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ITALIAN MEAT SAUCE SERVED IN COOKED ONION CUPS

DELICIOUS TURKEY MEAT SAUCE SERVED IN ONION CUPS While cooking our fabulous turkey meat sauce we turn two halves of an onion (flat side down) in the center of our 16″ cast iron skillet, while the saucy mixture cooks. These softened onions absorb the flavors of the other ingredients while transferred their delicious flavor into […]

Mediterranean Meal – Ratatouille, Hummus, Rice, and Salad.

Enjoy a much appreciated and healthy Mediterranean meal. Ratatouille, hummus, rice, and salad. The perfect way to plate ratatouille is shown above, with perfectly cooked brown rice, a serving of hummus accented with a sprinkle of paprika, and a green salad topped with homemade feta cheese/buttermilk dressing and a kalamata olive.   Recipe for Ratatouille […]

Tillie’s Stuffed Zucchini – A Blast-from-the-Past

Tillie’s Stuffed Zucchini is a flashback to the golden era of Grand Ma cooking treats when the kids came to visit. To make this delicious Blast-from-the-Past: Dice and sauté: one onion, one green pepper, four stems of celery, AND cook 1/4 lb of ground turkey, Gently seasoning all with steak seasoning, as they cook. Slice […]

Berries and Bubbles: Cocktail and Mocktail

Berries and Bubbles Cocktail (Alcohol Version & Virgin Version) The exotic presentation with fog rising up out of the liquid makes this the perfect cocktail for all parties. It can be made with liquor or as a mocktail version. Impress your friends with this one, Berries and Bubbles.   ———- Cocktail with Alcohol: Citrus Vodka […]

Pan-Roasted Salmon & “Pasta Claire with Mushrooms”

Pan-Roasted Salmon & “Pasta Claire with Mushrooms” “Pasta Claire” is a dish created by ARTSandFOOD®️ Magazine’s test kitchen. This meal is fantastic, especially paired with flutes of lemon-flavored sparkling water! The salmon (which we split, 1/2 piece shown) was pan-fried in olive oil, starting on the unseasoned skin side then flipping over (the top side […]

Yellow Squash Lasagna – An Original Dish

Yellow Squash Lasagna  This was an experimental dish – we substituted layers of baked yellow squash for the wide pasta noodles. The tomato sauce was homemade and was divine plus the yellow squash by itself was delicious, so we knew the flavors were great before we started and the dish was an excellent taste treat. […]

Meet Alan Z. Feuer, Esquire – Inventor of His Own: Character & Reality

Photo: Alan Z. Feuer, Esquire in top hat and tails, leaving The Pierre Hotel. By Jack Atkinson This retelling by ARTS&FOOD Editor Jack Atkinson incorporates many parts of a story told in the New York Times article “The Secret Life of a Society Maven” by NYTimes staff writer with the same name as the subject, […]

“It’s Déjà Vu all over again!” (Yogi Berra)

After the vaccine distribution and inoculations, the worst of the pandemic seemed to be over. In July we finally took off our masks and the world started returning to pre-covid normality. Then came mid-August and COVID’s Delta variant, cases worsened across the USA. At the time of this writing, the impact on hospitals had become […]