Salsa!
There are few things in life that I love more than Mexican restaurant-style salsa. The Mexican restaurant near our old apartment in Glasgow served the best salsa I’ve ever had, and I experimented for...
View ArticleMushroom, Tomato, and Pepper Frittata
So, I have been craving roasted/sauteed/cooked/hot/yummy tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers, and cheese for the past week. Today I decided to combine them in a quick and easy frittata dish for lunch! I was...
View ArticleTomato-Eggplant Bread Gratin
So I’m kinda obsessed with tomatoes lately… and I had an eggplant in the fridge that I bought on impulse. Thus this recipe was born (with a little help from a similar recipe at Food & Wine). I...
View ArticleSweet Corn Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette
I’ve been meaning to make a corn salad for a long time, and finally got around to it today. This dish is phenomenal if you use fresh corn straight off of the cob. I used frozen corn, and it was still...
View ArticleAutumn Chicken Stew
Living in West Virginia, we usually have a pretty nice transition from summer into fall. It’s one of the advantages of living here that I have to remind myself of occasionally when I’m complaining...
View ArticleGingered Butternut Squash Soup
Like many of the fall recipes I have added recently, I’ve been wanting to make this soup for some time. When my camera was out of commission, I kept getting ideas for seasonal posts, and this is one of...
View ArticleBraised Winter Vegetable Pasta
With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, I’m seeing a lot of discussion on whether or not diet, low-carb, or low-fat foods belong at the Thanksgiving dinner table. Really, it’s not so much of a...
View ArticleChick Peas and Greens Salad
First of all, hooray, I’m not dead! I apologize profusely for the lack of January (and now, at the time of finishing this, February and most of March) posts. I just realized that I could not stay away...
View ArticleSpring Pasta with Baby Spinach, Tomatoes, and Ricotta Cheese
To me, this pasta dish announced the arrival of spring. Never-mind the fact that it’s snowing outside right now, on April 1. That’s beside the point. I originally saw this recipe for Papardelle with...
View ArticleRatatouille Tart
Are you scrambling to use up all of the summer veggies you possibly can like I am? After all, in the words of Eddard Stark, “Winter is Coming!” If you are, ratatouille is a great dish to make; you can...
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