This recipe makes a BIG batch of homemade bread and butter pickles. These can be made as refrigerator pickles, or they can be canned for later! Creating This Homemade Pickle Recipe Growing up, we were a house of dill. Everything I ate had to have a dill pickle on it. My ... continue reading... about Zesty Bread and Butter Pickles
appetizers & small bites
Roasted Asparagus with Browned Butter and Almonds
Roasted asparagus gets a leg up on the basic side dish with a drizzle of nutty browned butter and the crunch of buttery marcona almonds. There's nothing better in cooking than to take an easy, basic recipe and give it just a little twist to move it up a notch. Basic ... continue reading... about Roasted Asparagus with Browned Butter and Almonds
Thai Chicken Larb Lettuce Wraps
With the release of her latest cookbook, Steamy Kitchen's Healthy Asian Favorites, Jaden Hair once again shows us why she's one of the top dogs in the world of food blogging with her recipe for Thai Lettuce Wraps. Food blog author Jaden Hair of Steamy Kitchen is like Wonder ... continue reading... about Thai Chicken Larb Lettuce Wraps
Nectarine and Wisconsin Burrata Bite Crostini
This past weekend I allllmoooost could have posed as a hipster. If I was 15 years younger and dressed a whole lot cooler. I mean hipper. I mean I don't know what is better, cooler or hipper to say these days. And if I had a full blown beard—thank God it hasn’t come to that, YET. ... continue reading... about Nectarine and Wisconsin Burrata Bite Crostini
Grilled Artichokes with Garlic Butter and Friday Faves
This weekend is a biggie for one 8-year-old about to be 9-year-old in our house. Birthday time! If you’ve followed be for very long, you know my daughter Smudge prefers pie over cake any day, which means I’ll be making and adorning her favorite Yellow Cake Pie with candles for ... continue reading... about Grilled Artichokes with Garlic Butter and Friday Faves
Spinach and Feta Hand Pies Plus Friday Faves
This Sunday marks the end of winter. Well, not officially by way of the calendar and moon, but our governing officials have deemed it the end of winter whites with the setting forward of clocks across the land thanks to Daylight Savings Time. In every state except Arizona, that ... continue reading... about Spinach and Feta Hand Pies Plus Friday Faves
Chicken Tzatziki Pizza
I’m always keeping an eye out for a nugget of inspiration to create a new recipe, whether it’s from a local restaurant, a TV show, old family favorites or from definitely from friends. So when my intern and I were working last week, talking shop about design, food and our ... continue reading... about Chicken Tzatziki Pizza
Truffle Bacon Popcorn Plus 6 Savory Popcorn Recipes
There are three just-cooked scents that will put anyone’s flavor anttanae on high alert: Popcorn, bacon and chocolate chip cookies. You can smell 'em as soon as your foot hits the threshold and like a treat-obsessed dog of any size you go straight for the goods to sample a ... continue reading... about Truffle Bacon Popcorn Plus 6 Savory Popcorn Recipes
Easy Entertaining with Harry & David
The wrapping paper and ribbons have made their way back into the holiday storage bins, the purple and gold polka dotted neck tie found its way back to the department store. While Christmas is geared toward filling the stockings with care and the joy of giving to others, adults ... continue reading... about Easy Entertaining with Harry & David
Shrimp and Scallop Ceviche Stuffed Avocados
The most tasteful things in life are usually the simplest. And this dish is a shining example. After weeks of nipping at our ankles like border collies herding sheep, Christmas Eve is here and New Years Eve will be scurrying right up behind it. I for one am ready to welcome in ... continue reading... about Shrimp and Scallop Ceviche Stuffed Avocados
Fig Spread and Cheese Crostini Appetizer + Korin Giveaway
Are you tired of me saying it yet? Talking about how much I adore salty paired with sweet? I hope not, because you're in for a big dose of it today. This past weekend we made our way to our friend's annual holiday company Christmas party. No, I'm not moonlighting on the side ... continue reading... about Fig Spread and Cheese Crostini Appetizer + Korin Giveaway
Friday Faves and a Harry & David Gift Basket Giveaway
I can’t start this post without first squeeling a gigantic, “THANK YOOOOOOUU!” to everyone who has taken time out of their busy holiday-preparing-lives, opened a new browser window and read about the amazing food bloggers and contributors featured in the Holiday Issue of ... continue reading... about Friday Faves and a Harry & David Gift Basket Giveaway
