Polenta & Salsa Rounds
Sometimes I think those polenta tubes in the supermarket are a disgrace. It’s like cheating. How hard is it to boil cornmeal for a few minutes and have fresh polenta? But then I have a busy month like...
View ArticleCzech Christmas Cookies!
Christmas just isn’t the same without cookies. I have so many warm, wonderful memories of baking cookies at Christmas – whether it was my Grandma slapping my hand as I tried to steal yet more butter...
View ArticleLemon Bars
Lately I’ve been looking for recipes that use a lot of lemons. This is why: Of course it’s a blessing from the gods of edible gardens to have this kind of bounty – but look at all these freakin’...
View ArticlePerfect Lemonade
I kid you not, this is the best lemonade I’ve ever had. Richard and Violet have been perfecting the recipe over the last few weeks and now it has absolutely the best sweet / tart ratio you’ll find...
View ArticleChick Pea Cucumber Cilantro Salad
I just got home from a beautiful day at the park with a group of excellent friends and even though I was eating the whole time, I’m hungry! I was about to dig into some cheese and crackers when my...
View ArticleDutch Babies!
My very good friend and play-date buddy Kathryn Winslow introduced me to this puffy in-pan pancake recipe back in late March. In fact, it was during her birthday month as I recall. I bought her an iron...
View ArticlePeach And Chick Pea Avocado Salad
When my mom and Violet and I planted a peach tree last September during mom’s visit, we weren’t expecting it to yield fruit the very next summer. But here we are in June, my mom is back for another...
View ArticleTomato Feta Tart
There are many, many tomatoes in our yard right now, and as I struggle to shift from supermarket focused person to ‘seasonal go with the flow’ person (harder than it sounds), I’m in the market for...
View ArticlePerfect Thanksgiving Stuffing
Perfect! What an obnoxious claim. But, like my Perfect Lemonade, my stuffing is perfect to me. It’s my grandmother’s recipe and she always made extra for me. I brought it to Canadian Thanksgiving...
View ArticleFig Blue Cheese Tart
It’s fig season! Our little two-year old tree has been delivering a dozen figs a week for the past month, so I decided to make a tart! Fig Blue Cheese Tart For the crust: 1 cold stick of butter 1/2 cup...
View ArticleVeggie Edamame Pot Pie
I attend a monthly ‘women’s accountability’ meeting where we discuss our careers and how to get where we want to be. Lately we’ve been meeting at the Village Idiot on Melrose where they serve a...
View ArticleRosolje
Violet gave a presentation on Estonian Winter Holidays this week, and needed to share either a song, a recipe or a game with the class. I immediately suggested Rosolje, because well, it’s pink! And an...
View ArticleHalvah Shortbread!
It not quite a white Christmas yet here in Minneapolis, but my sister is bringing on the holiday charm with this fantastic recipe from The Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant cookbook. We’ve always loved...
View ArticleSalt Plank Salmon
My sister Valerie and her hubby Walker got a Himalayan pink salt block for Christmas, so naturally we wanted to try it out at Christmas. A quick Internet search told us that you can either chill it in...
View ArticleIndividual Savory Christmas Pies!
Val and I wanted to make something special for Christmas dinner, so we went to Google and found this festive recipe on BBC Good Food. We made some slight alterations like switching to a...
View ArticleLemon Curd in Five Minutes!
I follow Sue Riedl’s Cheese & Toast blog on Instagram @cheese.and.toast as everyone should, and one day she posted a food porn picture of lemon curd that looked mouthwateringly delicious. And...
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