Brown Butter Garlic Snack Mix Recipe
Posted on March 11, 2010 - Filed Under Appetizers, Recipes | 1 Comment
When I was in college, I had a roommate one semester who loved garlic bread more than anyone I had ever met. Her mom would buy her a loaf from the grocery store every week and she’d bake it up one portion at a time. As much as I adore garlic bread myself, that was [...]
Read More..>>Lightened Up Spinach Artichoke Dip Recipe
Posted on February 10, 2010 - Filed Under Appetizers, Recipes, cheese | 6 Comments
Forgive me, I don’t have a great photo of this recipe. Sigh.
For Christmas, my husband got me something that I’ve been wanting for a long, long time: a point and shoot camera. I love my big Canon with its lenses and power and sharpness. But I wanted something that I could tote around everywhere and [...]
Cooking With Kids: Will’s Fruity Salsa
Posted on February 8, 2010 - Filed Under Appetizers, Easy Recipes, Recipes, cooking with kids | 5 Comments
This post would be more accurately titled “Letting Kids Do the Cooking,” but I don’t want to interrupt the flow of this weekly feature (which I totally love, by the way). And besides, this was still cooking with kids, since I did all the prep work and set Will’s mise en place out for him. [...]
Read More..>>10 Delicious New Year’s Eve Appetizers
Posted on December 29, 2009 - Filed Under Appetizers, Recipes, holiday, quick and easy | 3 Comments
What do you do on New Year’s Eve? Nearly every year for as long as I can remember, I have stayed home, watched a movie and ate some delicious food. At midnight, I always have some sort of sparkling wine or champagne.
Back when I was a teen, our family tradition was to eat a spread [...]
Easy Party Food: Freeform Puff Pastry Tart Recipe
Posted on December 16, 2009 - Filed Under Appetizers, Recipes | 1 Comment
There is something delightfully wonderful about puff pastry. It’s flaky and tender, satisfying and comforting. Puff pastry reminds me of France, for its similarities to croissants … It’s fantastic. If I could, I would eat it daily. But it’s also quite caloric, and I don’t think my waistline would ever forgive me. Still, for holiday [...]
Read More..>>Turkey Pepperoni and Cheese Puff Pastry Recipe
Posted on December 2, 2009 - Filed Under Appetizers, Recipes | 4 Comments
James Beard once wrote:
Canapes
Here is a world in itself. The canape world presents all sorts of problems and rules which have been laid down by one person or another. I think I shall disregard the majority of them and proceed under my own power and see if I can’t reach a logical and fairly simple [...]
Cranberry Salsa
Posted on November 7, 2009 - Filed Under Appetizers, Healthy Cooking, holiday, sauce | 1 Comment
Got chips?
It was mid-summer when I started dreaming up this cranberry concoction. While my family and I were contemplating whether the elevated temperatures really warranted turning on the air conditioner, I was also starting to fantasize about how I could take some traditional Thanksgiving tastes – like cranberry sauce – and give them a new [...]
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Recipe
Posted on November 4, 2009 - Filed Under Appetizers, Feeding Kids, Healthy Cooking | 2 Comments
Until last week, I had never carved a pumpkin myself. There was this one time in high school where I insisted on having a carved pumpkin … but aside from a tiny knife jab or two, I didn’t do the actual carving. But on Halloween, I carved two pumpkins and my husband carved another two. [...]
Read More..>>Fun Family Time: Popcorn and a Movie
Posted on March 1, 2009 - Filed Under Appetizers, Feeding Kids, Just Fun | 5 Comments
Popcorn. That’s what this is about. Popcorn … and movies.
See, Shawn was a little disappointed to pop over here and find that the photo in my last post was a map and there was nothing about family or food. Can’t please everyone, right? … Nonetheless, this is decidedly about family and food.
When it comes to [...]
Love It: Roasted Garlic and Artichoke Bread
Posted on January 11, 2009 - Filed Under Appetizers | 4 Comments
Garlic. When I say the word, two things come to mind: First, my grandmother who back in the 80s caught wind of the health benefits and took it to heart. And second, the fact that people either love garlic (me!) or hate it (Shawn!). While I am not a fan of raw garlic (is anyone?), [...]
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