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meatball pizza
Friday night dinner needed to be quick and fun, and my remaining meatballs and sauce helped accomplish both goals. I used leftover naan bread as the pizza base (pita or prebaked pizza rounds would have...
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white chili
After a week of meatballs, I was ready to move off red sauce but still wanted another one-pot dish that I could stretch through a week. I decided to try a white chili recipe I found on the Pioneer...
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Easter ham
Lucinda's marmalade-glazed ham was the centerpiece to my Easter dinner this past weekend. It was very simple to make and the second cooking temperature worked perfectly with the balsamic-glazed...
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carrot cupcakes
For Easter, I tried the carrot cupcake recipe in Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook. The recipe was very simple—the most tedious part was finely grating a pound of carrots, but it gave the cupcakes a...
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easy picnic dessert: lemon curd
I needed a lemon dessert that was easy to transport for a birthday picnic. Our lemon curd recipe worked perfectly—I carried it in a cold bag with ice packs and then assembled tartlets at the picnic,...
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homemade egg rolls with duck sauce
My favorite cooking buddy was back in town recently and we decided to give some Chinese dishes a try. We had the most fun making and rolling these egg rolls. The recipe—My Mother's Famous Chinese Egg...
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Cocktail O'Clock: Aperol Spritz
A friend introduced me to Aperol several years ago -- she and her husband drank a lot of it on their honeymoon to Italy. While similar in color to the more well-known Italian aperitif, Campari, it...
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WTF: What's That Food? It's Rosehips!
I discovered these radish-looking beauties during a weekend in Maine. They're rose hips, the fruit of the rose. You often see them in flower arrangements, but they are edible. They're too tart to eat...
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Too Much of a Good Thing: Chile Peppers
My garden is packed with hot chile peppers, as well as sweeter Italian peppers. I can't make enough salsa to use up the jalapeños, so I looked for some new ideas online. I found this great recipe for...
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too much of a good thing: cherry tomatoes
My cherry tomato plants are still going strong -- can you believe it? I found that cherry tomato plants work best in a container garden, so I planted three of them this year to get the best yield. It...
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