The Deli Dish

  • Balsamic vinaigrette

    Pink’n Plum Balsamic Vinaigrette

    This plum balsamic vinaigrette is perfect for dressing up a simple salad, using our youngest offering from Vecchia Dispensa – a deliciously tart and flavorful balsamic. Aged in oak barrels, … Continued

  • Olive Oil Club

    Alluring Blackberry Vinaigrette

    Ingredients: 1/2 cup Extra Virgin Olive OIl 1/2 cup Moutere Grove Olive oil 2-3 tbsp Agrimontana Blackberry Preserves 1 tbsp Green Peppercorni Dijon Mustard salt to taste Directions: I love … Continued

  • Spring Olive Oil Change and Sale

    Kyle’s Summer Tarragon Vinaigrette

    Ingredients: 1/3 cup Orduna Txakoli Vinegar 2/3 cup Moutere Grove Olive oil 1 tbsp Edmound Fallot Tarragon Mustard 1 tsp Tupelo honey salt and pepper to taste Directions: I love … Continued

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    “Citrus Burst” Vinaigrette

    Ingredients: 1/2 cup Extra Virgin olive oil 1/2 cup Orduña vinegar 2-3 tbsp Majhoub Piquant Orange Slices 1 tbsp Marash Pepper Salt to taste Directions: I love to mix my … Continued

  • The Historical Twists and Turns of Traditional Pasta

    “Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti.” —Sophia Loren

    “And art is always about relationship — to the material, to the self, and to the world in all its chaos and intrusion, its terror and its glory.” —Jeanette Winterson

    Weird things happen when I least expect them. I was lying in bed, lamenting having had my third surgery in two months and working my way through the Sunday New York Times, when I came across a piece by Jeanette Winterson buried in the back of the Book Review.

    “Art,” she wrote, “is always about relationship.”