With a warm, rich flavor, Basil Pecan Pesto is delightful on pasta, lovely on sandwiches and perfect on chicken, fish and vegetables. What a great summer sauce! There are little lessons that I learn in the garden each year. This year, my first and biggest one was to be less impatient. In my rush to…
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Homemade Strawberry Sauce
Fresh strawberries, sugar and lemon juice are all that’s needed to make a batch of this sweet strawberry sauce — perfect for spooning onto waffles, pancakes, angel food cake and more. If early summer has a flavor, it might just be strawberry. It’s the fragrant reminder of childhood treks through strawberry fields and trips to…
Bacon Burger Salad with Gouda Cheese Sauce
Don’t limit your burger potential! Grill up a well-seasoned patty and serve it on a bed of greens with gouda cheese sauce for a delicious dinner. This Bacon Burger Salad has it all! This post is part of a kick-butt burger grill giveaway hosted by GirlCarnivore but the burger epicness is all my own. I…
Roasted Red Pepper, Radish Greens and Garlic Sauce
Roasted Red Pepper, Radish Greens and Garlic Sauce uses the edible tops of radishes to make a delectable sauce. Try it on steak, chicken or fish. When we lived in Connecticut, I didn’t always feel like I fit in. Back then — in the first decade of the 2000s — the great buzz phrase was…
Homemade Cranberry Sauce with Apples and Cinnamon
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…
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 Nut Sauce for Waffles
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #EggoBTSTarget #CollectiveBias Turn up the flavor on your children’s school breakfast with this Easy Honeyed Blueberry Nut Sauce. It’s perfect for enjoying on waffles. Where did summer go? That question has been on my mind recently. It seems…
Small Batch Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
Sweet, tart and filled with big, rich flavor, this recipe for Small-Batch Strawberry Rhubarb Jam is quick and easy to make and delightful to enjoy. Rhubarb is in season. Strawberries are in season. Rhubarb and strawberries go hand in hand at this time of year. So why not enjoy them together? Small-Batch Strawberry Rhubarb Jam…
