When Your Kid Only Wants Pasta
This week, I thought I’d talk about the horror of many an omnivorous parent: What do you do when your kid only wants to eat pasta? I like pasta so much that I used to wish I was Italian when I was little, but I try not to carbo load every day. Coming up with [...]
Quince Slices You’ll Love
Quince is definitely not the easiest fruit to work with but if you’re willing to put some effort into it, it’s worth the eating reward. I’m finding I like this darn hard fruit more and more. I keep getting grocery bags full of seasonal fruit from various friends and just got one with the largest [...]
Summer Tart Reinvented
Fresh figs, creamy goat cheese, caramelized onions and arugula- who can go wrong with such flavorsome items found on many a menu. The perfect base for this summer vegetable tart is a buttery ground almond crust brushed with rich berry or fig jam. Finish the picture drizzling a balsamic or fruit reduction sauce and DaVinci [...]
Sautéed Beets & Greens with Feta
For weeks and weeks, I’ve had beets and other greens coming out my garden ears. We’ve eaten more greens then I can remember all sorts of ways. The other night, Greek food was sounding flavorsome so the greens turned Greek. Quick and simple, and perfect for a light summer dinner with a chilled glass of [...]
Using the Harvest: English Peas with Romesco and Mint
English Peas with Romesco and Mint, a.k.a, Guisantes Tiernos al Romesco is a tantalizing tapas dish.
Dancing with Romesco
A classic Catalan roasted vegetable sauce, Romesco can dance with many things. I first used it with grilled vegetables and a drizzle of cooked down balsamic vinegar. Then for breakfast one day, I slathered it on toast topped with an egg coddled to a poach. It found it’s way to grilled chicken and was even [...]
Using the Harvest: Magenta Pasta with Beets
The backyard garden is bursting with beets! I’ve mostly roasted them, juiced them and enjoyed them raw (grated) in salads. Searching for something different, I remembered my friend Marilyn, a.k.a. the Xotic Doc sharing a pasta dish with beets. Delighted and surprised I was by the dazzling color and earthly sweet flavors in this dish, [...]
Using the Harvest: Chickpea and Spinach Stew
I harvested the last of my Bordeaux spinach the other day and wanted to make something special. You see it blessed us with abundance for about six weeks. It just kept growing and growing. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten as much spinach as this year. This dish comes from José Andrés with a Moorish [...]
Greek Leek and Greens Pie
A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky to attend the annual Big Fat Greek Party at the home of fellow blogger Hank Shaw and his partner Holly Heyser. They requested side dishes to go with roasted goat, so I knew I needed to take my Greek Leek and Greens Pie. I developed it several [...]
Hubby Cooks: Samosas
Kathy at SacPie had her first pie night in January where the hubby made samosa pies for the first time. He’s at it again, this time altering his recipe to include late seasonal tubers: parsnips, turnips and squash. The aromas while cooking were deeply satisfying, reminiscent of roasted chestnuts, Mediterranean herbs, and vegetables in the [...]
