Roasted Acorn Squash Salad with Wheat Berries and Blue Cheese
Acorn squash skins are quite leathery and the cooked flesh will pop out of it as you cut the wedges. Use a butter-knife to help separate the skin and flesh if needed.
Continue reading >>Improv Cassoulet
There are so many things I love about cassoulet … one of them being its versatility. Be creative with your leftovers–beans, roasted meat, stale bread–and see what it becomes.
Continue reading » »Pear, Goat Cheese and Prosciutto Panini
Think of this as an upscale cousin to the average Joe grilled cheese, and as a perfect pair with creamy soups. Feel free to mix up the cheese; I like to add a generous grind of pepper on top of the pears before topping too. You can use any type of pear you like, but…
Continue reading » »Crispy Mashed Potato Cakes
I’ve always wanted a recipe like this, and I spent some time perfecting it. Would it be better to coat the cakes in panko? I wondered. It turned out to be too much trouble, and didn’t make the cakes that much crispier. What if I sprinkled cheese on the outside to make a crisp, savory crust? Nope. That didn’t add as much punch as I’d expected. This straightforward recipe–it takes just a few minutes to pull together–yielded the best results, and will be one I go back to again and again. I hope you do too.
Continue reading » »Peanut-Sweet Potato Soup
Strangely enough, peanuts and sweet potatoes make a great pair. Between the warm fall hues of this soup and the crisp, bright flavors of the Fennel-Apple Salad accompanying it (get the recipe in the Nourish Weekly Menus archive), this meal is truly a feast for the senses.
1 tablespoon peanut oil
1 cup onion, diced…
Sausage and Grape Skewers
This recipe, my slightly off-kilter ode to harvest, was adapted from Micol Negrin’s gem of a book, The Italian Grill.
Continue reading » »Melone e Limone
This simple salad is the PERSONIFICATION of how stunning and delicious peak-of-season produce can be.
Continue reading » »Pasta with Summer Squash, Sausage and Pesto
I pulled this pasta together one night when I had leftover sausage and squash in the fridge and a daughter eager to help out in the kitchen–the pesto came as much as an activity as an element of the dish. We went to the garden together to pick the basil and Noemi pounded the pesto…
Continue reading » »“Melted” Squash
This is one of my favorite ways to serve summer squash. You can use any type of squash, but I prefer the denser, green-fleshed varieties. I also like to add a dash of Guatemalan smoked chile pepper a friend of mine gave to me; this is a great dish to be adventurous with anything special…
Continue reading » »Smoky-Sweet Tri Tip
With a tender tri tip steak, wood chips and a hot grill, you can enjoy lip-smacking smoked barbecue in less than 30 minutes.
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