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NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-07-30

Someone landscaped the lasagne again! 🤣

Overhead view of an unbaked lasagne that has been decorated with green olives to look like grape vines. Also with red onions and tomatoes as flowers.Overhead view of the gardenscape lasagne, straight out of the oven. The cheese is bubbly-brown and the flowers can still be detected after baking.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-07-29

Cocktail hour! Which means it's also time for snacks.

Four nesting hedgehog serving bowls filled with snacks: gluten free crisps, green olives, smoked Italian meats, and a tomato dip.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-07-05

It’s a Fireworks Focaccia Garden for Fourth of July! Hope you all enjoyed the holiday with lots of family, friends & fireworks to celebrate the day. I always enjoy bringing the garden into my own kitchen. 🌿🌱🍃

Red and yellow bell pepper fireworks on focaccia bread dough, before baking. There are golden enoki mushrooms growing on the "ground" with snipped chives for grass. Bell pepper rings dusted with poppy seeds are the flowers. As previously described, unbaked gardens cape focaccia. The flower stems are chives with pumpkin seeds for foliage.Overhead view of the cooked gardenscape focaccia, showing fireworks in the sky make with red and yellow bell peppers. Another view of the cooked focaccia, as described. A red onion flower and kalamata olives are the flowers growing on the left.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-05-06

Croxetti (aka Corzetti) is a coin-medallion pasta from Liguria imprinted with a family coat of arms, a tradition dating back to the Renaissance. Cooks would customize the pasta with a wooden stamp at the request of aristocrats who felt the need to distinguish themselves from the poor.
Here it is served with a walnut-pesto cream sauce with chicken.

Round disc-shaped pasta with a cream sauce, minced chicken, grated parmesan, and some parsley in a serving dish.A pile of round, dry pasta imprinted with coat of arms, and bundles of wheat.Overhead view of the round pasta in cream sauce with minced chicken, parmesan, and parsley in a white serving dish on a tea towel.A silver saucepan with cream sauce and a dollop of fresh walnut pesto in the middle before it is stirred into the sauce.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-01-28

Big salad for girls' night out. That means deviled eggs.

Overhead view of a large garden salad on a brown platter. In the center, a bowl of herb Marcona almonds. The plate consists of squared eggs using an egg-cuber, cucumber slices, radishes, orange tomatoes, purple cauliflower, haricot vert, asparagus, and Belgian Endive filled with farro-garbanzo bean salad, small artichoke hearts.Closeup of the salad, focusing on the squared eggs with dill sprigs and balsamic pearls.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-01-19

No charcuterie is complete without hedgehogs, am I right?

Four ceramic bowls in the shape of hedgehogs of varying sizes, sitting on a wooden cutting board. One has chips, another has green olives and capers, one has smoked meats, and the smallest has salsa.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-01-17

The first of the Wish Farms pineberries have arrived: Pink-a-Boo Pineberry, which taste like a cross between pineapple and strawberry. 🤩 I like to make a pretty salad with these, come Valentine's Day.

A bunch of pale pink pineberries on a white plate with a striped t-towel in the background. Pineberries look like strawberries, but they are white to pale pink and have a pineapple taste to them.
KemptonKempton@mas.to
2023-01-14
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-01-12

Yes, it's me again, playing with food: my favorite Paul Bocuse Mac & Cheese using Perciatelli pasta... and of course another gardenscape to top it off because I just can't resist bringing garden design to the kitchen table.

Mac and Cheese sliced in an open casserole dish, showing the beautiful circular patterns created by the perciatelli pasta in an oval baking dish.Mac and Cheese with a gardenscape on the top, just out of the oven. Vegetables are cut thinly and laid on the top before baking to create a flower garden.Layering the perciatelli pasta in an oval baking dish. With each layer, cheesy sauce is added, and then another layer of the pasta on top of that, until there are several layers of the perciatelli pasta and cheese sauce.Before baking, this is the gardenscape on top of the Mac and Cheese. Thinly sliced vegetables are laid on the top to look like a garden. There are chives, strips of carrots, thin asparagus, shallots, dill, green onions and mini bell peppers.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-01-11

Serious cooks have ways of keeping their spices organized. I had a spice rack built on my pantry door, and they're alphabetized top to bottom. The jars have easy to read labels with a world map on the cap that highlights the area where the spice is most prevalently used. When I immersed myself in international cooking a few decades ago, I felt this was the best way to keep my spices straight.

The pantry door is open in a kitchen with a small desk and a wine storage rack. There is a framed poster on the wall of peaches in a silver bowl. The pantry door is filled with spices on a rack.A selection of spices in individual jars on the pantry door spice rack.Close-up of the spice jar labels on the rack which feature a world map on the top of the cap highlighting the area where that spice is most prevalently used. Pictured left to right: Caraway Seed, Cardamon Seed, Cardamon (white) and Celery Seed.Another view of the spice jars on the rack with a view of the caps which have little world maps on the top. I designed these labels several decades ago.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-01-09

Mise en place: wild rice ingredients with thyme and fennel using spice labels I had to design myself because there just isn't anything else out there that I find adequate for an international kitchen home chef. Served with a paprika pork chop and leek-broccoli soup.

