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

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

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

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

Borrowed Recipe, Dinner, Lunch, My Recipe, Soup, Vegan, Vegetarian

Smoked Corn and Crookneck Squash Soup

Smoking the corn in this recipe really adds a whole new depth of flavor. Continue reading Smoked Corn and Crookneck Squash Soup

jonathantnSeptember 5, 2016October 1, 2018Leave a comment

Asian, Dessert, Dinner, Entrée, Salad, Soup, Vegetarian, Wine

Wine group celebrates 50 tastings

Our wine tasting and dinner group that began meeting semi-monthly in early 2011 gathered over Labor Day weekend to mark our 50th tasting together. Our tasting format is fairly simple. Members volunteer to host the group usually on a Saturday evening. We typically choose around eight wines to pair with food (usually begin with whites and end with bold reds). In our first year together, we … Continue reading Wine group celebrates 50 tastings

jonathantnSeptember 3, 2016September 4, 20162 Comments

Bread, Breakfast, Lunch, My Recipe, Vegetarian

Tomato Sandwiches with Smoked Corn Aioli

I woke up a few minutes before the Cooper-Young Farmer’s Market opened on Satuday with a determination to buy heirloom tomatoes and corn on the cob to make a tomato sandwich with a smoked corn aioli for breakfast. An episode I watched on PBS’s A Chef’s Life introduced me to the idea. I succeeded in finding tomatoes but no corn on the cob at the market. … Continue reading Tomato Sandwiches with Smoked Corn Aioli

jonathantnJuly 23, 2016Leave a comment

Dinner, Entrée, Hors d'oeuvre, Lunch, My Recipe, Vegetarian

Roasted Vegetable Terrine

Eggplant, zucchini and red bell pepper appear as a flavorful and colorful trio in many dishes, ratatouille especially. I used these hearty vegetables with fresh basil to create a roasted vegetable terrine a few weekends ago. If you’re looking for a fun vegetable dish to cut back on your consumption of meat, this dish requires some planning ahead and isn’t hard to construct. After brushing with a … Continue reading Roasted Vegetable Terrine

jonathantnMay 16, 2016May 24, 2016Leave a comment