I would argue that you can have all the makings for a stellar salad, worthy of a James Beard award or something equally lofty, but if you dress it with some (...)
We have a fabulous Indian restaurant in the town where we live, close enough to walk to. We eat there a couple times a month, and when we want to eat at home (...)
Warm farro salad tossed with asparagus, fava beans, balsamic roasted tomatoes and goat cheese. Going back and forth between the mountains and the Bay Area this (...)
Lightened version of childhood potato gratin classic. Today’s post is about the food. I mentioned in an earlier post that I would be focusing on root (...)
Secret Recipe Club: Pumpkin bread loaded with dried cranberries and chocolate chips. The older I get (and by the way, I’m still young) the more I gravitate (...)
Pasta tossed with swiss chard, lemony ricotta cheese, and parmesan cheese. Bacon lardons are optional. Have you ever thought about the words we borrow from (...)
Classic piadine Italian flatbreads, with a dusting of Parmesan cheese. Instructions provided for making it at high altitudes and at sea level. We’re here now. (...)
Secret Recipe Club: Pasta tossed in a velvety vodka-tomato-cream sauce. Elegance and rustic comfort all in one dish. It’s time again for our Secret Recipe Club (...)
Cucumber and tomato salad with kefir and dill dressing
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Fresh summer salad of cucumbers and tomatoes tossed in a kefir dressing with minced onion, dill, and chives. We’re off to Chicago tomorrow for an annual (...)
Making your own mascarpone cheese might be the best mascarpone cheese you’ve ever had. I met mascarpone later in life. I knew about it, sure. I had witnessed (...)
Quiche is the perfect brunch or breakfast for dinner dish, and Quiche Lorraine is one of my favorites. But the traditional version from the mountainous (...)
Raisin and orange zest soda bread for st patrick's day
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On St. Patrick’s Day, I figure we’re all Irish. I must have some Irish in my background. Somewhere on a bright green branch of my family tree of English, (...)
Today is a shared post day. Lana of Never Enough Thyme, part of our Progressive Eats group, is busy recuperating from some surgery and needed a little help (...)
Carrots simmered in a glaze of tangerine juice, butter, ginger, brown sugar and cocoa nibs. Carrots, with their graceful, tapered bodies, create such an image (...)
Herbed goat cheese soufflé with honey and lavender
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Fluffy goat cheese soufflé with honey, dried lavender, thyme and Parmesan cheese. Aloha! We’re back from a week on Maui, and I swear I’m still on Maui time. We (...)
Easy dessert of lemon-coconut shortbread bars for a casual nibble or throw in the picnic basket. Yes, I know I promised another recipe for my Roasted Balsamic (...)
Baked sweet potato ‘fries’, spiced up with cardamom and cinnamon. Served with super-easy maple-mustard dip. Unless you have a staff to insulate you from the (...)
“Anyone over 60, raise your hand!” I looked up to my husband and said, “That’s you!” And then after a moment, I realized, oh wait, that’s me too! Ack!! I still (...)
Hearty, rustic soup of roasted eggplant and tomatoes with a Parmesan crostini. You might think that since this is the second recipe I’ve posted with eggplants (...)
No-bake pie that tastes like a margarita, complete with salt from the pretzel crust! Sometimes I beg my husband to go to a Mexican restaurant just so I can (...)
Figs macerated in brandy and poached in honey, orange juice and anise, served with a quenelle of whipped mascarpone flavored with orange. Some foods were born (...)
If Tomato Caprese Salads are all the rage throughout the summer, and they are, why not take it a step further and turn it into a Tomato Caprese Tart? Total (...)
Secret Recipe Club: Easy black bean soup cooked in the slow cooker! Eliminate the Chipotle Cream drizzle to veganize. I was hit with flu this week with all its (...)
