Zoë Tsoukatos is carrying on the candy legacy of her Greek ancestors, who immigrated to Baltimore in the early 1900s and sold chocolate from a pushcart. Today, Zoë, 28, and her brothers, Pantelis, 31...
This dish is not actually a casserole at all. It’s a modern take on the flavors of old school green bean casserole – the kind made with cream of mushroom soup and fried onions out of a can. As a result, it’s a crowd please, satisfying the traditionalists and the devotees of fresh and local food.
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Ingredients – Green Beans and Sauce
6 cups green beans with ends trimmed2 tbls. olive oilSalt and pepper to taste1 tbl. unsalted butter¼ cup...
This salad tastes great and it also looks very festive, thanks to the crispy green lettuce and bright reddish pink pomegranate seeds. And a note on those seeds: removing them from the pomegranate might sound daunting, but it’s really very easy. Promise.
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Ingredients – Salad
9 cups leafy red and green lettuce, torn into bite-sized pieces1 pomegranate¼ cup pepitas (pumpkin seeds)3 ounces...
A local sausage maker provides brats and sauerkraut to Oktoberfests.
Once again, Binkert’s Meat Products (8805 Philadelphia Rd., 410-687-5959, binkerts.com) is gearing up for a season of Oktoberfests. The company—founded in 1964 by German immigrant Egon...
The quote on The Oceanaire Seafood Room’s website—“To eat an oyster is to kiss the sea on the lips”—says it all, especially as the leaves change and the temps drop. “The oysters get colder this time...
I was living in Florida a few years ago, feeling a little homesick for Maryland when Bon Appétit magazine landed in my mailbox with a feature on soft-shell crabs, including a recipe by Baltimore...
It’s oddly comforting, in our low-fat, low-salt era, to see beefy people lined up to buy pork sausage.
Before any major food holiday—but especially Easter, which falls on March 23 this year—...
Hot cross buns add sweet tradition to Lenten season.
One a penny. Two a penny. Hot cross buns. The childhood rhyme resonates today, even though the sweet rolls cost about 70 cents each now. The Lenten bread, which dates to Pagan times before being...
Everything old is new again—at least, when it comes to hot chocolate. The wintertime drink has been around for thousands of years, dating to the Aztecs, Mayans, and even older civilizations. We...
This French dessert is a classic finale to a holiday meal.
The holiday season is all about succumbing to sweet traditions–candy canes, sugar cookies, and, yes, even fruitcake. But what could be more tempting than a buche de Noel? Translated "yule log,"...
