Mediterranean White Bean Dip
White beans are not just for winter and provide a great vehicle for flavor in the final of our trio of chilled summer dips.
Tag: Appetizers
Chilled Black Bean Dip
Black turtle beans were hard to find in England 8 years ago and when I did they were intimidating. Although they looked delicate and pretty, they were dried, hard, black, and shiny so I wasn’t convinced that I could turn them into anything appetizing. My exposure …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.
Spiced Nuts for New Year Celebrations
Deliberating over the phone on what to cook for our final recipe of 2014, Meg cited our friend Dina at Bodyworks Fitness & Spa who was improvising with our Sweet and Spicy blend. “Dina is making spiced nuts in her slow cooker. They might be good …read more
Winter Vegetable, Barley & Lentil Soup for Hanukkah
Until recently I had no idea what a Latke Party was. I had just finished creating our Winter Vegetable, Barley & Lentil soup for the Jewish holidays when an invitation, to join friends in lighting their Menorah and to share in a latke dinner to …read more
The Best Elegant Eggplant Recipe
What do you do when you have an abundance of something? Give it away, swap it for something else, or keep it in the hope it will get used sometime in the future.
Easy Slow Cooker Japanese Shrimp and Shiitake Egg Custards
I like opposites, the hottest summers against the coldest winters, city living so long as we have a rural retreat, and so leaving behind the concrete and straight lines of our Chicago landscape is easy but then so is returning.
