Normally as summer winds down I start to hoard summer vegetables. Cucumbers get pickled, tomatoes get stewed (for beautiful things like creamy tomato soup in the middle of winter), and zucchinis get baked. (By the way, while I haven’t tried freezing the chocolate zucchini cake I linked to, I’ve found that in general, baked goods with zucchini freeze pretty well if wrapped tightly.) With the weather being so different here in Kuwait than it is in New York, I’m not sure how long we’ll have access to fresh summer veggies. I guess I’ll wait and see! Instead of hoarding summer’s bounty for later, I’m trying […]...
Vegetable Beef Pie with Cheesy Potato Topping {And a Castello® Moments Round-Up}
Thank you to Castello® Moments for sponsoring this post. I am happy for the opportunity to share brands that I believe in with my readers, and I hope you enjoy my recipe for Vegetable Beef Pie with Cheesy Potato Topping with Weissbier. It’s been a strange summer for a million different reasons. I won’t bore you with the details (yet), but let’s start with the weather. First off, it’s felt like autumn for the past week or so now (especially in the unseasonably chilly evenings), and there were even brisk days in July that felt more like late rather than early summer. Not that I’m […]...
What I Eat When No One is Looking {And a Recipe for Vegetable Medley Stew with White Beans + Chicken Sausage}
As a food blogger, most of the food I make is memorialized in a photograph or a written recipe. Even if it’s less formal than a recipe for a book or my blog – for example, a recipe I share in one of my (very rare) What I Ate Wednesday posts or on Instagram – the vast majority of my food is recorded in some way. Which is, admittedly, a teensy cumbersome sometimes....
Roasted Butternut Squash with Apple, Onion, and Thyme
I can’t imagine Thanksgiving dinner without some kind of squash dish. Pureed is usually my mom’s favorite way to go (she’s very much a traditionalist when it comes to holiday meals, and that’s how her mom always prepared it), but roasted is my preference since I love how roasting brings out the vegetable’s natural sweetness. For this dish I use one of my favorite kinds of squash – butternut! – and pair it with apple, onion, and thyme....
Lightened Up Twice Baked Potatoes
Even though they’re a fairly ordinary vegetable, potatoes have pretty rich tastes: they adore things like butter and look fantastic adorned in cream. The good thing about potatoes is that they taste just as amazing when flavored with healthier things like onion, garlic, and olive oil....
Scalloped Potatoes
Thick-cut potato slices are baked in whole milk with a bit of butter, onion, and garlic to create a rustic side dish that pairs well with just about anything. I like to think of scalloped potatoes as the poor cousin of potatoes gratin and potatoes dauphinoise. For this dish, potato is sliced much thicker, and unlike gratin (which usually has cheese) and dauphinoise (which usually has cream), scalloped potatoes are thickened with flour and milk and just a wee bit of butter. As a result, the dish is a bit more rustic and humble, but also a bit easier on the waistline (and of course every bit as delicious)....
Simply Prepared Beets
Growing up I had weird tastes for a kid. Of course there were a few normal kid-repellers that I didn’t like (such as Brussels sprouts and sauerkraut), but there were also a few that I did enjoy, namely, beets. (Beets are a funny thing…I’ve found that most babies love them, most kids hate them, and most adults will eat them. What a vicious cycle!)...
Vegetable Cream Cheese Dip
You might remember me mentioning my love of everything bagels a while ago; what I didn’t tell you is that my favorite way to enjoy them is spread with veggie cream cheese. Such a perfect pair, those two; which is why when I recently made everything crackers (recipe coming soon!), the natural thing for me to make with them was this dip....
Minestrone
I know, I know, what happened to my soup/stew strike? Lol, I guess that was a lot of big talk (the moral of that story is never believe me if I swear off soup!). This time of year I really can’t stay away too long from a warm and comforting bowl of goodness, plus I’m on the popular mission to empty out my freezer/pantry; since this soup uses a few different canned items, it helped make a small dent in my stash. (Every little bit helps when you’re cleaning out your pantry, right?) And just look at all the goodies in this bowl…it’s chock full […]...
Parsnip Cake with Maple Buttercream Recipe {Cookbook Review: Sweet Magic by Michel Richard}
I think I remember Ina Garten once saying that dessert is the most memorable part of dinner shes so right, dessert is the real deal breaker, the thing that takes an ordinary dinner and makes it wonderful or a good dinner and makes it outstanding. Like most people out there, Im a dessert lover, so I was thrilled to recently receive a copy of Michel Richards Sweet Magic to review. The name of this book immediately drew me in; after reading it, I realized just how appropriately named it is. What else but magic could cause a few simple ingredients to come together so harmoniously?...
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