Good food feeds the soul
Is there anything better than fresh, hot, corn tortillas holding meat and vegetables? In my world that’s heaven on earth. The problem is… now that we live in Portugal, getting corn tortillas you want to eat from the store is difficult. And so is finding …
Original published July 2021. Updated August 2026. I didn’t eat rice for thirty years. Yep, not a grain of it, in any form, for three decades because when I was 8 or 9 years old my dad decided I was going to eat the rice …
Originally posted May 2021. Updated September 2026. Pizza pronta! Pizza ready. The hubby and I heard those words ring out more time than I can count over the six weeks we spent as chefs at Casa San Carlo in Umbria, Italy. Wednesday night every week …
Originally posted December 2016. Updated August 2026. Okay, I’m sure you know by now that I’m a foodie. I’ll plan an entire holiday around a food festival. So if you’re on my friends list, you can usually expect homemade food gift kits (or platters of …
Things are changing. I’m transferring Simply Sophisticated Cooking from the WordPress free platform to a self-hosted platform this week. So I’m sorry to say, there will not be any new recipes or posting this week because I cannot make any changes to the blog at …
In the course of the year traveling, I’ve contributed quite a few food blogs to my travel site, Bags & Biscuits. Over the course of the next few months, I am going to rework those posts into Simply Sophisticated so that all of my foodie …
I thought at the beginning of the journey that I would find a way to continue blogging through it. To continue sharing food stories and adventures with you. Between lack of reliable internet in the locations we traveled to and a focus on building a …
Yummy ways to use Thanksgiving leftovers in creative ways for breakfast. All of these look awesome and are a great way to transform those leftovers into a new form. No one will realize they are made of leftovers. Source: Turn Thanksgiving Leftovers Into Breakfast
Wonderful Italian Christmas menu ideas from Jovina Cooks Italian. My mouth waters just looking at the pictures. Happy Holidays Everyone.
Originally published December 2014. Updated August 2026. Our first trip to Italy was back in 2014. We spent 10 days split between Florence and Rome. It was also our first taste of almond biscotti. Biscotti in Italian literally means cookies. They call ‘biscotti’ as we …