Macaroni and Cheese as an adult or even elegant dish? If you picture a blue box, probably not. Let’s talk….
Category: Lunch
A bronzed bird doesn’t have to be the only show stopper on your table. This seasonal composed salad is super-fast and easy to make and will also get a number of ooh’s and ahh’s.
National sandwich month (USA) was in August, but I’m aiming for pear season, so I feel right on queue.
Nothing screams spring like asparagus and eggs. Asparagus is the early riser and eggs are the perennial symbol of new life and beginnings.
Synergy Pasta. A simple meal I often make where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Brunch, lunch or party finger food, puff pastry is your friend. Its rich, “1000” leaves of butter laminated dough make anything you encase within it shine. Like mushrooms in a béchamel sauce for example.
Bitter. An overrated emotion, but an underused taste. I’m not jaded, but I have been embracing the bitter lately. Take radicchio for example.
With a name like “drunken spaghetti” there’s a good story here. How could there not be?!
What’s in a name? And what’s in the meaning of the name? Think of meatballs. Dense, heavy, satisfying? Maybe. But what if you used a mild whitefish instead? But let’s not call it a “meatball,” ok? Because that just doesn’t sound as light, lemony and tender as they actually are.
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