Sweet Potatoes are a super food, and while I generally associate them with fall and winter cooking, they are good year round. They are great roasted and tossed with pomegranate syrup, mashed with lots of butter and salt as a side dish, made into soup, and sweet potato pie. Every year, I am invited to [...]
Shepherds-pie-1 This recipe is so outstanding it deserves a separate post to ensure the recipe sticks around. The combination of ground lamb and sweet potato is spectacular, and this is the kind of dish that is perfect on a cold Sunday, or rainy weekday. I actually made the stew the night before and roasted the [...]
One of my very favorite, and first cookbooks, is the Frog Commissary Cookbook from a now-defunct restaurant in Philadelphia. The spine is a mess, with many pages holding on for dear life. I wrote my whole name in the book, back before I was married, probably because I brought it along to college and did [...]
Chilaquiles, a traditional Mexican hangover cure, is a truly flexible dish easy to throw together for an impromptu brunch or dinner after a busy day. This recipe originally was clipped out of the San Francisco Chronicle in 2003, and every time I find a fresh bunch of chard in my Two Small Farms vegetable box, [...]
I clipped this recipe out of Martha Stewarts Everyday Food back in 2006, and as the cool weather approaches, it is definitely a go-to recipe in our house. The original recipe has stayed pretty much the same, but I have been known to add other root vegetables (beets, turnips, rutabagas) and mix it up with [...]
Long ago, when my daughter was born, a family from our play group brought over dinner. I remember the discussion with Becky – she wanted to know if we liked New Mexican chili sauce. She was planning to make chicken enchiladas for us, and little did she know it was a favorite of my husband. [...]
