Adventures in cooking and baking.
This pasta dish with green beans and ricotta is a wonderful side dish or even a great main dish. The pasta and the beans are tossed with lots of Parmesan or Romano cheese and herbs, and then combined with generous dollops of ricotta cheese.
This pasta dish is pure comfort food. It's creamy, a little bit spicy, and loaded with freshly blanched French green beans cut into one inch pieces. You can even eat it from a bowl with a spoon while streaming your favorite show.
This carrot and cheddar gratin is easy to make and makes an impressive and amazing side dish for when company's coming for brunch or dinner.
This carrot gratin begins with carrots steeped in cream and lightly browned onions, topped with cheddar cheese and buttered and herbed bread crumbs, and then baked until golden-brown.
These potatoes boulangère are a wonderful lightened up potato dish. You can serve these potatoes for dinner as a side for roasts, steaks and chops, and poultry, or as a side dish for a celebratory brunch.
With Mother's Day, Father's Day, and graduation celebrations coming up, save this recipe and add these potatoes to your menu.
Dress up your brunch table with these Cranberry and Pixie Tangerine scones. They are easy to make and super flavorful.
These scones are tender and citrusy. They are soft and moist on the inside with crispy crumbly edges. They are tasty on their own or split and spread with butter or jam.
These green beans with shallots and tomatoes make a wonderful vegetable dish that you'll be tempted to eat with your fingers, kind of like French fries.
I know this is pretty much a side dish, but I first enjoyed it on its own for a light lunch accompanied by a tasty buttered Italian croissant, and it was plenty. Of course, my portion was a bowlful, and I'm not ashamed.
This summer squash succotash is a great recipe for using all of the wonderful produce that your garden produces in the summer.
While I don't have room for a garden, I am just lucky enough to have a cousin who is a horticultural genius, and grows an amazing variety of fresh produce in her almost cantilevered hillside garden.
This yeasted honey cornbread is a cross between a sandwich bread and a slice of sweet corn bread you might enjoy at a barbecue.
This bread will remind you of sweet cornbread. In fact, if you're in the sweet cornbread camp, you definitely need to try this bread with a big bowl of chili or a plateful of ribs. Definitely slather warm slices with honey butter for a heavenly experience. The sweet corn flavor comes through.
