Will and I went down to Southern California to visit my parents for Thanksgiving. Over dinner one night I was telling them about a few upcoming events that I need to plan some dishes for. One of which is the recipe I am sharing with you today, Roast Pork. In telling them about the dish…
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Roasted Butternut Pear Soup
Fall is all around us. Seems like just yesterday I was talking about seeing the change of produce at the farmers market and getting excited to usher in fall flavors. Now Halloween is over, the clocks have been set back an hour and we are already working through the first week of November. What better…
Sweet Potato Breakfast Hash
I love breakfast. It has become a necessary part of my day. So much so that I make sure I have enough time in the morning to at least scramble some eggs with veggies. But what I really love are slow weekend breakfasts. The ones where you have time to try something new or to…
Thomas Keller’s Roast Chicken
I have always loved roast chicken. Whether its surrounded with root veggies on a cold winter night or shredded and made into chicken salad. It is incredibly versatile and relatively easy to do at home. So when I was creating the first menu for a series of dinner parties Will and I are hosting, I…
Steak and Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing
The warm summer days are upon us. With it comes lots of salads and grilling. And gazpacho… lots of gazpacho. But this post isn’t about gazpacho, it’s about salad and a grilled piece of beef. I derived this salad from a traditional spinach salad with warm bacon dressing. It’s a wilted salad with a tart…
Chunky Tomato Vinaigrette
July is upon us and with it brings a vast array of summer produce. Specifically tomatoes. While they don’t really hit their summer peak till August, they are in delightful abundance right now. And tasty too. This years crop is proving to be abundantly more flavorful than last years. When a cherry tomato tastes like…
Roasted Carrots with Lemon Mint Vinaigrette
I often find myself in a food rut. I know my pictures on Instagram might imply otherwise but for me it often comes back to a desire for variety and creativity with food. Even though I’ve been at this whole foods/primal approach to eating for almost a year now sometimes when you eat primarily vegetables,…
Chicken Salad
I initially set out to write about purchasing half a cow. And I will. It has just been too long since I’ve shared a proper recipe and I need to get back into the groove with my photography. That aside, the other reason I’m writing about chicken as opposed to beef is simply that I…
Swedish Chocolate Pound Cake {Chokladkaka}
We are finally starting to feel a change of the seasons on the coastside. Our Indian summer is over and for the past several weeks we’ve had several large storms come through. All the rain has been very refreshing and even cleansing in way. The temperatures are finally matching the right time of the year….
Swedish Farmer Cookies {Bondkakor}
Some recipes truly do have a secret ingredient. Something that makes you stop and go “what is that?” Usually secret ingredients are along the lines of nutmeg, espresso powder, citrus zest, etc. But this little cookie has something a bit more unique than normal. Molasses. It is a by product of the sugar refining process….
Salad Toppers – Mimosa
The last salad topper I am going to talk about is a mimosa. Did you know there is more than one kind of mimosa in the food world? And that it happens to be a salad topper? I, like you, always thought of a mimosa as the champagne/organe juice drink served with brunch on weekends….
Alexander’s Tarts {Alexanterintortut}
Alexander’s tarts… or another way to to look at them, iced raspberry pie crust sandwich tarts. According to Beatrice Ojakangas (author of the Great Scandinavian Baking Book) they are named from Czar Alexander the II or Russia who ruled over Finland in the eighteenth century. While they are easy to prepare, I think I would…
Not So Serendipitous 