This is a useful recipe to make carrots into something that you can serve as part of a fancy menu or just have on hand for quick meals and snacks.
Tag: easy
Kefir Miso Dressing
First of all, I need to tell you that you can make this dressing with yogurt and/or buttermilk if you do not have kefir. Also, if you don’t make kefir and you want to…I have some kefir grains for you.
Caramelized Cream Eggs with Rosemary and Anchovies
This is a vastly simplified version of a wonderful baked eggs with anchovies and cream recipe that I’ve made for a long time. This simplified version takes less than 10 minutes and uses just one skillet.
Marinated White Beans in Radicchio Cups
I have been eating this salad a lot lately. It’s the pleasing texture and flavor contrasts that are holding my attention – bitter, crunchy radicchio and tangy, soft white beans. Also, it’s very easy to make.
Grilled Oysters with Green Gage Plum and Shiso Relish/ My beautiful food obsessed family
My husband and I rented the Dragon’s Lodge for our wedding back in 2011 and it’s one of my favorite places on earth. It sits on the Salish Sea across from the Coast Mountains. It has a beautiful little bay with a natural tidal pool for small children to play in and a nice deep…
Fish Braised in Tomato and Simple Homemade Thai Curry Paste
It’s time to make this dish. There are so many ripe tomatoes today, but they will be gone before we know it. Make this dish with all of the tomatoes that you have purchased in a moment of tomato hoarding, or that have arrived in your farmshare. Make this dish before your tomato stockpile starts…
Beet Caviar with Lime and Pepitas
Oh my. I have been busy. I have over a dozen posts half-finished for this blog that I have not been able to get up because I am so busy. I’ve decided to post this one because it is the recipe I have been making, serving and eating the most over these last few busy…
Potato and Fried Almond Soup
This simple, Andalusian style Potato soup has been a standard in my kitchen for many winters. Is is one of the three most simple and deeply satisfying soups I’ve ever eaten. The other two are Caldo Verde, the Portuguese concoction of kale, potatoes, sausage and water that magically makes perfect soup and Stracciatella a perfect combination of eggs, greens,…
Beet Salads with Preserved Lemon (simple, hearty and fancy variations)/ Oven Coven
Back in May, my friend Maria sent out an email to a group of women that began… “Greetings Bombshells: Wanna be part of my living right project? It is tender young grape leaf season in my backyard! Time to make dolmades! I’m also calling it my Living Writer project, because man, one needs to balance work with…
Zingy Ginger Pumpkin Spread
This is not your typical pumpkin concoction. It has that marvelous velvety pumpkin texture but other than that it’s totally unexpected. It’s not sweet and homey. It’s tangy, full of heat from fresh ginger and Aleppo pepper and it has a hint of earthiness from toasted cumin. This pumpkin spread is racy.I created this pumpkin…
Big Sis Little Dish 