Mise en place: all the ingredients for a wild rice side dish, from the top left: mushrooms, carrots, red onions, celery, more carrots and red onions, parsley. In the center is a bowl of dried wild rice with a bay leaf. In the lower right corner: roasted walnuts for the rice, and to the left, two spice jars labeled Fennel see and Thyme.The full meal, clockwise from top left: a bowl of wild rice in an orange dish, a paprika pork chop on a blue-rimmed plate, and at the bottom, a paprika pork chop with a bowl of leek-broccoli soup on a blue-rimmed plate.A bowl of wild rice ready for serving in an orange dish. There are roasted walnuts and parsley sprinkled on the top of the rice.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-01-08

Well, I still have a lot of work to do to figure this out. I believe I've tried every recipe and technique while trying to master the . I'm getting closer, but sheesh, this is so AWKWARD. I sliced a large sweet potato in half, then sliced each half crosswise and wrapped it around a very large carrot with kitchen string in an attempt to "roll" it... it KIND OF worked? I smeared them with minced garlic-butter and some spices. Tasty, but needs finessing, practice.

Two halves of one sweet potato, sliced hasselback style, then wrapped crosswise with kitchen string around a very large carrot in an effort to "roll" the potatoes and create more defined grooves.These grooves show the spaces that I will fill with garlic butter and spices before baking. The potato is wrapped around the base of a large carrot, as shown to the right.Garlic butter and spices have been rubbed into the sweet potatoes. They are ready for baking now.The finished hasselback sweet potato on a dinner plate with a wide blue rim. Also on the plate is a piece of salmon which has been cooked with a mustard-herb-lemon marinade.
Audio ObscuraAudio_Obscura@mastodon.art
2023-01-08

#pancakes
#breakfast
#PlayWithFood
#HappyBirthday

A pancake with banana, blueberry and raspberries in the shape of a face
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-01-04

Easy sheet pan asparagus: lay asparagus in a single row on parchment paper, cut the cherry tomatoes in half and drop them in the end zone. Bake at 400 for 10-12 minutes, remove and add some mozzarella cheese, then pop back into the oven til the cheese is golden. Serve with basil chiffonade and kalamata olives.


The finished dish of asparagus on a serving tray with roasted tomatoes and topped with basil chiffonade and kalamata olives.Coming out of the oven: a tray of roasted asparagus and tomatoes, with golden mozzarella cheese covering the asparagus. The tomatoes have been halved and are cooked in a row below the asparagus.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-01-02

Mise en place. Condiments to be served with lemongrass-ginger and coconut-chicken curry. One of my favorite winter meals and fun to serve to guests. Included here is a fresh coriander-mint chutney and a lemongrass-ginger paste which can be added to individual bowls according to taste.


Mice en place means "everything in its place." Pictured here from top left, clockwise: chopped green beans, diced pineapple, fresh coriander-mint chutney, fresh lemongrass-ginger paste, carrot spirals and the center: cooked vermicelli noodles. These are all options to add to a bowl of piping hot chicken coconut curry with a lemongrass-ginger soup base.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2023-01-01

We had family visiting this Christmas - first time in SO LONG! So I did a LOT of cooking and it was a blast. Here's our Christmas Day charcuterie nibbles shaped like a wreath.

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A Christmas charcuterie plate filled with smoked meats and a salami "rose" in the center. There are cheese wedges and mozzarella pearls, sliced red pears, pomegranate pearls, olives, cucumbers & cornichons, breadsticks and crackers. It's laid out to look like a Christmas wreath, and the plate is sitting on a table set for Christmas dinner with four silver glass goblets in the background. An overhead view of the Christmas charcuterie plate, with a salami "rose" in the center. I built it to make it look like a Christmas wreath - on a plate.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2022-12-30

It's become a Christmas family-favorite: a French-Canadian Tourtière. Using homemade pie crust, the filling is a combination of ground veal, lamb and bison with spices: cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and cardamom.


The meat pie is shown with a golden crust, and the pie is sitting on a dishcloth with pictures of fruit. In the center of the pie is the cut-out of a moose. I used a moose cookie-cutter to create the shape.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2022-12-24

Burrata, you have my heart and soul. Now.... to tackle the rest of the Christmas Eve meal.

Burrata, an Italian cheese, is in the center of a white oval plate, with a slice of tomato on each side. The burrata is decorated with herbs and crushed red pepper flakes, and everything is sitting on little gem lettuces.Closeup of the burrata, and Italian cheese, decorated with herbs and spices.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2022-12-24

What's cookin'?

Christmas isn't Christmas without deviled eggs, right?

Three photos in this collage of deviled eggs. Top left shows an aerial view of the deviled eggs, made square using an egg cuber. To the right is a closeup of the squared eggs, topped with dill and balsamic pearls. The eggs are cooked, then placed in an egg cuber for 6 hours before soaking in beet juice for about 3 hours, at which point they are sliced in half and made ready for serving. Bottom left is another view of the squared eggs.
NancyWallaceGANancyWallaceGA
2022-12-17

As a garden designer, my work often follows me into the kitchen where I obsessively put gardenscapes on just about anything: salads, pizzas, mac and cheese (pictured), soups (floating gardens), dinner rolls and focaccia. This happens more often during the holidays when I have time off. This is my therapy.

Before baking: a mac and cheese garden arranged on top, created with asparagus for flower stalks, mini bell peppers and tomatoes for flowers, red onion slivers for flowers, and little mushrooms and chives for grasses, dotted with toasted pine nuts for stones. A few olives and parsley leaves adorn the flower stems. The finished product: a baked mac and cheese with roasted vegetables, herbs, olives and nuts.

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