Trinkets

about me

I take great comfort in cooking and preparing delicious delicacies for my friends and family. I was an event planner before turning to real estate so I love having parties, planning parties, and going to parties! I am a Zaar junkie. I must cook and create and read about food. It's my outlet. I prefer savory dishes and tend to shy away from baking.


My recipes posted here are not all quick and easy (although some really are). I prefer the rich tastes and flavors which usually only come from dishes that require nurturing. However, I am also like most full-time working mothers of pre-teens who are also the president of the PTO and live in the country with chickens, dogs, cats, and fish...TIRED and sometimes in need of simple, fast and easy. That's why I like to make ample supplies of my spaghetti sauce, extra chicken pot pies and baked zitis, and lots of soups for the freezer.

My motto:
If you would learn the secret of right relations
look only only for the divine in people and things
and leave the rest to God.

And, I like this one, too:
To eat is neat
but
to dine is divine!

Favorite Foods:

I love:
homemade pasta
Chickens in the BGE
grilled quail
the aroma of beef roasting in the oven
Sushi
Roasted vegetables
strong coffee
ooey, gooey, stinky cheese
garlicky escargot
Putting together unique salads in our steamy summer months and soul warming soups in the winter
Sweetbreads
Foie Gras
iced tea with fresh mint
artichokes
Real French Napoleons
ginger
French onion soup oozing with hot, melted Gruyere
Creole tomatoes and herbs fresh out of the garden
mango
Beluga Caviar
potato salad
Cyrus, Alexander Vineyards
days without humidity
Smoked Salmon
Proseco

My fave restaurant list:
*Bistro 110 in Chicago
*Damarco's in Houston
*Little Palm Island in the FL Keys
*Chuy's in Austin
*Mike Cusack's King Salmon Lodge, Alaska
*Nobu for sushi and Norma's for breakfast in New York City
*Abel's Lobster Pound in NorthEast Harbor, Maine
*Blu in Vail
*Gary Danko for dinner and Josephine's for breakfast in San Francisco
*Lizard Island and The Silky Oaks Lodge in Australia
*Sunshine's Killer Bee cocktail on Pinney's Beach, Nevis, W.I.
*Bud & Alley's, Seaside, FL
*The Steamer, Kiln, MS
*Mona Lisa in Hendersonville, NC
and always the big search for others!

Ratings:
I know the ingredients I like to cook with and can pretty much decipher whether or not I can make a recipe work for us before cooking it, thus my ratings tend to be high.
***** means we all loved it and I didn't HAVE to change anything. Although I usually always add my own personal touch.
**** means it was very good but needed something.
*** means the recipe has potential but is not there, yet.

God bless America!

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