I don’t like wasting things especially something as delicious as the cherry-flavored pound cake I made for the Hidden Heart Valentine’s Pound Cake in my most recent blog post. After cutting out the brilliant fuchsia hearts for the middle of the pound cake I found myself with a heap of scrap pound cake on my…
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Savory Blue Cheese Cake {appetizer}
I have always loved blue cheese. I have fond memories of dining out with my family as a child at the local steak house and diving into the blue cheese dressing when the salad dressing caddy was delivered to the table. I never thought twice about a casual 1000 Island Dressing fling. Nor was I…
Spicy White Bean Chicken Chili
I love the elegance of tone-on-tone dressing. It seems so chic, so ‘put together’. In that same vein when I discovered this recipe for ‘White Chili’ in a family recipe collection, I instantly loved the aesthetic of coordinating a dish chromatically. White-on-white, blanco-en-blanco, with a pop of discreet, muted chile green. I felt confident I’d…
Spicy Roasted Poblano Red Lentils with Sausage
Have you made a dish that is so good you don’t want to share it? There is plenty for everyone but you don’t care? This Spicy Red Lentil dish is one of those. It could not be simpler, faster to prepare and the flavors are rich and soul-satisfying. There is a digital switch after the…
How to Make Peppery Ham Stock
Do you make your own stock? Maybe after the holiday turkey carcass is picked clean? But do you make Ham Stock? Funny, recipes don’t call for it so we don’t think to make it. But after trying this recipe I’m sure that will soon change. Over the holidays we enjoyed a succulent natural, spiral-cut ham…
The Best Winter Salad and Delicious, Healthy New Year Recipes
Did you ever see the movie ‘Willy Wonka’? Do you remember the scene when the contestants and their accompanying parent made it through the madcap start of their journey to arrive in the Wonka inner sanctum with the chocolate river, edible foliage and Oompa Loompas? Willy Wonka told them they could eat anything they chose…
Shortcut Cinnamon Roll French Toast with Satsuma-Vanilla Syrup
When I attended college, I moved out of state to do so. My grandparents were an hour away but I knew no one else. I quickly met a number of local friends and was swept up into their weekend outings and meeting their families, having no social obligations of my own. One friend invited me…
