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Blackberry and Roasted Fennel Salad with Honey Balsamic Dressing
January 2, 2012 – 10:32 am | 22 Comments
Blackberry and Roasted Fennel Salad with Honey Balsamic Dressing

A healthy salad that’s filling and packs a ton of flavor. Here’s to a healthy 2012!

quick tomato gratin
July 30, 2011 – 1:47 pm | 2 Comments
quick tomato gratin

What to do with that surplus of summer tomatoes? Try this quick & easy gratin!

Asparagus Soup with Coconut Lemon Crème Fraiche
April 2, 2011 – 9:31 am | 11 Comments
Asparagus Soup with Coconut Lemon Crème Fraiche

I’m obsessed with asparagus. It’s the perfect vegetable – easy to clean and trim with so many different ways to prepare it that I often have trouble deciding.

Shaved Asparagus Salad with Meyer Lemon & Grana Padano
March 22, 2011 – 3:36 pm | 11 Comments
Shaved Asparagus Salad with Meyer Lemon & Grana Padano

It’s asparagus season! Try this easy yet elegant salad.

penne with butternut squash and goat cheese
February 8, 2011 – 3:25 pm | 15 Comments
penne with butternut squash and goat cheese

An easy and deliciously different pasta dish – perfect for fall!

Asparagus Salad
November 25, 2010 – 8:23 am | No Comment
Asparagus Salad

Enjoy this delicious and easy asparagus salad at your next get-together or for a light weekday lunch. It’s simple and sophisticated!

Five Deliciously Different Butternut Squash Recipes
October 6, 2010 – 11:05 am | 6 Comments
Five Deliciously Different Butternut Squash Recipes

Five butternut squash recipes (and not one is a soup)!

Cracked Pepper and Goat Cheese Zucchini Roll-Ups
September 15, 2010 – 5:40 pm | 8 Comments
Cracked Pepper and Goat Cheese Zucchini Roll-Ups

Try this easy and delicious appetizer for your Thanksgiving feast!

Vegetable-Stuffed Chicken with Ginger-Hoisin Sauce
August 15, 2010 – 6:44 pm | 4 Comments
Vegetable-Stuffed Chicken with Ginger-Hoisin Sauce

I am terrible at stuffing chicken breasts. I pound out the chicken, make the stuffing, add said stuffing to said chicken, and things roll along pretty smoothly. Then…the stuffing never, ever stays where it’s supposed to. It inevitably oozes out the sides and all over the pan. I know, I know…toothpicks should do the trick, right? Sadly, not in my case. I’m hopelessly stuffing-challenged.

Foodbuzz 24×24: The Five Ingredient Dinner Party
June 27, 2010 – 3:55 pm | 3 Comments
Foodbuzz 24×24: The Five Ingredient Dinner Party

Throwing a dinner party can be stressful, time consuming and expensive. That’s why for this month’s Foodbuzz 24 proposal I thought a Five-Ingredient Dinner Party was in order. Every dish at our party had five or less ingredients, from appetizer down to dessert!

Carrot Souffle
March 5, 2010 – 2:10 pm | 25 Comments
Carrot Souffle

Still looking for the perfect Thanksgiving side dish? This is my signature!

simple roasted asparagus
April 13, 2009 – 1:44 pm | 15 Comments
simple roasted asparagus

Asparagus is in season! Learn the quick and easy way to bring out its delicious flavor.

asparagus…in a bag?
March 1, 2009 – 10:49 am | 4 Comments
asparagus…in a bag?

I saw this delicious photo – along with its caption – on foodbuzz, and frantically searched until I found the recipe.  I love asparagus, and while roasting it comes darn close to perfection, I absolutely can’t …