Tart cranberries are mellowed in this homemade whole berry cranberry sauce featuring apples and cinnamon, which lend a warm flavor. Delightful with your holiday turkey. The giant bag of cranberries at the warehouse club we belong to caught my eye. “That’s a lot of cranberries,” my daughter Paige, who’s 10, said as I plunked it…
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Carrot Top Chimichurri Sauce Recipe
Carrot tops combine with garlic, crushed red pepper, olive oil, red wine vinegar and salt to make a lovely Carrot Top Chimichurri sauce. This sauce is delicious with steak, seafood, on roasted veggies and more. As a nation, we aren’t really in tune enough with food. Real food, that is — the kind that grows…
How to Make Garlic Scape Pesto
Fresh garlic scapes, basil and parsley combine to make an herby, fragrant pesto in this easy Garlic Scape Pesto recipe. Garlic is a root. It grows underground, developing a papery exterior that covers the bulb. But above ground, garlic has many lives … and they’re edible. When garlic grows, first it sends up greens (sometimes…
How to Roast Garlic
While raw garlic is pungent and sharp, roasted garlic sheds its harshness. Instead, it’s sweet, rich and nuanced. Here’s how to roast garlic. Given a high enough temperature and enough pressure, carbon — a pretty basic and ordinary chemical element — will transform from an opaque, inky black material to a hard, dense, translucent diamond….
Easy Honeyed Blueberry and Nut Sauce for Waffles
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #EggoBTSTarget #CollectiveBias Where did summer go? That question has been on my mind recently. It seems that in a blink the kids were down with their eight weeks of summer camp for this year. And in a flash,…
Sundried Tomato Pesto
Sundried tomatoes, fresh basil, garlic and walnuts combine with parmesan cheese and olive oil in this quick and easy recipe for Sundried Tomato Pesto — perfect for spreading on sandwiches, tossing with pasta and so much more! My life in New York feels alternately like a lifetime ago, or just a few months ago, though…
Pork Roast with Garlicky Roasted Red Pepper Basil Sauce
A tender pork roast is topped with a bright, fragrant, sweet but zesty Garlicky Roasted Red Pepper Basil Sauce. This quick and easy sauce is also delicious with chicken. This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Hormel Foods, LLC. for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. There was a time when…
Pasta with Zesty Sausage Tomato Cream Sauce
Sweet Italian sausage stars in this zippy, creamy Pasta with Zesty Sausage Tomato Cream Sauce recipe. Quotes and affirmations have materialized all over my house. It began with one — “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away,” — which I purchased after…
Kale Chimichurri Sauce
This quick and easy recipe for Kale Chimichurri Sauce makes a tart, earthy sauce perfect for serving on beef, chicken, fish, salad and more. It’s good to do things that scare you. Doing so not only builds character but also builds your resiliency. It naturally raises your inner bar for fear, making you stronger. And…
Grilled Chicken with Kale Salmoriglio Sauce
This quick and easy recipe for Grilled Chicken with Kale Salmoriglio Sauce is a delicious step outside the ordinary. Salmoriglio is an Italian green sauce with a warm but tart flavor. As a food writer, I sometimes find myself falling down the rabbit hole of research. I dig into my whims, searching for the ingredient or…
