Ezie and Emil

"The sun brings new beautiful tomatoes everyday" said Melody. Tons of it in fact! I am going to pick up a whole bunch of them from her Organic farm today and plan on using most of them it in what I will call as the Special of the Week Marinara Sauce, but it really is lot more than that. When I was in Boston few months back, I picked up a bottle of a tomato sauce from a famous chefs food market. This bottle had no label or ingredient list. I loved the color which was not sup

During winter months some times writing the menu is no easy task. Finding organic and local produce can be impossible when there is an ice storm going on or the temperature is in single digits. By the time we get to March, I know you all get tired of root vegetables, winter squashes and mushrooms. How ever, months of May- October are completely different. During these months on my usual Thursdays I reach out to the local farmers and ranchers to see what is coming up that wee

CM, a lady of true taste and elegance gifted me a Persian cook book couple of years ago that was given to her by the former Iranian Ambassador to the US. As I am not a purebred Iranian, it is wonderful to have this book as a reference. Sister #1's birthday is right around the corner and she loves this rice dish called Albaloo Polo( sour cherry rice). So I love making cherry rice this time of the year as cherries are in peak right now locally. My family has their own recipe of