Portobello mushrooms have great consistency and texture and can please even the most hard-core carnivores.  Simply baked Portobellos are already delicious all on their own.  Add tofu ricotta on top and it gets more interesting as you create a sophisticated hearty meal to serve on any occasion.   I am thinking as a lovely dinner entrée or as an appetizer if you cut up each mushroom into four pieces. Tofu in its raw state is qu...

These beautiful little potatoes have been coming from Oregon to my local supermarket for the last two weeks.  They range in a medley of colors and the grocer has them in baskets where you can just grab and mix whatever hues you want. Seems like I spent more than a few minutes picking out the prettiest potatoes thinking how lovely they would look on my dinner table. Actually, it was probably not more than a minute since G reaches h...

My husband J, a francophile at heart, has been asking lately that I use herbs de provence.  He seems to miss them when I don't use them for a while.   I had to buy zucchini to reshoot a previous post from a few months ago and the greens and yellows looked so beautiful that I bought extra to roast with the herbs.    The morning light brought colors of pale white and faint purple through our side window, so after J took our toddle...