About Savorra  Jamie DeCaria, Founder of Savorra, is on a quest to eat more real food Join me on my quest to eat more "real food"! I passionately believe in the health benefits of eating food made from fresh, "real" ingredients and I want to share this with others. I am not a gourmet chef, but I have learned a lot about cooking along the way. And the big secret is ... it's not that hard!
On this site you will find SIMPLE recipes for turning fresh ingredients into tasty meals, in less time than you might think.
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Stir fry is a handy technique to have in your repertoire. Like my favorite Savorra recipes, stir fry is fast, plus it can be a tasty way to turn an assortment of on-hand vegetables into a meal. I made this stir fry last week, just based on the ingredients we happened to have on hand, and it turned out to be one of the tastiest I have made. As an extra bonus, it is not spicy at all so it will be great for guests if you have one non-spicy [Continue reading ...]
I am a recent convert to making all of my own salad dressing; once the people of Barcelona showed me how low maintenance it could be. Several years ago, I had read a Martha Stewart article (pre-jail Martha) about making vinaigrettes and tried my hand at making a few. They were tasty and really not that difficult, but still required some pre-planning so I didn’t always do it. Then in 2008, Ed and I spent a week in Barcelona and discovered the simplicity of just pouring the oil and vinegar [Continue reading ...]
My Grandma Harrington has taught me many important lessons over the years: how to play poker starting at age 6, how it can be funny to tell the same stories over and over for 30 years, and how to make the best meatballs. Recently, she also taught me how to use 89 year-old woman charms to talk your way out of a speeding ticket, but that is another story. Back to the meatballs. I loved these meatballs growing up; so once I started cooking for myself, I asked Grandma to [Continue reading ...]
It was about one year ago when I heard: “Wait!” “Stop!” “What are you doing?!” I looked up, surprised by the chorus of shocked responses coming from my mother, father, stepmother, and stepfather. Apparently, they all had one more piece of wise parental advice to pass on to me: Don’t throw away your Thanksgiving turkey carcass. So I listened, unconvinced, but it was four against one so what could I do? I plopped the mangled turkey remains into a pot of water, simmered away for several hours, and stuck the [Continue reading ...]
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