Category: Recipes

Watermelon Fruit Salad with Mango, Blackberries and Basil
Here’s a salad perfect for the Fourth. It’s my contribution to this month’s Food ‘n Flix round featuring Dirty Dancing.

Grilled Herbed Olives
Throw some olives on your grill before you cook your main entree. Makes for a quick and easy and delicious appetizer.

Volver Mojito
Here is this month’s Food ‘n Flix post for Volver. You will want “to return” to this cocktail again and again.

Lentil Salad with Sautéed Vegetables and Feta
This salad recipe appears in Alice Waters’ The Art of Simple Food and I love all the variations that she includes with the recipe. I’ve added carrots, celery, onions and feta to her base recipe for this dish.

Roasted Acorn Squash Salad with Arugula and Chèvre
Today’s recipe is featured in Life from Scratch by Sasha Martin, the Cook the Books current selection.

Princess Buttercup’s Butter Cups for Food ‘n Flix
This month’s Food ‘n Flix feature film is the classic The Princess Bride. Here’s my inspired-by recipe.

Two Sheet Pan-Roasted Trifecta Vegetables
Trying to get enough veggies into your diet? Here’s a simple and easy and quick way that will keep you in healthy colorful vegetables all week. The colors of this recipe prompted the title “trifecta.” Not only is it a beautiful dish, it’s also a win-win!

Chinese Five-Spice Granola with Mango
Not only is there another new granola recipe here today, but I am also including a round-up of all things granola, including previously published ones.

Chipotle-Lime Grilled Chicken
This time of year means it’s time for grilling, patio sitting, iced tea guzzling, cocktail sipping, bird watching, chimenea lighting, and star gazing. But, let’s get back to the grilling…
