Delaware Girl Eats

When Comfort Counts Go for Pasta, Spinach and Ricotta Casserole

Nothing beats a comfy pasta casserole on a chilly Fall evening One of the most enjoyable aspects of cooking is the creativity it can unleash. Missing a particular ingredient for a recipe? Swap it out with something else. Same thing for an ingredient that you might not care for. Substitution can take the cook down many roads. Another form of creativity is taking a random assortment of ingredients and transforming them into an enticing dish, whether or not it absolutely adheres to the written recipe. Then too there is the selection of ingredients themselves. I enjoy meandering the aisles of... Read more →

Apple Desserts are just the thing for Fall

It's time for apples galore. Here are just a few of my most recent concoctions When I was growing up in Northeast Ohio, apples were a key part of my family’s Fall routine. We had the remains of an apple orchard on our property as did our neighbor next door. He kindly allowed us kids to pick as much as we wanted and hardy a fay went by in apple season that the family didn’t enjoy some kind of apple dish – pancakes, salads, pies, cakes and just unadorned to be bitten into with gusto were all part of the... Read more →