Sharing my favorite recipes with you
My family loves meat. We love a great steak, preferably aged, prime steaks or a beautiful filet mignon. But we can’t eat that all the time or we’ll go broke. So I have to come up with ways to make cheaper cuts of meat appetizing. […]
I’m not sure if we’re weird because we love radishes, but we really do. We’ll eat them raw with butter and sea salt or sautéed with butter. Either way, they are delicious. For this recipe, I really wanted to use the radish greens, but they […]
It’s the end of the school year and time to figure out where to take the kids for the end-of-the-year, straight A’s reward dinner. Yes, that’s right. My kids (age 11 and 13) want to be taken to fancy restaurants as the reward for getting […]
Yes, we love meat loaf. It’s meat, which is loaf as well! (I know it’s weird but that’s always the way we refer to it). So I was reading through Chef Edward Lee’s cookbook, “Smoke and Pickles, Recipes from a New Southern Kitchen” and came […]
I’ve been trying to come up with a new dip recipe to post because I have folks who make the rosemary white bean dip and the lemony chick pea dip over and over again. So here’s a new one that I hope you like just […]
I made this to take to our Father’s Day Picnic at the park. Kids, dogs, good food, great friends, lots of wine and oh yeah, the fathers too! Since it was Father’s Day, it was a good thing my husband really liked this salad. He’s […]
Ok, there are more things on this steak than the port reduction and mushrooms but I really couldn’t make the title any longer. So I ask, blue cheese? Yes! sautéed onions? Yes!, sautéed mushrooms? Yes! port wine reduction? Yes, yes, yes!! Sometimes, when I have […]
We went to a James Taylor concert at the Hollywood Bowl and I made these to take along for our picnic dinner. Meatballs make a great picnic dish because they’re bite-sized so they’re very easy to eat. It’s got a little kick but they’re not […]
So I’ve mentioned my pear balsamic that I’m in love with. I also have a meyer lemon extra virgin olive oil that is yummy and I thought that the combination of the two would make a fantastic dressing. It turns out that I was right! […]
My dear friend Sandra Marine brought over some beautiful home grown cucumbers which inspired this dish. It’s a fantastic appetizer to serve for a small gathering unless of course your guests don’t like kalamata olives, which is what happened to me. But that was fine […]
I love curry. I love curry. I love curry. Do you get the sense that I love curry? Sometimes, I will go for an entire week and have it everyday. Making a good thai curry requires a little more than just opening a can of […]
I have this pear balsamic vinegar that is so delicious, I just want to find new dishes to use it on. I tried this spin on a traditional caprese using peaches instead of tomatoes and burrata cheese. Burrata is a mozzarella cheese that is filled […]
I love chick peas and will use them in as many ways possible. This is a terrific, fresh salad that is super easy to assemble and has a wonderfully fresh flavor because of the mint and lemon zest. Great for picnics and barbecues. Ingredients 1 […]