Chicken, Olive, Orange, and Rye Bread Tray Bake
Really Really Good. And So Easy! Tray bake, sheet pan meal, single pan dinner. Whatever you call them, if you cook, you probably have at least a couple of these easy meals on standby for when you’re short on time and energy, or just don’t feel like spending much time in the kitchen. I’ve been […]
Black Quinoa with Roasted Broccoli and Sweet Peppers
An Uncommonly Delicious Way to Enjoy Beautiful Produce! Sometimes a recipe comes into being because I get a taste for something and can’t get it out of my head until I’ve made it and eaten my fill. Other times, like now, I find myself with several ingredients, decide they’d be delicious if they were combined […]
Chicken Salad with Sesame Tahini Dressing
What Can I Say? I’m Crazy About These Kinds of Meals. Those of you who’ve been following me for years know how I feel about salads. They’re at the top of my list of favorite things to eat. Now I’m not talking about lackluster sad green salads with a slice of a bad tomato thrown […]
Plum Brown Butter Cobbler
Plums in a Cobbler? Oh, Yes! Fruit cobblers can be made so many different ways and most of those will be good. For instance, when I grew up my mother only made cobblers with pie crust and I will always love that type, while I find that a biscuit topped cobbler is only good straight […]
Sweet Potatoes with Lime Chipotle Butter
If You Even Remotely Like Sweet Potatoes, You’ve Gotta Try These! Sweet potatoes can be so boring. Or so sweet they make my teeth hurt. Or they can also be one of the best things you’ve ever tasted. I’ve been on a sweet potato kick lately and these are my favorites. I’ve grown to really […]
Citrus and Zucchini Confit
A New Way to Enjoy My Favorite Citrus! One of my greatest joys, amongst many, of my recent move north, is the discovery of a sensational grocery store. In fact, I’ve never seen anything like it. One of the outstanding departments is the produce section. It is humongous, with a much larger selection than I’ve […]
Cured Salmon with Creamy Lime Sauce
Melt-In-Your-Mouth Deliciousness. Right Here. I was really in the mood for cured salmon. In the past, I’ve cured my own salmon in the tradition of gravlax, but didn’t want the dill flavor this time around and instead played around with adding makrut lime leaves to the cure mix. Curing salmon is simply a matter of […]
Peach, Cherry, and Strawberry Brown Butter Cobbler
Fruits are Baked with a Brown Butter Batter This is one of those situations where I had some fruit, but not enough of any single type to make what I had in mind. I had a couple of peaches, a few strawberries and half a bag of cherries, but I was in the mood for […]