Seasonal, Adventurous Home Cooking
This recipe is so much more than creamed spinach- it starts by making a bechamel that is flavored with sauteed onions and nutmeg and is finished with salty parmesan and nutty gruyere. I always use fresh spinach, which does take longer and requires several containers …
Cranberry sauce is a full-on side dish in my house. Don’t expect a dainty, little portion next to the turkey. We require a mound of cranberry sauce on our Thanksgiving plates. But this is not anything like jellied cranberry sauce from a can. This is …
I originally made a Duchess Potato recipe exactly as written from an old Martha Stewart Magazine, but I found that it needed more seasoning and that it looked super pretty when piped with a swirl-tip. Thus, I added garlic and thyme to the potatoes and …
This is my dad’s recipe for stuffing and it is so yummy that is an absolute requirement every year at Thanksgiving. In fact, I must satiate my cravings for this glorious side dish by periodically breaking out this recipe throughout the year and whipping up …
I always have these glorious ambitions of making spinach smoothies for breakfast every morning and being super healthy, but that rarely pans out. As a result, I have a surfeit of spinach that needs attending to by the end of the week. Recipe searching ensues. …
I love salt and vinegar potato chips, so I thought it would be nice to make a salt and vinegar potato salad. This recipe uses olive oil and white wine vinegar instead of mayonnaise which, in my opinion, makes it a healthy meal- that is, …