Jake's Salmon

When our friend Jake visited, he fixed...

Baked Salmon with Scallions and Capers
...with a lettuce, radish, and avocado salad dressed with lemon vinaigrette; sliced fresh Kalamata ciabatta bread.

Winter Vermont Pot Roast

It's freezing up here. Nothing warms the heart or the belly then a good pot roast simmering on the stove for 6 hours.

Cheese in Threes

"Grown-Up" Mac 'n' Cheese: Cavatappi pasta, Gruyere cheese, Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese, jalapeño peppers, nutmeg, topped with Romano tomatoes and homemade bread crumbs.

Steamed Broccoli Florets with Gorgonzola cheese dressing.

Plus, a butter lettuce and tomato salad/garnish with a splash of pesto vinaigrette, and the obligatory St. Pauli Girl in a frosted mug.

Thanksgiving--NOT

From an undisclosed location out West: Buffalo Wings with Gorgonzola cheese dip/Autumn Vegetable Medley with Rosemary and Nutmeg/Butter Lettuce salad with Pesto Vinaigrette dressing.





First up, the pesto. Pine nuts, basil, Parmesan cheese, garlic, olive oil, fresh ground pepper.









Next, the Veggies: carrots, butternut squash, fennel, parsnips, and of course the fresh rosemary and fresh ground nutmeg. Fantastic!













Gorgonzola cheese dip for the wings: gorgonzola, Worcestershire sauce, milk, mayo and sour cream.


On the table. Using the pesto, oil and lemon juice, I made a pesto vinaigrette dressing for the salad. St. Pauli Girl in a frosted mug. Mmmmmmm...

ThanksGIVing!

Let's see... well I was very pleased that there were so many vegetables! And they were delicious!

I made baked acorn squash stuffed with a rice/tofu/mushroom mixup - some may recall a similar dish from TG '04 

One of my favorite parts of the evening was when desert time rolled around. We made coffee and there was baileys... just like the X party... I was thinking of you all... xoxoxo

Thanksgiving 2008

A small dinner but just as delicious. Note the traditional early nibble off the turkey breast to appease the famished, followed by creamed spinach and parsnips, sweet potatoes and cranberry

Memories of summer breakfasts

Sometimes we wonder why we bother to go out to eat

Tuscan Pork Roast

Sunday dinner at Casa Carbone

This is pre-cooking... but such a fabulous harvest, we had to share!

Fall is here in Vermont

Fall colors from the garden

The Basics

Ziti with Grandmom's special gravy, a family favorite.

Back from the Motherland

Salami with fresh figs, our first meal in Chianti

A Potluck to Remember

Crostini with farmer's market tomato and summer squash toppings, southern style potato salad, Alex's Grandma's apple topping with coconut and cinnamon, shortbread and cookies, spiced zucchini, corn on the cob, fruit salad with blackberries, red wine, chocolate, quinoa salad with fresh roasted corn, beans, and red peppers; farmer's market grapes, lentils with lemon and chard, and wasabi-almonds. 

... and dessert

pear tart.
pears from our trees
cornmeal crust
lots of sugar and butter

breakfast...

Amir's favorite game is playing "where are the ingredients from...."
from our garden:
-basil,potatoes, chard, rosemary,zinnias....

Nutritious & Delicious

Green Quinoa Salad

warm quinoa

olive oil

pesto

finely chopped onion

lots of thin sliced celery bits

baby greens sprouts

cubed raw tofu

cubed avocado

Very Refreshing!

Arrivederci

Next stop, Tuscany !

Simple Pleasures

Fresh picked garden tomatoes, garlic, onions, basil, salt and pepper drizzled with olive oil and vinegar

Two Classics from Casa Carbone

Mama Rusty's roasted vegetable rice medley and Papadam's minute rib eye with fresh picked roasted veggies.

The Doctors in the house

Young and restless Drs. Carbone and Martin, assisted by pee boy,  operating on a succulent patient at Thanksgiving circa 1986.

Famous salt baked snapper night

When the fresh fish is in,  calls go out to the family. Salt baked snapper right out of the oven

Baked ZITI with some friends

Nothing better than dinner w/friends and family. Tonight was baked ziti, salad, garlic bread, wine, and heineken. Everything an ital meal should consist of. Dessert was available, but we had no room left in our stomachs. Not a bad thing.

What you get when you mix a Seattle Farmer's Market with a camp stove and a delayed ferry to the San Juan's....

The ingredients of the entire meal were purchased at a Farmer's Market in Seattle, to which we added some salt and pepper and a little butter.

Sure looks yummy, yummy!

Genesis

What do you get when you mix a love of food, cooking, creating, and sharing with a few glasses of good wine and some enthusiastic family members? This Blog, apparently. 

Here is one of the delicious pizzas made at casa Carbone this past Sunday, August 3rd.