Category: Quick and Easy Recipes
Arugula, Corn and Pepper Salad: An Easy Late Summer Salad
We’re off to enjoy some late summer freedom today, but before I go I wanted to share this ridiculous easy salad. It’s perfect for late summer, and takes just minutes to toss together. You start with peppery arugula. I use the stems in the salad since they add that extra pop of pepper. Then you [...]
Tomato, Peach and Basil Salad
The gravel crunches under the tires as I pull up to the farm where I belong to a CSA program (a CSA is basically a share in a farm’s harvest; I receive a box of veggies and fruit every week in the summer). It’s this grabble-grabble sound that almost sounds like it’s talking to you, [...]
Basil Chumichurri Sauce
The great thing about having friends who love food as much as I do is that I can email or message them for advice and they can instantly inspire me (and sometimes save the day). I was chatting with Maris about needing something more for a dish I was working on (more on that on [...]
Simple Roasted Radishes
When you mention radishes, a lot of people grimace. And really, I can’t blame them. I’m not a big fan of raw radishes myself. They aren’t the natural perfection of a farm-grown tomato in summer or an ear of just picked sweet corn. They’re hard, dirty and often ugly (especially from a farmers market). And [...]
Easy Balsamic Napa Cabbage Salad
This salad is a cool, refreshing and easy dish to throw together — which couldn’t be more perfect for days like today (and tomorrow and Saturday), when the temperature soars well into the 90s or higher, with humidity to make it all the worse. Preparing it is as simple as rinsing and chopping three veggies [...]
Avocado-Basil Rice with Tomatoes
If I had to describe this rice in just five words, they’d be creamy, bright, fresh, tender and satisfying. It’s unexpected – a very green rice, dotted with red tomatoes – but absolutely delicious. It’s a soothing mix of flavors and textures. Avocado-Basil Rice with Tomatoes combines the flavors of mild guacamole with tender, warm [...]
Herbed Grilled Red Potatoes
If I could use one word to describe the planting of our garden this year, it would be quiet. In previous years, it’s been a fast and furious effort involving the whole family. Beds were added and a fence installed. Shawn even made a special gate for the garden last year. But this year, it’s [...]
Balsamic Pasta Salad
Rhythm. It’s the stuff that our days are made of. It makes things regular and predictable and gives us a sense of calm, even when chaos threatens. Finding a rhythm when something changes always take a little time. When Will started kindergarten in September, it took a couple of weeks back in to find the [...]
Cristina Ferrare’s Clam Sauce
Clear as day, I remember the first time I had white clam sauce. I was probably 8 or 9 and out to dinner with my family at this great pasta restaurant on the Connecticut shoreline. The restaurant is not there anymore, but when it was it could be relied on for amazing, delicious housemade pasta [...]
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Popcorn
Popcorn is a Friday tradition on our house. It accompanies a special movie for the kids … our official end of the week ritual. Today, the flick was Curious George 2, which the kids loved as much as the original. Our popcorn is almost always the same: drizzle with melted butter and sprinkled with sea [...]
