For the Love of Food

After yesterdays very important post on Food Styling – I am almost embraced to post this picture. I rummaged through my refrigerator for quite a while before giving up – nothing green to go on top! Everything living and green was sitting in my garden a 15 minute walk away…sometimes it’s impractical to not have your herb garden in your kitchen!

Anyways, I still think the dish is worth of posting because it was so delicious.

I was recently introduced to the idea of roasting tomatoes in the oven by Naturally Ella in her recipe for Roasted Vegetable Tostadas – which I made 4 times in the last 2 weeks! I will post about those later. Anyways, it got me to thinking that if roasted tomatoes can taste so delicious in Tex Mex, they sure would taste great in an Italian dish like Spagehtti al Pomodoro (which is basically spaghetti in tomato sauce). Continue Reading »

Last week I blogged about the lactose-free ricotta cheese that I made. And, today I’m finally getting around to showing you what I did with it!

I made these zucchini rolls for dinner for us and a friend and they were a big hit. I love making appetizers for dinner some times – especially when it’s really hot outside. They are pretty simple and tasty.

At some point I ran out of ricotta and substituted with feta cheese – but it is way too salty for a dish like this in comparison to the ricotta. Continue Reading »

This is a fun recipe to make with your kids for a hot summer day.

So, what is an ice cherry?? An ice cherry is an ice cube shaped like a cherry with a stem.

They are pretty simple to make – the “complicated” part is finding an ice cube tray that fits what you need. I happened to have one lying around.

Here’s what you do: Continue Reading »

This month is the big 3 for Taste&Create and to celebrate everyone is blogging about a dessert on their partner’s blog.

I chose to blog about Cupcakes, Food and Pretty Lil Things (my partner), Chocolate Caramel Seduction Cupcakes. And, although mine don’t look as awesome as hers, they sure did taste sooooo very deliciously sweet.

This is how good they were: Continue Reading »

We don’t use ricotta cheese very often, and when we do we go to our local Italian store and get some.

That was a lot easier when our son was not lactose intolerant. A few days after this third birthday it showed-up. Now, we can find all sorts of lactose-free products in town, but definitely not ricotta cheese.

Luckily, ricotta cheese is extremely easy to make! Continue Reading »

Now, eggplant parmesan sandwiches are a lot more “trouble” to make than a ham and cheese sandwich, but they also taste that much better.

So, here’s to complicated sandwich making! Continue Reading »

So, 5 o’clock rolled around and I didn’t even realize it. Usually, we’re all sitting at the dinner table at that point and eating. But, since I had been preping my bathroom for painting that I was going to do the next day, I lost track of time. With everyone hungry, I had to think quickly.

We had tortillas from the night before when I made hummus, and my husband Googled “simple pizza sauce” and found a fantastic recipe, and the tortilla pizza was born.

They were a really big hit, and we’re made them a few times now and are in love with how quickly they are to make and how good they taste. Continue Reading »

As I mentioned in my last post, I have been quite busy in my garden the last few months, but it hasn’t always been weed-pulling, raking, and watering.

We have had some fun grilling every once in a while the last few months. This specific time we made ribs and grilled vegetable pockets. And, let me “warn” you – the pockets look boring and drab, but they explode with delicious flavor – and they are soooo easy to make!

For the ribs, I made one of my previous recipes and steamed them the night before – this is how they become nice and soft. The recipe calls for just seasoning it with salt and pepper, but next time I will use my dry rub to give it more flavor.

May recipes after the jump: Continue Reading »

Currently, we are obsessed with popovers!

A few weeks ago my husband discovered a recipe for pop overs somewhere while stumbling. To our delight, they are quick and easy to make and taste delicious!

So, plan this for breakfast tomorrow – it is the weekend and you should take the time to pamper yourself.

Originally, the recipe we are using calls for brushing the popovers with melted butter and then rolling them in a cinnamon-sugar combination, but we prefer them plain. They have a fascinating flavor to them. Almost like a crepe. I think they would taste wonderful filled with melted cheddar and ham, others we’ve made these for have thought of filling them with jelly or nutella.

The recipe makes 12, but you may want to make more …they go really really quickly! They are so good that we eat them burning hot, the baby wiggles with excitement when he sees them, and out little one starts jumping.

Here is our recipe: Continue Reading »