Appetizers

Quiche Lorraine with Caramelized Onions IS for Real Men!

April 18, 2011

I was 28 when I moved to Raleigh, NC from a suburb of St. Louis, MO. I had been married for just a couple of years when my husband was offered a management job with a telecommunications company and I was excited about the move. It was going to be hard to leave my young [...]

French Onion Soup – with some Italian Style!

February 24, 2011

I love French Onion Soup and when I have the time and know I’ll have some folks to enjoy it with, I love making this recipe for what I think is just the best I’ve ever had. But it’s a job and after it’s finished, it then has to meld in the fridge overnight before [...]

Red Pepper, Poblano, Jalapeno, Honey and Lime Sauce

February 9, 2011

I was reminded when I was making this red and green pepper sauce for pork last week what a leap of faith it was the first time I made it. I admit it…I have a huge, big, very bad aversion to green bell peppers. Just cringed even typing that sentence (I’m not kidding!). Although I [...]

Here’s to a Healthy New Year
and a Different Kind of Cleanse!

December 30, 2010

Breakfast, Day 2: Warm and Nutty Quinoa from 101Cookbooks.com Although the word cleanse can leave most of us lacking (or even frightened!) in terms of being excited about the possibility, when I saw Bon Appetit tweet yesterday (@bonappetitmag) about a food lovers cleanse, I was intrigued enough to at least click the link and check [...]

Tomatillo Salsa Verde

September 5, 2010

I’ve been making a lot of food recently that is inspired by foods from our neighbor Mexico. Maybe it’s because I love an icy cold margarita on warm evenings that has me making dishes to serve with them; I do have my priorities on straight! I love this tomatillo salsa, a wonderful grilled corn salsa [...]

Raspberry Balsamic Jelly

August 29, 2010

Since I’ve started a new blog at RSVP Redux and want to input some content there; I’ve been looking even more carefully at the recipes in the RSVP section of Bon Appetit. Although I’ve already made the Toffee Peach Crisp crisp from the August 2010 issue, I was still compelled by the simple and wonderful [...]

Grilled Corn Salsa with Poblano Chiles, Cilantro and Honey

August 10, 2010

For some reason I’ve never been inclined towards corn salsa before. I guess I’ve always liked a tomatillo or tomato based variety and it just either sounded bland or I wasn’t crazy about using red peppers that I always saw in them (though that has gotten better). But that has all changed. Was it the [...]

Carrot Ginger Soup with Chile Butter

June 5, 2010

I discovered when I brought groceries home the other night from a local farmers market that I already had carrots…so I did go on the hunt for something ‘carroty’ in order to use one of those bunches immediately.

Basmati Rice with Vietnamese Sweet Lemon Curry

May 25, 2010

I love dishes flavored with curry but admit that for many years thought curry was a singular spice, like cloves or nutmeg. I learned several years ago that curry is really a blend of spices that comprised what I bought in that red and white can from the supermarket.

Massimo Bruno’s Popette D’uova

May 1, 2010

I saw my friend Mardi at www.eatlivetravelwrite.com tweet about this restaurant dish last week and this Monday she was given permission by chef Massimo Bruno to post the recipe on her blog. I love the Italian name for them…something is lost in translation by calling them ‘egg balls!’