Salad of Black Rice, Beets, Apples, and Aged Cheddar

There’s Some Really Good Stuff Going on Here. Here I am with another rice salad. And what a beauty it is. Black rice lends itself so well to salads that I’ve kind of been hooked on it for awhile. It has the perfect texture for a salad because it doesn’t ever get mushy when I […]
Black Rice Salad with Roasted Oranges, Lemons, and Butternut Squash

As Delicious as It is Beautiful. As you’re undoubtedly aware, I have a great fondness for citrus fruits. Whether they be fresh and bright, candied, or roasted in order to deepen their flavor, I turn to them again and again. For this dish, I roasted a couple trays of sliced oranges and lemons until they’d […]
Rice Salad with Roasted Lemons

I Don’t Think I Could Love This More. I love a good rice salad. And by good, I mean one that’s loaded with flavor and full of interesting ingredients. For this one I sliced up a lemon, drizzled it with a small amount of olive oil and roasted it in a hot oven. I love […]
Bacon, Potato, and Cheddar Tart

Bacon, Onions, and Crème Fraîche Play a Role in This Beauty. I found myself with an abundance of big baking potatoes due to a mistake with my grocery order, so I started thinking about what to do with some of them and decided on a tart. I began by making up a batch of my […]
Cornbread and Chipotle Panzanella

Leftover Cornbread Makes a Great Bread Salad. I had a big slab of leftover cornbread and was in the mood for panzanella, so why not? I knew I needed to treat the cornbread differently than I normally treat the bread in my classic panzanella because it is so crumbly. I cut it into cubes and […]
Royal Corona Bean Salad with Preserved Lemon and White Anchovies

So Easy and So Very Delicious. I cooked up a pot of Rancho Gordo’s Royal Corona beans and used some of them to make this salad. I’m a fan of all Rancho Gordo beans, but these are my favorites. It’s so wonderful to have a pot of cooked beans on hand when you get to […]