Hello friends. I hope that you are all enjoying the growing light of the season. I am personally having the worst bout of seasonal affective disorder that I’ve had in 15 years. I am combatting it with floral arrangements and cheese platters.
Tag: Holiday
Charred Harvest Vegetables with Spicy Romesco Sauce
At the end of October, I cooked at five course dinner for 12 women who attended the Garden of Alchemy event created by The Muses. Each course of the dinner evoked an element (water, air, fire, earth). I will be sharing the entire menu and photos from the event soon! For the fire course, I…
Pear Sambuca Clafoutis
This is a simple recipe. If you have ripe pears and want to have a delicious pear custard cake in less than an hour, just scroll down for the recipe. Otherwise, I’m going to tell you about the complicated pie that inspired this easy recipe.
French Toast with Caramelized Figs
Happy New Year! My husband made french toast for dessert on Christmas this year and it was so good that we decided to have it again for breakfast on New Years Day.
Apple Lemon Almond Tart (gluten-free)
Happy Boxing day! I encourage you to make a tart for yourself. It’s been a hard year and you deserve a sweet treat. I made this tart to satisfy a personal craving that I was having for European style apple turnovers. I’m not talking about the weirdly puffy danishes doused with icing that appear in…
The Best Cranberry Chutney
May I humbly suggest that cranberry sauce should be replaced with cranberry chutney at your next holiday meal? You don’t even need to wait for a special occasion meal! I am devoted to having sweet condiments with my savory food, so I make and eat a lot of fruit chutney. In my freezer, right now,…
Caramelized Onion and Wild Mushroom Tart with a Hazelnut Crust (Gluten-Free)
Like many of the recipes that I make up, this one is time consuming; but, I really, genuinely enjoy cooking so I’m never going to skip caramelizing the onions just because it takes so long! Anyway, this is the sort of dish you make for a special occasion, for people who you truly love. I’m…
Vegan and Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie
Here is a truly delicious vegan and gluten-free pumpkin pie recipe. The filling is seasoned to perfection and silky smooth and the crust has little bits of crystalized ginger. It’s so good. It can be enjoyed equally by those without any dietary restrictions at all. I made this pie last December when our oven…
2 Infused Wines for the Holidays (Pear Lavender and Grapefruit Vanilla)….but you should make them now because they are slow.
If you have been reading this blog lately, you are aware that I have been gathering with some of my female friends pretty often for an Oven Coven. So far, it hasn’t actually involved the oven. It’s mostly involved us infusing alcohol with delicious flavors, while drinking the alcohol that we concocted the last…
Cranberry, Almond, Ginger Tart (gluten-free)
My plan was to make this tart to bring to every holiday party I went to this year. It’s a beautiful tart, all shiny and red and studded with candied ginger. The jam filling packs a punch between the tartness of the cranberries and the spice of the ginger, but there is just a thin…
Big Sis Little Dish 