Duck Sausage with Foie Gras & Sauterne Wine, Dried Fruits Mostarda, Brioche Toast Mostarda is an Italian condiment that combines sweet fresh or dried fruits with the savory mustard, served typically with meats, cheeses, foie gras, and sausages. It is excellent as an accompaniment to the delicate Duck Sausage with Foie Gras and Sauterne Wine. …

Risotto doesn’t have to be made with rice.  You can actually make it (using the same basic risotto technique) with fregola sarda.  Fregola sarda is essentially Italian couscous, made with durum semolina & toasted for a mottled brown look and delightfully nutty aroma.  The resulting dish has all the same swoon-inducing flavor and smoothness of …

This pocket breakfast or tasty trail treat recipe comes to us from Hannah, 5 Star Foodie’s heir apparent, who’s got a promising future in the blogosphere.  I may have to try this one at home…those granola bars look like they’d have a promising future in my stomach! ——— My name is Hannah and I write a …

Figuette is fig-based fruit drink made by steeping dried fruit rather than juicing or pureeing it. You could consider it a sort of iced fruit tisane made without using any heat.  Because figs are some of the more heavy and strongly flavored dried fruits, figuettes are definitely sipping drinks, but they can be quite refreshing …

Figuette is an chilled fruit tisane made with a base of dried figs.  Traditionally figuette is made with figs and juniper berries, but in this recipe we’ve decided to experiment with other flavors. Calimyrna figs make this figuette a lot lighter in color and flavor than mission fig figuette recipes.  Dried tart cherries give the …

Reader Donna-Marie shares her entry in the “A Chile & A Spoon” Recipe Challenge: a mole stew recipe she came up with using a clever combination of dried chilies, spices, and dried fruit. I decided to do a twist off of an Oaxaca type mole using chicken as the meat and fruit with a cinnamon chocolate essence. …

Crystal Grobe created her blog, Cafe Cyan, four years ago in an effort to share her adventures in food and inspire others to start cooking.  She loves discovering new ingredients and trying fun recipes. ————- When I received a bag of spelt flakes from the always-generous Marx Foods, my mind started racing with recipe ideas.  I started …