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Lemon, Love, and Olive Oil Cookbook New Favorite Cookbook

How many recipes do I want to make from Lemon, Love, and Olive Oil by Mina Stone?

This many!

Each sticky note represents a recipe I want to try. I've decided to cook through this excellent book, as a winter cooking project. Right now, I have one of the Boston Public Library's copies. I will add a copy to my cookbook collection. I have to decide, as I work with it, if I need the Kindle or print edition. 

Do you have a winter cooking project or a cookbook you should pull out and cook your way through?

First up was this quick, easy lunch of Tuna Salad with Fennel, Apple, and Parsley. Ed and I love the flavor twist and lighter notes from the fennel and apple that offset the heavier tuna flavor. 

Watch this space for more from this book!

 

Words: Penny Cherubino Photos: ©2021 Penny Cherubino

Misty Morning Along the Mall: Photo Tales & Quotes

The statues and people faded into the mist along the Commonwealth Avenue Mall this morning.

"I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog."
Om Malik

About Photo Tales & Quotes: We keep hearing that people miss our cover photos that ran for years in the Back Bay Sun. That assignment was to provide a photo that showed what the week was like in the neighborhood. Often the photos illustrated favorite quotations. Photo Tales & Quotes is an occasional offering to our BostonZest readers featuring photos along the same theme but taken wherever we happen to be.

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photography: © 2021 Penny Cherubino  

We'll Toast December 2021 with Cabernet Franc! It's Louis de Grenelle Saumur Rosé

This month we'll raise a glass to the wonderful people from Cornwall's in Kenmore Square with a glass from the bottle of Louis de Grenelle Saumur Rosé we included in our last take-out order before they closed until March 2022.

While Ed loves going to Cornwall's for their excellent draft beer selection, Penny appreciates a pub where she has a nice selection of wines that match the food. This one is among her favorites, there or at home. 

Louis de Grenelle Saumur Rosé is a 100% Cabernet Franc sparkling rosé from the Loire Valley. We've enjoyed this wine in many fine-dining restaurants over the years.

We dined on the patio out front all summer and fall and, last winter, made regular visits for take-out. This year we learned that they were closing for the season. Here is the announcement on their website. We'll miss them but support them in doing what they need to do.

Trying wines from different places, made with different grapes, and produced by different methods adds spice to our monthly ritual. Since 2007 we have raised a glass of sparkling wine to greet each new month!

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photos: ©2019 - 2020 Penny & Ed Cherubino