Roasted Beet Recipe + Salt and Honey is a great summer side dish and a fun, new way to use your home-grown or farmers-market beets. Wait, do you also have a CSA box full of beets and wondering what in the merciful heavens you are going to do with them? Cause I do. Or did. Until I…
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Spanish Chorizo and Leek Stuffed Pea Pods are a great way to use your garden-harvested peas and to impress your next dinner guests! If you haven’t caught on already, I am in full blown garden-harvest mode. Our garden is just over-flowing with beans, peas, zucchini, tomatoes, eggplant….. Last year I did an admittedly horrid job…
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Baked Brie Grilled Cheese with Sweet Basil and Boysenberry Jam is a new (slightly sophisticated) spin on the old classic! Best Brie Grilled Cheese I am completely in love with this sandwich! My own personal baked brie that I don’t have to share with anyone! How have I not thought of this before? It is…
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Strawberry Old Fashioned I am not going to pretend to be a whiskey connoisseur, because I definitely not even close. But as we were on vacation a few weeks ago, my husband was on a Old-Fashioned kick. If you aren’t generally a whiskey fan, Old-Fashioned’s are the way to go, because you have the sugar…
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Blackened Green Beans with Chorizo and Pine Nuts Blackened Green Beans with Spanish Chorizo, Pine Nuts and Fresh Lemon Zest is a great way to reinvent those fresh green beans that are ripe for the picking – this will be your new favorite side dish! So if you a) have a vegetable garden or b)…
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Pan-Fried Filet Mignon with Butter, Thyme and Blue Cheese There is something about a filet mignon paired with a good blue cheese. Damn. It’s gotta be a good blue cheese. I mean, you already sprung for the filet cut of meat, why skimp on the cheese. Don’t. It just elevates the dish to that next…
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