Guys!! I am so excited!! I made a galette!! OK I know what some of you are thinking. This lady makes Thai curry paste from scratch yet she is super excited about a free form pastry. Here’s the thing… we all have our Achilles’ heel. And mine is rolling out pastry dough. Pie crust, laminated…
White Chocolate Mousse with Strawberries and Strawberry Balsamic Vinegar
I should have known better than to sing the praises of the gorgeous spring weather we’ve been having! Today was cold and rainy. Absolutely miserable. But not snow at least, with apologies to my friends west of me. With rain at least I can tell myself that April early May showers bring May flowers and…
Spanish Inspired Spiced Chicken with Pomegranate and Vinegar
People it has been a week. The kind of week that I am pretty sure was actually 2 weeks. Or maybe 3. Or even 4. John left us toward the end of spring break for a conference in China. That was the Wednesday before last. He is still not home. OK, to be fair he…
Mixed Greens with Apples, Dates and Gorgonzola: OXO Salad Dressing Shaker Review
I cannot remember the last time I was so excited over a relatively small, uni-tasking kitchen gadget. OXO contacted me all the way back in the spring about receiving one of their new Salad Dressing Shakers, to review and give away as part of their Blogger Outreach Program, but there was a snafu somewhere in…
Sun-Dried Tomato and Mushroom Bean Stew
I was mourning our nice weather, because I had just acquired Crescent Dragonwagon’s Bean By Bean: A Cookbook: More than 175 Recipes for Fresh Beans, Dried Beans, Cool Beans, Hot Beans, Savory Beans, Even Sweet Beans! and felt like nothing in it was weather appropriate. It is not yet fresh bean season,but it was unseasonably…
Warm Mushroom and Farro Salad with Skirt Steak
Can anyone guess what my favorite new ingredient is?
Warm Farro Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Pepitas and Queso Fresco
I had been looking for farro for 8 months, ever since I got Heidi Swanson’s Super Natural Every Day: Well-Loved Recipes from My Natural Foods Kitchen because she uses it in a great looking soup. I was intrigued by the grain, but for some reason–don’t make too much fun of me–it totally escaped me that it…
Balsamic Glazed Orange Roughy with White Wine Braised Mustard Greens
No one in my family is sick. This may not seem like an earth shattering revelation, but it is for me. We can GO places, you know? The grocery store (check), the local ice cream shop (check), the ohmigosh it is 60 degrees and sunny out park (check), playdates (check), ballet practice (check), swimming lessons–oh…
Wild Mushroom Agnolotti Drizzled With Balsamic Cream Sauce
One of the perks of being a Food Buzz Featured Publisher is the opportunity to try to new products. This particular opportunity is double perked, so to speak, because Buitoni Pasta, the maker of the product in question, is giving away All Clad pots and pans–and to enter all they ask is that you create…