I know it’s a bit of a cliche for a food blog to have a post about roasted tomatoes, but I don’t care. I’ve had a batch of tomatoes roasting in the oven for about 6 hours now and the smell is drying me crazy. I have nothing else on the brain but those tomatoes…how [...]
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Not Your Momma’s Fruit Salad
At the very least, this isn’t my mother’s fruit salad. She’s not particularly keen on ginger or cilantro, both of which play supporting roles in this spicy tropical fruit salad with pineapple, mango, and honeydew melon. Something refreshing is a nice addition to a summer BBQ, but most of the time, it falls [...]
Tomato Avocado Salad w. Mustard Thyme Vinaigrette
First off, I need to apologize for giving you a headache with the photo. I’m sure there’s a Photography 101 class that tells you not to use a busy background for your photo, but use one I did. And it matched the food to boot! There’s a fashion faux pas analogy I could make here, [...]
Spicy Pickled Carrot Sticks
I’m sort of obsessed with carrots. I eat them every day at lunch. And then again at dinner, sometimes. I think we go through a couple pounds a week.
They’re a healthy snack. They can be used to great effect in either savory or sweet dishes. Mmm… carrot cake. And [...]
Sesame Roasted Broccoli
It’s rare that a vegetable steals the show. In a recent dinner at EOS Wine Salon, the sesame roasted broccoli did just that. It was perfectly cooked, with a salty, nutty sauce.
Roasted broccoli is a staple in our kitchen. The basic recipe follows Cooks Illustrated — put a sheet pan in the [...]
Summer Chopped Salad of Tomatoes and Corn
Fresh tomatoes and corn are two of the summer farm’s greatest treats. The large, fleshy tomatoes are a healthy delight that seem decadent and a bit like forbidden fruit. Corn on the cob, on the other hand, brings me right back to childhood with butter dripping down my chin and kernels stuck between [...]
Giant Butter Bean & Feta Gratin
I’m cursed by a total inability to cook the “magical fruit” from scratch. Every time I try, I end up with rock-hard nubbins that would be better as pebbles on the bottom of a fish tank than dinner.
Fortunately, there is a wide selection of the canned variety at the store.
While I like bacon as much [...]
Walnut Bread with Strawberry Mint Jam
You have to have a ton of patience to make bread and preserve jam. It’s very time consuming but worth the investment (and the clean up!).
I’ve been making the same walnut bread for the last few months as I got frustrated making challah, a traditional braided egg bread served on the sabbath. There is an [...]
Delicious, Cream-less, Cauliflower Gratin
Look at what I got for Christmas!
I guess since we started this food blog people think I’m into cooking or something. Craziness! So I’ve been perusing these lovely tomes, marveling at the pretty photos and just how heavy these books are. Together, they weigh 16 pounds. For a few days I had left them in [...]
Freegin’ Awesome Freekeh
I was in our local Middle Eastern supermarket and came across a box of freekeh. Freekeh is called a green wheat because it’s harvested in early stages, dried, roasted and smoked giving it a green color. Similar to rice, it’s cooked with chicken stock or water but is much healthier. The freekeh I bought says [...]