Recipe Archive

  • Summer makes blogging easier. The light is great, and the ingredients, local produce, make for great photos with no work. It also makes eating easier. The elegant, fresh flavors of summer fruits and vegetables lend themselves to quick meals without much fuss, almost as if nature planned it that way. . . I just need to find a place where it is like this year round! As you know, I have been working mostly from home, but this week I started a contract job that has me in the office more. And that means making lunch again. Summer helped make...

    Summer Pasta Salad

    Posted on July 9, 2011 | No Comments
    Summer makes blogging easier. The light is great, and the ingredients, local produce, make for great photos with no work. It also makes eating easier. The elegant, fresh flavors of summer fruits and vegetables lend themselves to quick meals without much fuss, almost as if nature planned it that way. . . I just need to find a place where it is like this year round! As you know, I have been working mostly from home, but this week I started a contract job that has me in the office more. And that means making lunch again. Summer helped make...

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  • Within the past couple of days, it seems a switch was flipped to summer and I’m welcoming the new season with open arms and new recipes. Gone are the days of braising hearty dishes and heavy comfort food, the warmer months are all about crisp vegetables, ripe fruits and lighter, fresher fare. Usually with my summer-time recipes there’s a lot less fuss over a dish and because my apartment can get pretty toasty, pretty fast, my recipes also tend to get created with minimal help from the heat of a stove. While the chickpeas in this salad were roasted to...

    Roasted and Chilled Chickpea and Herb Salad

    Posted on June 1, 2011 | No Comments
    Within the past couple of days, it seems a switch was flipped to summer and I’m welcoming the new season with open arms and new recipes. Gone are the days of braising hearty dishes and heavy comfort food, the warmer months are all about crisp vegetables, ripe fruits and lighter, fresher fare. Usually with my summer-time recipes there’s a lot less fuss over a dish and because my apartment can get pretty toasty, pretty fast, my recipes also tend to get created with minimal help from the heat of a stove. While the chickpeas in this salad were roasted to...

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