Today is Valentine’s Day, no big plans tonight. BUT on Saturday night, my cooking club is putting on what we are calling an “elegant dinner”….Kir Royale to start, lobster tail with drawn butter, asparagus with hollandaise, truffle potatoes, fruit tart to end….basically, the works!! I thought a lemon sorbet would be a perfect first course...
Some things in life are just too good. For me, one of those things is Tzatziki Sauce. I think I could literally eat it by the spoonful. Actually, I know I could eat it by the spoonful because I’ve done it! This authentic Greek sauce is amazing as a dip for vegetables and pita or...
The Rustic Tart has been my “go to” dessert this summer. It is so easy, relatively healthy as far as desserts go and really quite beautiful in a rustic way….hence I call it the Rustic Tart!! Use your favorite berry as pretty much any one will adapt well to this dish — trust me, I’ve...
Happy Cinco de Mayo!!!! In honor of this day, my cooking group gathered and cooked up a Mexican fiesta. We made all sorts of authentic Mexican foods (even a chocolate flourless cake spiced with chili powder…amazing). One of my “assignments” was to make shrimp with a chipotle sauce. The most difficult part of this recipe...
In my opinion, pie is best eaten hot out of the oven. And when you eat it hot out of the oven it falls apart into a mess of yumminess. It may not look pretty but it sure tastes delicious! You could be civil and wait for the pie to cool. Then when you cut...
Have you ever had one of those days where you open the refrigerator door searching for something to make for dinner and you just stand there, looking blankly into the void hopelessly lost on what to cook? Well, that happened to me the other night and thankfully sometimes from despair comes victory!! With the few...
One of my New Year resolutions is to make a concentrated effort to create more basics from scratch — mustard, ketchup, maybe even mayonnaise. Applesauce fits right into that category. When my kids were much younger I would make them applesauce quite often. Somewhere along the way of busy family life I stopped. Not sure...
I love everything about raw carrots: I love their taste, I love their texture, but I especially love their nutritional benefits. Did you know one carrot has well over 200% of your daily dose of vitamin A? Carrots also are one of the top beta-carotene vegetables — beta-carotne being an antioxidant that not only helps prevent...
My husband is a huge wedge salad fan. I think he really just likes the bacon bits and the blue cheese but maybe I’m wrong and it’s the tomatoes and iceberg…..nahhhh, it’s the bacon and bleu cheese!! I’m making him a lovely dinner tonight so this afternoon I whipped up a quick batch of my...
It’s a new year and a new start. I know I have been a little (a lot?) lax in my blog postings lately but I am back and will be starting this new year with some yummy, healthy recipes to keep mealtime interesting! I created this recipe sort of by accident. I had an avocado...