Halvah Berry Bread Pudding with Tahini Drizzle
A Superb Recipe from an Outstanding Cookbook! I am lucky enough to have a wonderful family who showers me with new cookbooks every Christmas. It has become a tradition and I spend the new year carefully combing through the books. I treat new cookbooks like novels. I start at the beginning and read everything […]
Grape, Orange, and Pomegranate Salad
There is No Single Star in This Show. I’m back with another very good salad. This one only contains fruit. While I commonly add fruit to many salads, there just happened to be no need for anything else in this one. The flavors and textures were perfect as is – sweet, tart, a little earthy, […]
Pinkglow Pineapple Sorbet
Pink Pineapple is a Thing. I Did Not Know This. Yep, the holidays are over, winter is definitely here, and I’m making and eating sorbet. If this seems weird to you, here’s my way of thinking. After all the indulgences of the holiday season, a bowl of refreshing sorbet is the perfect end to a […]
Salsa Macha with Cashews and Nigella Seeds
Life Changing May Sound Like an Overstatement. It is Not. To say we’ve been eating a lot of this lately is not remotely telling the tale. Ever since making this for the first time a few months ago, I’ve been tinkering with it and each version has been better than the last. We can’t get […]
Bacon, Tomato, and Blue Cheese Main Course Salad
Bacon is Never a Bad Thing, Right? I eat a lot of salads, which comes as a surprise to no one who knows me. But when I refer to something as a salad, I’m not talking about what most people think of when they hear the word salad. For instance, last night I cut up […]
Dried Cherry, Clementine, and Black Sesame Cake
Deceptively Simple, But Wow! Who doesn’t love a loaf cake? Whether it’s banana bread, a lemon drizzle cake, etc., I find them to be irresistible. There’s just something about a loaf cake that feels homey and comforting. I’d been thinking about making one with dried tart cherries * for awhile and decided to add them […]
Beet Farro Salad with Yogurt Sauce and Cumin Oil
How About Giving Beets the Star Treatment? Taking a break from my Thanksgiving planning and preparations, I had a couple bunches of beets and decided to really go to town and make them the focus of the meal, rather than the side dish. Roasted beets don’t need much in order to be delicious. A little […]
Roasted Squash with Chipotle Pomegranate Dressing
How’s This for a Stunning Thanksgiving Side? I ran into some pretty winter squash at the grocery store and seeing as this time of year puts me in the mood for these deeper flavors, I bought a couple and gave some thought to what I wanted to do with them. While soup is always an […]
Spinach Pasta Lasagna with Creamy Béchamel and Spicy Pork Ragu
A Special Lasagna (with a Very Long Title). When we think of lasagna, the classic dish of dried noodles, red sauce (with or without meat), ricotta, and mozzarella instantly comes to mind. And there’s certainly nothing wrong with that. But I had something else in mind when I put together this version. For the sauce, […]
Cheese and Quince Dinner Rolls
Dinner Roll or Afternoon Bun? Well friends, I’m here with another recipe for rolls using my Milk Bread recipe as the base and I think it’s worth discussing why I continually come back to this recipe. I bake a lot of breads, all different kinds. Bread is never an afterthought in my meals. If I’m […]