Recipe for a Modern Comfort Food
With the ingredients of light coconut milk and cashew butter, this is rich without being heavy, as well as very deliciously flavorful without being at all spicy.
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Cauliflower Hash Recipe with Spiced Cashews
This is both different and delicious, however it is enhanced with some ingredients not in everyone’s pantry: curry leaves and garam marsala, both shown in photos below.
Birthday Cookie Recipe (Cut out Sugar Cookies with Butter Frosting)
This recipe dates back to my childhood. Making them instead of cake for birthdays in the shape of numbers is such a fun and delicious tradition…
Amazing Caramelized Bacon Appetizer
These cartelized bacon appetizers, sweet and sticky with just a hint of heat, are intensely terrific, if a bit over the top.
Almond Cake Recipe
This is an easy to make, simply straight-forward dessert, that has depth of flavor, but no bells and whistles. It is perfect to offer on a winter Wednesday at noon.
Recipe: Hot Pepper and Feta Omelette
The filling for this omelette is great to have on hand for a quick, fabulous meal anytime. It would also be great warmed up and put on crackers as an appetizer.
Recipe: Grilled Cheese with Red Raspberry Cabbage
This is your basic grilled cheese filled with red cabbage sautéed in raspberry jam. It made instant converts of the most strident skeptics.
Recipe: Asparagus Egg Salad with Radish
This is something we tried for the first time over the holidays. We really liked it, and we decided that it feels very French. It is perfect for a light lunch
Recipe: Sri Lankan Sauce for Fish
This sauce is dynamic and delicious, and takes a bland protein (we used halibut) into another stratosphere.
Recipe: Winter Salad with Eggs and Homemade Dressing
This most recent rendition of a winter salad loosely merges ideas from a French salad nicoise (but no potatoes, tuna, or anchovies please) and a Greek salad (with no oregano or grape leaves please).
Recipe: Vegan Pesto with Fish and Brussels Sprouts
This is a great dish for any guest that needs both a dairy-free and gluten-free meal. We like it very much too and make it for ourselves without those dietary restrictions.
Book Review: Dinner with Edward
This sweet, yummy book is a great way to spent an evening. It is a short, loving memoir of the transformative effect their dinners together has on both of them.
Recipe: Farinata with Butternut Squash
Farinata is a street food in Tuscany made out of chickpea flour, which is a source of protein for vegetarians and vegans, and has the additional advantage of being gluten free.
Recent Food Around Here
Here are some photos of food we’ve enjoyed recently. Many meals were made trying new things, but you’ll find these classic recipes from this blog as well:
Thanksgiving Links 2016
Here are live links to past Thanksgiving features on this blog as well as those to Christian Science Thanksgiving services.
Amazing Butternut Squash
My husband got an amazing butternut squash harvest this year. Some are over 4 feet long…
Recipe: Tomato Tart
This is amazingly good, and remarkably straight-forward to put together. We made it with the last of the homegrown tomatoes from the yard.