favorite ways with you. I usually grill it, [...]

Here is the rice pudding recipe I promised. This is my adaptation of a recipe from Alton Brown that I found on foodnetwork.com. Ingredients: 1 teaspoon very finely minced fresh ginger root 3/4-1 cup cooked long grain or basmati rice 1 cup 2% milk (or whole milk) 1/2 cup heavy cream 3/4 cup coconut milk [...]

There are so many flavors and varieties of tea today, that it’s really hard for a tea drinker to get bored. While I drink many different kinds of tea–both for refreshment and for medicinal purposes; I mostly drink good old-fashioned iced tea. Today I would just like to share some of my iced tea ideas [...]