There is really nothing better than a middle of summer tomato from the farmer’s market. And after tasting one, it is even harder to eat mid-winter grocery store tomatoes. So what’s a tomato-loving girl to do during the winter months? Why, make slow roasted tomatoes, of course! These jewels are fool proof and provide the perfect flavor pop for your winter tomato blues. They take less than 5 minutes to…
Happy Friday! So to end a very long, rainy week, I am happy to report that the sun finally decided to show its face again, AND spring is right around the corner (can you believe March is only a few short days away?). Daylight savings time? Is that you? Your late nights are so close, I can feel it. In all honesty, I have been planning to post these granola…
Confession: I kind of have a love/hate relationship with soup. I want to like it, I really do. And sometimes I do love it especially if you consider chili a soup, which it kind of is, right? For some reason, I am always disappointed when I order soup. It’s either too salty or doused with cream. Or it just needs something. And the stuff in the can? I don’t even…
A quick afternoon snack, this avocado toast is on frequent rotation at my house. Obsessed with the Cafe Gitane version I once had in NYC in a cramped corner table, I decided to recreate it at home and whaddya know? It is super simple and just as tasty as the Gitane version. Okay, maybe not quite as good but pretty close. And did I say how easy it was? Mash…
Happy New Year! I am going to be honest. 2011 has gotten off to quite the rocky start for yours truly. I’m really not sure where things went wrong. 2010 ended quite nicely and BOOM. January hit with a vengeance. And so I have decided (as of twenty minutes ago) that instead of letting things spiral out of control and pout about it, I am going to take matters into…
It seems like this summer has been filled with an abundance of peaches and squash (zucchini is included in that group, and we are talking about the summer varieties today) so far. Things on the menu at my house/apartment lately have included grilled chicken with peaches, peach ice cream, and peach-blackberry cobbler. I’ve made Homesick Texan’s summer squash enchiladas, simple sauteed squash, and Smitten Kitchen’s zucchini & ricotta galette. And…
I don’t really remember eating meatloaf growing up. In fact, I feel like meatloaf has gotten a bad rap for all of these years. Maybe because it can be synonymous with cafeteria food or because it was always featured looking plastic-y and dry on 1950’s t.v. dinners (sort of like Salsbury Steak right? Blech). Or maybe because it looks like brown mystery meat. Whatever the reason is irrelevant. Meatloaf seems…