I triple-dog dare you to find a summer salad more refreshing than this sweet and savory watermelon salad. Do you know you can turn a sweet fruit into savory by adding just a little salt and acid? Throw some leaves at it, and you’ve got yourself a savory summer salad! Speaking of summer, is hotter …
Last Summer I posted my tired and true pesto recipe. I’ve been making my pesto recipe for so long, I could probably make it with my eyes closed (though I do not recommend doing this). I stumbled across a recipe for Genovese basil pesto in the 2013 July/Aug issue of La Cucina Italiana Magazine. The article …
When I lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan, my old bff and I used to be once-a-week regulars at an Irish pub called O’Duffy’s. She (conveniently) lived across the street and we’d have our standing Wednesday night date to complain to Chris, our neighborhood bartender, about everything happening in our Kalamazoo lives. We’d belly up to the ornately carved bar and drink Bombay Sapphire …
One of my good friends just posted on Facebook today, “it’s soup season”, and I couldn’t agree more. This soup-er (ha) creamy cauliflower soup recipe is from this September-October’s issue of Cook’s Illustrated. It looks so fancy that you feel like you should get dressed up to eat it. I’m writing the recipe pretty much …
The potted basil we planted a few months ago on our balcony is going crazy! Whatever shall I do? Why, make pesto, of course! Pesto is a versatile sauce that can be put on almost anything! Veggies, chicken, pasta, pizza, get pesto creative! We had a meatless Monday last week with roasted veggies (drizzle chopped …
