Posted in dessert, food to share, herbs, make and store recipes on Sep 6th, 2009 5 Comments »
I haven’t had grasshopper pie since I was a kid, and I’m not even sure what prompted me to remember it. It may have stemmed from my minor obsession with mint. Mint tea, mint drinks, minted lemonade, dark chocolate and mint, mint ice cream, mojitos, you name it. Fresh mint has a very strong, earthy [...]
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 comfort, food to share, herbs on Jun 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
A few months ago we had dinner at a restaurant here in Dallas called The Porch. Our friends ordered the fried cheese appetizer. I am all about fried cheese, any time, any place, any cheese. But this was truly exceptional. We all agreed, and I vowed to attempt a home re-creation. The menu lists the [...]
Posted in bread, easy meals, food to share, herbs, make and store recipes, olives, pasta on Jun 20th, 2009 1 Comment »
This post will wrap up the party food and I’ll be back to our regularly featured programming. I have an exciting plan to recreate an appetizer I had at The Porch Restaurant tomorrow, so tune back in for that. The end of the party preparation had me totally feeling like the Iron Chef. There was [...]
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 [...]
Posted in beef, herbs on Apr 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
This was the week for revisiting recipes I’ve already blogged about. Maybe I just wasn’t feeling creative, but I think I just wasn’t feeling on my A-Game. In any case, we had a great week of food, and luckily all the repeats turned out better the second time around. In early March, I blogged about [...]
Posted in breakfast, ham, herbs on Apr 12th, 2009 No Comments »
So you know you spend too much time in the grocery store when… Last week I got busted by the Kenneth type grocery sacker doing a little dance to the bad elevator mix in the laundry detergent aisle. Our neighborhood grocery is two stories, so while I was alone in the aisle, “Kenneth” was looking [...]
Posted in chicken, citrus, herbs on Mar 31st, 2009 No Comments »
I’m dying for summer. Borderline hysterical. I just feel like a better person with warm sunshine on my skin. Plus my Aerogarden is being totally overwhelmed by my mint. So I dubbed tonight mojito night and planned out a Cuban inspired chicken dish to complement. Not that I’ve been to Cuba, but I drove through [...]
