Classic Italian stuffed peppers typically call for meat and bread crumbs. But we took a different route in our food appreciation classes. I liked the idea of using brown rice instead of bread, and since we continue to focus on seasonal vegetables, we ditched the meat in favor mushrooms. A pepper stuffed this way and […]
Classic Italian involtini usually involve thinly sliced veal rolled around a stuffing of breadcrumbs, cheese and perhaps prosciutto or pine nuts. But our food appreciation classes are still focused on the best of the vegetable harvest, so we switched out the veal for thin slices of zucchini. This lesson does involve a bit of patience […]
Not to worry. This isn’t a story about canning, but how to make a delicious hors d’oeuvre out of eggplant by packing it away for a few weeks under olive oil with garlic, basil and red pepper. This particular recipe is one of the all-time most popular on my personal blog, The Slow Cook. I […]
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