Made with fresh baked sweet potatoes, these biscuits are yummy in the morning or as an appetizer in the evening. My favorite time to enjoy their warm comforting goodness is for breakfast. Bake the sweet potatoes the night before to easily prepare the biscuits the next morning. I love to serve them warm with vegetarian sausage. 6 cups unbleached ...
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Watermelon Goat Cheese Salad
Finding fresh goat cheese at Continental Bakery in Birmingham from Alabama's Stone Hollow Farmstead inspired this collection of distinct farm fresh flavors. This combination of summer salad with a light vinaigrette is refreshingly tasty and healthy. Full of vitamins and color, this salad also has a nice crunch with the crisp green onions on top ...
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Trending at Trader Joe’s
Red Spinach Leaves? Yes! Green and Spinach have been synonymous until I found a new package of red spinach leaves on the shelves at Trader Joe's. With colorful summer produce in, this red spinach adds to the excitement of (what can get boring) building a summer salad. Its leaves are tender like standard green spinach, but ...
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Spicy Gazpacho
Summertime tomatoes are ripe and the freshness of gazpacho is inviting and healthy. I love the flexibility of putting ripe tomatoes in the food processor along with a cucumber, red and yellow pepper, slices of scallions, onions, or even leeks. The quantities are flexible with each ingredient. Use a variety of tomatoes like cherry, heirloom, or ...
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Lunch on the Porch
Warmer weather brings us to our screened-in porch for most meals. Connecting with nature and making meals more of an experience is what summer is all about. I try to minimize the use of the oven this time of year as the temperature heats up outside. This layered tostada is similar to huevos rancheros and packed ...
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Nordic Cuisine at Noma
The day finally arrived and our “ship has come in” to Langeliniekaj port in Copenhagen, Denmark. Two days earlier we were notified by an email that there was an opening for two for lunch at the communal table at the food-world famous Noma restaurant. After weeks on the waiting list we could not ...