Moonstruck’s Mignonette My recipe for mignonette (a classic French condiment consisting of a combination of vinegar, shallots and black pepper) is based on one that I found as a subscriber to the now defunct “Gourmet” magazine in 2005 and then fine tuned to reflect our tastes and it’s interaction with […]
I come from hearty, hybrid immigrant stock and hail from the Great Plains state of South Dakota. My entire family represents died-in-the-wool, avid (occasionally rabid) football fans or, more specifically, Minnesota Viking fans! I missed that gene. I am a disappointment and an embarrassment to my family and, over the […]
Many years ago I was stationed in Alaska at Elmendorf Air Force Base (AFB) in Anchorage, Alaska on the shore of Cook Inlet as an Airman First Class (just a “two-striper”) in the Air Force Commissary Service (AFCOMS). To say that we were poor is an understatement! My former husband had […]
I am the grandchild and great grandchild of European immigrants and was blessed to grow up in a home where Norwegian, German, Scottish and Who-the-Heck-Knows cultures maintained an environment where food was always “different” but amazing and trying something “new” was both the norm and a culinary adventure! After all, […]
