Olive Oil & Garlic

Cold weather is looming on the horizon and later in the week we may get our first frost of the season, here in Salamanca, Spain.  So, today we took the opportunity to harvest whats left of the basil and turn it into delicious pesto, aka basil bombs.  I chopped a huge salad bowl of basil [...]

photo credit: issyeyre Garlic and olive oil go together like peanut butter and jelly.  A lot of people like to make garlic infused olive oil by putting a few garlic cloves in a bottle of oil, but as Garlicster says, that’s a good way to get botulism poisoning. Garlic flavored olive oil is easy enough to [...]

These round* zucchinis went straight from our garden and into the kitchen. My wife remembers her Italian mother buying them by the dozen when they were in season and then stuffing them with ground meat or bread crumbs, depending on what they could afford at the time.  Here I have stuffed them with a mixture [...]