Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder
“San Juan and Beyond” premieres Saturday, April 24, 12pm. Sunny’s recipes take a trip to beautiful San Juan as she cooks up a Puerto Rican meal. She prepares a mouth-watering P.R. Pernil, a slow-roasted pork shoulder that boasts tender meat and crispy skin. To complete this tropical meal, Sunny puts a twist on a traditional [...]
Healthy Casserole Makeovers
In the cold months of a new year, there’s nothing more comforting for dinner than a hearty casserole, whether fresh from the oven or served steaming from the Crock Pot. If you’re like many of us, one of your resolutions was to eat healthier while another may have been to economize. Casseroles let you do [...]
Girdlebuster Pie
from Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities (Hyperion, Nov. 2009)
photographed by Lis Parsons
I confess: it was the title that lured me. Tell me you don’t feel the same. I came across this in a recipe by Elinor Klivans, whom I often turn to for chocolaty solace, in her The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook, which includes [...]
VCU Artists Focus on Local Food
by Cesca Janece Waterfield
An artist described as “hungry” is hard at work on an inventive response to a familiar dilemma. But for many people, hunger is not abstract inspiration: it’s an aching reality.
So a group of graphic design students from Virginia Commonwealth University created Project Winterfood, an innovative art exhibition and benefit opening Dec 2 [...]
Citrus Sparkles in Holiday Kitchens
by Cesca Janece Waterfield
Citrus fruit, like the holidays, comes to life during the cold months of winter. Grapefruit is in season now, along with oranges, tangerines and clementines. A popular mail-order gift, grapefruit’s gem-colored orbs of yellow, pink and red even resemble decorations on a Christmas tree.
And like Santa, it delivers: the tangy grapefruit is [...]
