Basil and Almond Pesto Pasta Salad
When you turn basil, almonds, parmesan, and olive oil into pesto, and then toss it with pasta, tomatoes, cucumber and both diced and grated parmesan, you have the perfect summer salad. …
Category: Lunch
CategoriesDinner Farmers Market/CSA Featured Lunch Salad Side Dishes Vegetables
Roasted Shallot and Carrot Lentil Salad
Do you know what’s amazingly delicious? Lentils. But not just lentils, lentils cooked in chicken broth with a ton of bay leaves and black pepper. And when they're combined with roasted vegetables and a lemon vinaigrette, well, it makes for a magical salad. …
CategoriesAppetizer Cheese Dinner Farmers Market/CSA Featured Lunch Side Dishes
Italian Smashed Potatoes
These potatoes are so good, you can’t put them down. Now, full disclosure, I would eat these for breakfast, lunch or dinner. I’d serve them to company. I could eat
Chicken Adobo with Radish Salsa
When I fall in love with a recipe, I tend to make it over, and over, and over. Let’s just say I’m the queen of repetition. Chicken enchiladas every night
CategoriesCondiments/Spices Featured Lunch Side Dishes Vegetarian
Purple Za’atar Brussels Sprouts
My mother subscribes to one of those imperfect produce delivery companies that give you perfectly wonderful food, that’s just a little not camera ready. The beets are great, but the
CategoriesBeef Condiments/Spices Featured Lunch
Radish Shoot Chimichurri on Butter Pan Fried Steak
Radish Shoot Chimichurri on Butter Pan Fried Steak The other day when I was waiting to get a flu shot (surely the sexiest opening line ever), I was perusing Instagram
CategoriesAppetizer Dinner Featured Lunch Mexican Side Dishes Vegetarian
One Woman’s Attempt to Love Beans: Instant Pot Black Beans
I really want to like black beans. I want to like any beans. They’re cheap, utilitarian, full of protein and nutrients – and let’s face it – they’re pretty gorgeous.
Fall Fig and Pomegranate Salad
I married into a family that changed the way I looked at salad. Don’t get me wrong, I grew up with great salads filled with colors and flavors. But when
Beet Green Stem Gratin
I threw my back out a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t been incapacitated, but man-oh-man, I’ve been walking like a guilty convict in ankle shackles. *shuffle, shuffle, shuffle* So,
CategoriesAppetizer Breakfast/Brunch Dessert Featured Holidays/Events Lunch Mexican Side Dishes Vegetarian
Orange Ancho Melon Salad with Maple Candied Pecans
A friend of ours went on a spur-of-the-moment trip to Maine and asked if we could check in on her little cats while she was gone. We said we’d be
Maple Chili Blood Orange Salad
Jedd has been making himself a spinach salad every morning for breakfast along with his eggs. Which to me just makes good sense, because greens are refreshing – which is
Instant Pot Pulled Chicken
This recipe couldn’t be simpler or more utilitarian. Who doesn’t need easy chicken that can function in pretty much any dish from chicken noodle soup to enchiladas, from a freezer
Pearl Barley and Tatsoi Soup
If bright bok choy and baby mustard greens had a love child, it would be tatsoi. It’s one of my favorite summer treats, and it’s perfect in this hearty
Bacon Caprese Farfalle Salad
I finally got smart (ish) today. With the CSA kicking into full swing, it’s easy to let things languish or get buried in the fridge. So, I poured myself a
Spicy Thai Noodle and Egg Stir Fry
What can you do with a bulb of kohlrabi, a few eggs, a dozen strands of chives and a handful of peanuts? No, this isn’t the season finale of Chopped.