Turkey Brats, Peppers & Onions
Having just emerged from the 4 day Windy City Gift Show in Chicago, we’re keeping things short, sweet and simple this week.
Author: Jane McKay
So Simple Greek Chicken & Giveaway
Fun and unexpected – a summary of last weekend’s camping at Devil’s Lake, WI. The unexpected came in the form of Saturday night dinner of spear fished bass straight from the lake. We also hadn’t bargained for Timber Rattlesnake sightings either. The boys filleted the fish while sitting …read more
Warm Beet Salad, Thyme & Tahini
Week 3 of summer break and metaphorically speaking we’re juggling Grandma, summer camp and work schedules.
Glazed, Buttered Carrots & Fennel Seed
Dried and fresh herbs are suitable in different ways for slow cooking. Rather than using one as a substitute for the other I use dried during the cooking process for flavor and perk up the final dish with the addition of aromatic fresh herbs.
Caribbean Jerk Pork
A cloudless sky, steel blue water and me with my girls on the beach is what “school’s out for summer” is all about.
Chipotle Rubbed Salmon Tacos
In the early days of getting to know my slow cooker, I understood it to be the fix-it-& forget-it gadget which favors meat based all day cooking recipes. But Meg and I discovered that it can accomplish so much more.
Mulligatawny Soup
Mulligatawny Soup, the first in our trio of recipes from the Midwest Palliative & Hospice Care Center cookbook this month, was submitted by Lila Bondy.
Smitten Kitchen Grapefruit Olive Oil Pound Cake
It’s almost 2 years since we took our debut whole spice infusion, Moroccan Tagine, to Anthropologie in Highland Park for a wellness event. At the same event we also met our amazing photographer Kerri Sherman and formed a friendship that would bring our spice blends …read more
Carrot Cake with Whipped Cream Cheese Icing
The linoleum floor tiles of Nana’s & Pop’s 1950’s duck egg blue painted kitchen/diner, worn thin by the foot traffic on a never-ending quest for cups of tea, remained untouched until the new millennium.
Chocolate Banana Bread Pudding
Flour Bakery carries the tagline “make life sweeter…. eat dessert first!” Well I wasn’t so sure about that but was certain that my love for a freshly baked loaf of bread and sweet pastries at breakfast would not die.
Fennel Soup with Black Olive Oil from Sweet Paul
“Recently there has been something of a vegetable boom. It started in the fifties with Elizabeth David, who championed vegetables in their own right, not just as adjuncts to meat.” I concur with Jane Grigson’s sentiments in the introduction to the first edition of her Vegetable …read more
Salt & Pepper Flank Steak & Chimichurri Sauce
I was free to putter around in my community garden last Sunday, on a scheduled but very relaxing “annual work day.” It was the perfect pairing of purging and planting. I’m committed to growing my own, organically, in support of Earth Day every day.
