Ricotta and Pomegranate Toasts with Hot Honey

Hard to Believe That Something This Good Could Be So Easy! Let’s cut to the chase and get right to it. Toast slathered with ricotta, piled high with pomegranate arils, and drizzled with hot honey is one of the best things I’ve eaten lately. In fact, I’m eating a slice right now as I write […]

Milk Bread Sliders – 3 Ways

How About a Platter of These for Super Bowl Sunday? Sandwiches – Oh, how I love them. I think there are 2 kinds of people who eat sandwiches: the first are those who can appreciate if it’s a good one or not, and then there are people like me who think great sandwiches are foods […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]