Tag: simple

Caramelized Fennel with Goat Cheese

Quick.  Before spring comes in earnest.  Get in all of your comfort-food-eating.  And your cheese-melting. And your warm spice toasting.  Because spring is coming soon and it will be all strawberries and asparagus. I know it’ll be a month or two, or even three (God 

Lentils with Kale and Bacon

Lentils?! Kale?!  What the…. ?!  Oh, phew, it’s ok: Bacon.  That, right there, folks, was my thought process while looking at this recipe.  This is another recipe that falls under the category of not-quite-sure-why-I tried-it, but also the sure-glad-I-did one.  Whooee, that was a lot of 

Apple Pandowdy

I try to not eat things like skillet apple pie all the time, I swear.  I really do start out with the best intentions.  I go to the store and buy dozens of apples (healthy snacks!), but in the end, they wind up covered in butter 

Slow-Roasted Chicken

It seems that in the food blogging world (and ok, maybe the world in general) something a little obnoxious starts happening in early February.  All of the food starts turning pink.  Or red.  Or covered in chocolate.  Or becomes inexplicably heart-shaped.

Mushroom, Spinach, and Walnut Soup

When I friend requested that I come up with a recipe for the soup she loved at one of her favorite restaurants, I was all, “Heck yeah!” I love a good challenge, don’t you?  The real challenge, however, is that this restaurant is in Arizona, 

Chocolate Chip Cake

Since I’ve been on such a roll with my old tried-and-true recipes, I figure I might as well just keep on truckin’.  And it doesn’t get much better than this.  This is recipe gold, folks.  Cake.  Chocolate Chips. Cinnamon Sugar.  A big chunk of this 

Corn, Green Chile, and Potato Soup

I like to think of myself as adventurous in the kitchen.  Apart from my recent cooking rut, I usually like to try a variety of new recipes, use new ingredients, come up with variations on old recipes.  But there are some things that I always 

Vanilla Coconut Cashew Butter

My boys love peanut butter.  Like, seriously love peanut butter.  Between the two of them, we go through large jars of the stuff like it’s water.  Now, I like peanut butter, but I can’t eat it for lunch every single day (like some toddlers I 

Roasted Carrot Salad with Cumin Vinaigrette

Hi.  I’m back.  I took a little hiatus for a week or so there, because with the holidays and all, it was just too much.  Too much fun, too much running around, too much gorging myself on festive holiday food.  All that.  And more.  But 

Irish Cream Truffles

Do I really need to write a post for this one, folks?  It’s chocolate.  And booze.  Melted, mixed, rolled around in more chocolate.  Highly giftable, delicious, boozy chocolate.  Listen, we all have lots of stuff to do this time of year.  I, for one, still