Posted in citrus, easy meals, legumes, quinoa, sides on Nov 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
I created this side dish for a different, healthy, light choice to replace our usual suspects. If you haven’t jumped on the quinoa(pronounced keen-wa) bandwagon yet, you should. Are you a vegetarian? Do you tend towards high blood sugar? Are you looking to add iron, folic acid, or fiber to your diet? Are you exploring [...]
Posted in bread, chicken, citrus, food to share, herbs, make and store recipes, sauce on Oct 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Is this technically even a pesto? Or just a texture similar to pesto involving pureed nuts, herbs, garlic and veggies. I don’t know. It seems in essence pesto generally refers to basil, pine nuts, garlic and olive oil, but has been expanded to include about a billion other things to create gourmet accouterments. This recipe [...]
Posted in asparagus, citrus, comfort, sauce on Sep 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve always shyed away from hollandaise sauce in restaurants, mainly, because I thought it was a yellow mayonnaise. The horror, I have a life altering fear of mayonnaise. I’m working on it, albeit halfheartedly, since for health reasons, why would one ever attempt to learn to love mayonnaise? That said, I like butter, I really [...]
Posted in citrus, salmon, seafood, Spices, vacation, wine on Sep 8th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m a sauce fan. Love the sauces. On our Florida trip we ate a fabulous meal at Fish Out of Water, where I ordered a delicious white fish – served – to my surprise, in a dark, flavorful broth. Not submerged, but plated in a base of broth. Our family generally hates wet fish. Truth [...]
Posted in citrus, seafood on Aug 2nd, 2009 4 Comments »
Get out of dodge. I’ve finally cooked fresh live lobsters! This has been a want and a dream of mine for as long as I can remember. There’s something so pure, raw, and unadulterated about taking a live ingredient and making it yours from start to finish. It’s completely primal. Now I’m not a hunter, [...]
Posted in broccoli, cheese, citrus, food to share, herbs, vegetables, zucchini on Jul 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Our picnic fare for this week’s Deer Valley Free Concert featured fresh foods from the Farmers Market. We had fresh broccolini, fresh zucchini, fresh radishes, Lemon Pepper Chevre and Garlic Chevre from Drake Family Farms, and fresh Asiago Cheese Bread from Volker’s Bakery. After a super hike up Holly’s trail leading to mid-mountain of The [...]
Posted in citrus, food to share, herbs, make and store recipes on Jul 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Last night I saw the Wallflowers perform at the Red Bute Gardens in Salt Lake City. I thought I was getting a beautiful picture of our picnic setup, but it was super bright and I guess I couldn’t tell it was all shadowy at the time. To the left is a fresh chive hummus I [...]
Posted in chicken, citrus, herbs on Jun 30th, 2009 No Comments »
When I write about a recipe that isn’t really a recipe, I get very self-conscious. Sort of how I feel about why anyone would you want to read the footnotes. If it’s not important enough to make it in the text, why add it at all? I’m guilty of this. Whenever a book has a quote after the [...]
Posted in chicken, citrus, food to share, sandwiches on Jun 16th, 2009 3 Comments »
Planning to feed a large number of people can be daunting, but to me it’s the epitome of the culinary Olympics. Athletes not only are driven to strive towards the ultimate challenge, but they also get an amazing rush from the event and the preparation leading just up to the event. It’s the butterflies in the [...]
Posted in citrus, herbs, horseradish, pasta, seafood on Jun 3rd, 2009 2 Comments »
Ina Garten, aka Barefoot Contessa, is kind of my culinary hero. I like so much of what she does. Last December I saw an old episode of her show on the Food Network doing a Roasted Shrimp dish. We’ve always been boilers of shrimp, but I had to give my hero’s way a shot. I’ve [...]
