Dinner, Entrée, Food Memories, Italian, Lunch, My Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian, Wine

Cannellini and Broccoli Pie with Polenta

A simple, inexpensive, tasty, and all-vegetable version of Shepherd’s Pie made with cannellini beans, broccoli and polenta. Continue reading Cannellini and Broccoli Pie with Polenta

jonathantnMarch 3, 2017March 4, 2017Leave a comment

African, Breakfast, Brunch, Creole, Dinner, Place at the Table, Soul Food

Celebrate Memphis Black Restaurant Week March 6-12

Memphis Black Restaurant Week (March 6-12) celebrates the culinary contributions of black-owned restaurants and eateries while reaching out to new customers. Black Restaurant Week also champions the cause for increasing black wealth in a city known for limited economic opportunities for black-owned businesses. Continue reading Celebrate Memphis Black Restaurant Week March 6-12

jonathantnFebruary 28, 2017March 1, 2017Leave a comment

Dinner, Entrée, Food Memories, Italian, My Recipe, Pasta, Place at the Table, Recipe Reconstruction, Vegetarian

Remembering Pasta Fagioli in the Piedmont

A simple dish of pasta and beans takes me back to the warm hospitality of Italy. Continue reading Remembering Pasta Fagioli in the Piedmont

jonathantnFebruary 6, 2017February 7, 2017Leave a comment

Breakfast, Brunch, Entrée, Indian, My Recipe

Eggcellent Indian-Spiced Breakfast Hash

The garlic, fresh ginger, crushed red pepper, turmeric, and mustard & coriander seed amazed us with bold flavors in this hash. Continue reading Eggcellent Indian-Spiced Breakfast Hash

jonathantnFebruary 5, 2017February 6, 2017Leave a comment

Borrowed Recipe, Dinner, Entrée, Middle Eastern, My Recipe, Turkish

Ali Nazik: Smoked Eggplant Yogurt Purée and Ground Beef Stew

Serve the hearty tomato sauce steaming hot over the warm eggplant yogurt purée. The contrast between the hot, meaty acidic sauce and the cooler creamy yogurt purée will delight the palette. Continue reading Ali Nazik: Smoked Eggplant Yogurt Purée and Ground Beef Stew

jonathantnJanuary 9, 2017August 21, 20181 Comment

Dessert, Dinner, Entrée, European, Italian, Mexican, Pasta, Restaurant Review, Salad, Snacks and Appetizers, Wine

Rolf and Daughters

Named a semi-finalist for Best Chef South by the James Beard Foundation in 2011 for his achievements in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, at Fish Out of Water, Philip Krajeck left the beach resort to open his own place in Nashville. Krajeck founded Rolf and Daughters in late 2012 within the Boiler Building of the old Werthan Bag Company factory in the Germantown neighborhood of The … Continue reading Rolf and Daughters

jonathantnDecember 28, 2016December 30, 2016Leave a comment

Dessert, Entrée, European, Hors d'oeuvre, Snacks and Appetizers, Spirits, Vegetarian

Longest Night Party

We invited friends to our Longest Night party to celebrate the Winter Solstice on December 21, 2016 which began at sunset at 4:52 PM, Central Time, in Memphis. To mark the solstice, we turned off all electric ceiling, table and floor lamps in the house and decorated the inside of the house with white votive candles, strings of white electric lights, and white Poinsettias. We placed white candlelit … Continue reading Longest Night Party

jonathantnDecember 22, 2016October 1, 20181 Comment

Bread, Creole, Hors d'oeuvre, Lunch, My Recipe, Side Dish, Snacks and Appetizers, Soul Food

Smoked Pepper Corn Fritters

For this recipe, I used leftover ingredients from other meals in my kitchen: andouille sausage, a jalapeño pepper, a red bell pepper, and scallions. Continue reading Smoked Pepper Corn Fritters

jonathantnDecember 4, 2016October 1, 2018Leave a comment

Borrowed Recipe, Dinner, Entrée, My Recipe, Place at the Table, Salad, Vegetarian

Orange Roughy and Radicchio Salad with Alabama White Sauce

The golden raisins in the salad enhance the City House version from several weeks ago by complementing the radicchio’s bitter flavors and the cool, creamy heat of the Alabama White Sauce. Continue reading Orange Roughy and Radicchio Salad with Alabama White Sauce

jonathantnNovember 30, 2016November 30, 2016Leave a comment