Follow Diane Morgan’s lead and make the succotash with whatever vegetables and herbs are in season.
Recipes
Create a Chocolate Strawberry Royale Champagne Cocktail
Food Schmooze® cocktail contributor extraordinaire Anthony DeSerio created this signature cocktail using Tempus Fugit creme de cacao, the best creme de cacao on the planet. He also taught us an old bartender’s trick to ensure that the sparkling wine doesn’t spill over the champagne glass when you assemble the cocktail at home (use his trick with any champagne cocktail).
The Chocolate Bar Getting Raves!
Since I have a couple of chocolate squares every morning with my breakfast, I’m always on the lookout for a dark, low-sugar chocolate bar. The new bar that is driving people wild is one called Marou, featuring cacao beans in Vietnam. The exclusive online distributor in the U.S. is www.darkchocolateimports.com. —Faith Middleton
Easy Cocktail: Lemon Meringue Pie Sour
It’s all in the shakin’, baby.
Slow-Cooked Salmon with Spring Vegetables
Along with April’s springtime showers comes the anticipation of freshly dug baby carrots, tender shoots of asparagus, young spring leeks, and sweet English peas at the farmers’ market. It’s time to celebrate the season with a dish that goes together easily for a weeknight supper and is festive enough for a dinner with friends.
Ham with Brown Sugar and Mustard Glaze
Everybody’s got a favorite Easter ham. Faith remembers her mother’s supermarket ham with a Coca-Cola glaze, Alex grew up eating his mother’s “Betty Crocker-style” ham studded with cloves and pineapple, Chris swears by the smoked hams from Nodine’s Smokehouse, and Mark, he’s a Honey Baked ham guy. Given the classic roots of all of those hams, […]
