Eliot's Eats

A life well read and well fed

Category: Recipes

  • Garlic Scapes and Kale

    Garlic Scapes and Kale

    Nope, I’m not posting a salad recipe today either but this leafy green veggie dish is 100% locally grown in our own garden and yard. (And, it is delicious!)

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  • National Ice Tea Day

    National Ice Tea Day

    I am recycling, re-purposing, and reusing today. This post was originally done as a guest post for Food Stories way back in 2012. Here it is again in all its glory to celebrate National Ice Tea Day.

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  • Asparagus with Chive Seasoned Mayo

    Asparagus with Chive Seasoned Mayo

    Although technically not a salad, this dish is good served warm or cold the next day as a salad-like lunch.

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  • Grilled Cheese with Bread and Butter Pickles

    Grilled Cheese with Bread and Butter Pickles

    It’s time for Cook the Books. Kathleen Flinn is the featured author and I enjoyed her memoir of food, recipes and love from her adventurous and sometimes eccentric family. I probably chose the strangest recipe to feature this month….Grilled Cheese and Bread & Butter Pickles

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  • Mediterranean Medley Pasta Salad

    Mediterranean Medley Pasta Salad

    I know, I know….this isn’t exactly a “Salad-a-Day” but I am at least doing better than I did last summer. Here is today’s salad, an easy and delicious salad full of veggies.

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  • Wicked Fruit

    Wicked Fruit

    This Wicked Fruit is laden with whiskey and Amaretto as inspired by this month’s Food ‘n Flix feature “The Witches of Eastwick.”

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  • Peppery Perfect Pasta Salad

    Peppery Perfect Pasta Salad

    School’s out! I am celebrating with a salad!

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  • Banana Cookies with Cacao Nibs

    Banana Cookies with Cacao Nibs

    An old recipe revisited yields a new keeper.

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  • Fresh Mint Ice Cream with Cacao Nibs

    Fresh Mint Ice Cream with Cacao Nibs

    A garden update and a cookbook review of “Sweeter Off the Vine” by Yossy Arefi.

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  • Smoked Turkey & Brie Sandwiches

    Smoked Turkey & Brie Sandwiches

    You must try this extraordinary sandwich for your next picnic or as you watch the rest of the Triple Crown. For the Kentucky Derby, I present Smoked Turkey & Brie on Rosemary Bread.

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