Summer offers numerous opportunities for entertaining, from picnics at the beach to backyard barbecues, from cocktail parties with little bites to potluck neighborhood dinners. I love looking at newly released cookbooks to get fresh ideas for summer entertaining. I’ve selected a few new cookbooks with recipes offering exotic flavor combinations, suggestions for using the unusual vegetables in our CSA baskets and tasty tidbits to serve our families and friends.… Read more
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Negroni Cocktails
After reading Gabrielle Hamilton’s memoir, Blood, Bones and Butter, I have been craving some of the food and drink she writes about in her book. In the memoir she talks about drinking Negronis during her annual summer trips to Italy. It was only a matter of time (a very short amount of time in fact – I didn’t make it to “official” summer) before I made my first Negroni cocktail. It did not disappoint.… Read more