Archive for November, 2008

Savory Mashed Root Vegetables

This makes a wonderful vegetable dish for fall or winter. The herbs add a wonderful dimension to the vegetables and the added cream makes it very decadent.

Caramelized Pancetta and Fennel Salad

This delicious recipe for salad takes a boring old side dish and makes it delicious enough to serve all on its own. This was the second course we served during our Dinner party and the combination of the pancetta and fennel was just divine.

The Dinner Party Menu: Roasted Pumpkin Soup

Hello and please forgive the brief lapse in posting. While life got busy around here I can assure you the delicious recipes were building up. As a result over the next few posts I’ll be sharing with you each course of a fabulous four course meal my husband and I prepared for a recently dinner [...]

Appetizers Recipes: The Best Bruschetta

A couple of weeks ago I was hosting a girl’s night where we were indulging in Cosmos, appetizers and the Sex and the City movie. Looking through some appetizers recipes I spotted one for delicious sounding bruschetta with balsamic vinegar as an ingredient. I tweaked this stellar recipe to my own liking and when I [...]

Cooking Steak Just How You Like It

How would you like your steak? That’s probably a question you’ve been asked many times in restaurants and usually people have a standard answer based on the level of “doneness” they like their meat. Yet few know exactly how to recreate that perfect level of cooking steak at home for themselves. Today I’m showing you [...]

Get Organized with Kitchen Storage Gadgets

Kitchen storage gadgets—the underappreciated heroes of a functional kitchen. When you’re cooking nothing is more irritating than when you can’t find a certain spoon, the garlic press is missing or you open up a drawer only to be greeted with a jumbled mess of gadgets. Not to mention how chaotic the pantry can get with [...]