Friday Faves and Pumpkin Gruyere Gougeres
The time is drawing near as we will soon be gazing upon the backside of the great pumpkin Charlie Brown. Does that mean the plethora of pumpkin recipes will be waning as well? Maybe. Maybe not. According to one of my favoritely designed magazine (yes, I make up words to ... continue reading... about Friday Faves and Pumpkin Gruyere Gougeres
Crab Salad Sweet Potato Chip Bites and a Virtual Baby Shower
There's nothing in the world that can bring a smile to one's face like seeing a new mama gaze wonderously at her newborn baby. The cliché is true, each and every one of those nuggets of time are mini miracles. And today we have a little celebrating to do: TA-DA! We're ... continue reading... about Crab Salad Sweet Potato Chip Bites and a Virtual Baby Shower
Spooky Fried Mozzarella Eyeballs Plus 5 Scary Recipes
Last Halloween I was beyond impressed with the number of creative and scary recipes I saw bounding about the blogosphere. How do people come up with this stuff? I don't remember this sort of thing happening when I was a kid. Or is it just because back then all that ... continue reading... about Spooky Fried Mozzarella Eyeballs Plus 5 Scary Recipes
Pumpkin and Fried Sage Flatbread plus 5 Savory Pumpkin Recipes
Sometimes you just don’t have time to create a complicated meal. And sometimes you have the time and just don’t want to. Today was one of those days. Last week Smudge and I picked up a few sugar pumpkins at the farmer’s market, both for decoration and to cook with. She ... continue reading... about Pumpkin and Fried Sage Flatbread plus 5 Savory Pumpkin Recipes
Cheesy Chorizo Caramelized Onion Dip Recipe
Boys will be boys. And boys like football. And cheese. And sausage. My husband, like so many guys out there and quite a few ladies with a penchant for competition, is a big football fan. He isn't as nutty as some dudes out there who are obsessed with their Fantasy ... continue reading... about Cheesy Chorizo Caramelized Onion Dip Recipe
Friday Faves plus Grilled and Stuffed Tomatoes Recipe
Oh man, it's happening. In just the past two days we've turned off the swamp cooler at night, I've noticed the change of the angle of the sun, and Monday is D-day: the first day of school. Although all of this signals the end of summer and our time of being foot-loose and ... continue reading... about Friday Faves plus Grilled and Stuffed Tomatoes Recipe
Friday Faves and Grilled Peaches with Mascarpone Cheese
Soon I'll be heading north. Not for the great white chill of Alaska, but to Northern Utah for Peach Days. Peach season is right around the corner, and I can't wait to hand-pick some big old juicers from the roadside fruit stand to take home and throw on the grill for my easy ... continue reading... about Friday Faves and Grilled Peaches with Mascarpone Cheese
Friday Faves and a Craving for Pickled Jalapeños
The jalapeños made me do it. This past New Years Eve we were celebrating at my friend Mandy's house, doing those things that people do on that auspicious night. Everyone brought a little something to nosh on and there was quite the spread to complement the flowing toasts and ... continue reading... about Friday Faves and a Craving for Pickled Jalapeños
10 Top Tomatillo Recipes and Roasted Tomatillo and Green Olive Salsa
I don't know why but within one day I've become surrounded by the soon-to-be-wedded. I spent part of last week watching a wedding photography seminar as I worked along on my computer. The week before I was at a wedding fashion shoot. And I've been working with my bridal editor ... continue reading... about 10 Top Tomatillo Recipes and Roasted Tomatillo and Green Olive Salsa
Baked Peppered Ricotta Crostini with Roasted Tomatoes
I've been feeling a bit DIY these days. And I blame it all on fall. Homemade pizza dough, fresh baked bread from MY oven and even making tofu from scratch (a blog post is coming soon, I promise you won't want to miss it!) So after trolling through several recipes for homemade ... continue reading... about Baked Peppered Ricotta Crostini with Roasted Tomatoes
Peach & Tomato Bruschetta Recipe
Baby toes, baby breath, baby kisses right in the crook of their fat, little, creased neck. The things I crave when I hear a friend is going to have a baby. So when a bunch of Utah food bloggers got together to celebrate the beautiful-babe-to-soon-be of our friends Maria and Josh ... continue reading... about Peach & Tomato Bruschetta Recipe
