Sometimes you just need to eat a salad for dinner, and this one also works well for a buffet or brunch. I love fresh fruit on salads, and the berries add layers of color and sweet-tart flavor. If you don’t have a trifle bowl around, any large, glass bowl will work to showcase the colors–or, [...]
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Onion and Rosemary Tart (grain free)
The opening day of the Farmers’ Market was this weekend, and with the fridge now stocked with spinach, baby lettuce, mushrooms, cheese, eggs, and wine from the market, I was inspired to use the last of the storage onions to free up some space. I am so ready for weekly market trips. This tart is [...]
Grilled Asparagus with Meyer Lemon Dressing
Growing up in the Midwest, one of my favorite places to hang out in midsummer was the asparagus patch at the back of our huge garden. The asparagus itself was not the draw, as by that time the slender shoots had given way to billowing, fern-like shrubs, dotted with tiny red berries. In that dense [...]
Sesame Eggplant with Sriracha-Honey Drizzle (grain free)
This is a dish I have been thinking about making for a long, long time, but only recently got around to testing it out. I don’t know why I waited so long, as it was even better than I had imagined in my food-brain. One of my biggest “bad” food cravings is for sesame-anything from [...]
Greek Stuffed Mushrooms
I hate football. Let me not mince any words about that. Not a fan of the game in any form, so I don’t really “do” the Super Bowl. However, I still manage to get sucked into the national hype enough to make some kind of party-type foods to eat while the rest of the country [...]
Winter Tomato Soup with Chard
Winter is the time to break out the home-canned tomatoes for a pot of soup. Tomato soup is probably my favorite soup, year-round, but I really crave it in cold weather. This version has lots of vegetables, including a swirl of Swiss chard ribbons added in at the end, plus some smoky flavors from the [...]
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