Vegetarian : Cafe Fernando – Food Blog

Here's the first dish Vera prepared with the ingredients we bought from the Alaçatı farmers market: Almodrote de Kalavasa. It is a zucchini flan with Sephardic origins and very close to the zucchini au gratin my mother used to make when I was a little boy. Actually, not much has changed since then; I still don't get excited about zucchinis (unless they're fried). So when Vera mentioned she ...

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Here's a post I've been sitting on for a year now. Yes, a year. I know, it's crazy. But by the time I decided to write about it last year, tomato season had already ended. And I just didn't want to torture you with this wonderful recipe in the middle of the winter when juicy, sweet and bright-red tomatoes are nowhere to be found. I was planning to ...

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Peas with marjoram... Simple, seasonal and delicious. First in a series of dishes Baking Fairy and I cooked together. I must have mentioned her here before. She is one of my closest friends. And the one living the farthest. A few years back, she fell in love with Costa Rica, left her job in California in the blink of an eye, bought a rundown cafe in Montezuma and ...

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I would have never imagined that I'd find myself daydreaming about Brussels sprouts one day. It happens to me a lot with ice cream, Nutella-filled mini doughnuts, bagels and Korova cookies, but never with Brussels sprouts. That was until I took a chance and tried the Creamy Braised Brussels Sprouts recipe from Molly Stevens' "All About Braising".

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Can you imagine Martha serving an ordinary soup at a Thanksgiving dinner? Exactly. But that's not the only reason why I bookmarked this mushroom soup as soon as I saw its photo gleaming on page 146 of Martha Stewart Living's November 2006 issue, where she entertained 20+ guests at her farm in Bedford, New York. Did it ever happen to you, too? A recipe screaming "Cook me. Ladle ...

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