A couple of my peaches ripened overnight and I decided to try making some peach salsa to go with my lunch. As I dug through my fridge for salsa ingredients, I realized that I was out of both jalapeño and serrano chiles, one of which I had been hoping to use in the salsa. Since I didn’t feel like running to the store before lunch, I dug a little further in the fridge and found a container of Peppadews I had purchased last week. Continue reading →
Saturday night I had the pleasure of attending The Organic Stone Fruit Jubilee, a great event celebrating 60 varieties of peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, and pluots from about a dozen local certified organic farms.
After enjoying some music and eating delicious pulled-pork sandwiches topped with grilled peaches, we wandered from table to table chatting with farmers and sampling more varieties of stone fruits than I ever knew existed! Continue reading →
I love buttermilk. I love lemons. I love really tart, creamy, sweet things. I also recently received this popsicle maker in the mail and had been trying to decide what to freeze first. So when I ran across a recipe for these Easy, Creamy, Lemon Dream Popsicles at Whipped, I knew they would be the first ice pops to come out of my freezer.
Whipped is a food blog written by Caroline in Chicago and I’ve been a fan for a few years now. She has lots of great recipes featuring buttermilk and even created a page listing them all. That’s my kind of food blog. You might also want to check out her Greek Favorites page – lots of temptation there!
But let me tell you more about these popsicles. They are a cinch to make and super delicious! You should probably be a fan of lemon if you are going to make these because they pack some serious lemon punch. The recipe includes lemon juice and lots of lemon zest so a microplane grater will come in handy. Continue reading →
Spring is turning into summer, temperatures are soaring, and the time for strawberry ice cream is now. I’ve been buying beautiful, sweet, local berries at the Farmer’s Market for weeks now and this week is no exception. Last week I ate the strawberries fresh as a snack, as dessert, in salad, and even blended a few into a salad dressing. But this week, with 100 degree heat quickly approaching, I needed something frozen.
This ice cream might seem a bit extravagant with the heavy cream, egg yolks, and vanilla bean, but homemade ice cream is meant to be a treat and I like it rich. Perhaps next week I’ll give you a more figure-friendly sorbet recipe, but there’s nothing wrong with splurging on real ice cream from time to time. Enjoy! Continue reading →
My neighbor showed up at my door with these over the weekend. Delicious.
With this bread complete, I’ve officially passed the halfway mark in The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge. I’ve now baked the first 22 of the 43 breads in the book and I’m fairly confident that I will make it through the second half by the end of this year. I really can’t believe it’s been over a year since we first started the challenge. It’s taken me longer than I had anticipated, but even if I haven’t always been able to keep up, it’s been very rewarding to see all my new baking friends plow their way through the book. Several people have already completed the challenge, and there are new people starting from the beginning all the time. Congratulations to Oggi for being the first person to complete all 43 breads! You can read her last post and see her top 10 favorite breads at I Can Do That. Continue reading →
Bacon is good. Bacon with tart cherry balsamic glaze is even better. The nice thing about this dish is that once you pour this delicious glaze over a pile of healthy green beans, and you don’t even have to feel guilty about the bacon.
This is easy enough to be thrown together for a weeknight meal, but after you taste it you’ll want to serve it at a dinner party. It might even find its way to your holiday table. It’s that good. Continue reading →
When my friend Ruby called me the other day and told me her mom’s apricot tree was overflowing and that we each had a bag of fresh-picked fruit waiting for us, my first thought was apricot cobbler. But then I remembered the tart pan I purchased last year that still hadn’t been used and decided an apricot tart was in order.
At first I was planning on making this simple apricot tart at Orangette. I’m sure I’ll still make that one someday, but my original plan changed after a friend on Facebook shared a link to Tartelette’s Apricot Almond Tart. Not only was the tart beautiful, it was a perfect excuse to bake with some of the local honey I had just picked up at The Vineyard Farmer’s Market. Plus, I knew the almond cream filling would be perfect with the tart-sweet apricots. Continue reading →
