This recipe for Pasta with Roasted Butternut Squash, Pine Nuts, Sage, and Browned Butter is the perfect comfort food for a cozy autumn evening. The first time I had this dish, it was made by Chef Nick Pelegrino, of Mangia, Nashville. Mangia Nashville is a Nashville Treasure Mangia Nashville is one of my favorite restaurants, …
This easy recipe for Spiced Pumpkin Bread has all the beautiful smells of the fall baking season! As the days grow shorter, and the nights grow colder, there’s just something about fall weather that calls us back to the flavors that speak “comfort” to our souls. Year after year, my daughter begs me to make …
Nicole Kidman’s Pasta is a pasta that is unlike any other pasta dish I’d ever had before. It is a vegetarian dish: a pasta that is FRIED to a crispy golden brown. Addictive at first bite, it made me love broccoli in a way I’d never loved broccoli before. I first discovered it when my …
This recipe for Slow Cooker Apple Butter is super easy to make, and unbelievably delicious!!! When September arrives, I am so impatient for fall that I can nearly taste it, and nothing tastes like fall to me quite as much as slow cooker apple butter. In the town that I was born, Berkeley Springs, WV, …
Pumpkin Soup with Apple Cranberry Relish, and Spicy Pepitas is a delicious recipe for fall or winter – especially for when your soul needs a little comfort food. It’s the perfect thing for the winter weather that’s on our horizon. When the weather outside looks frightful, there is nothing that warms the soul and lifts …
Roasted Butternut Squash, Leek, and Ricotta Lasagna with Pine Nuts is the best thing I’ve ever done with those butternut squashes that show up in our CSA boxes or produce departments come fall. The recipe just shouts “autumn”, not only due to its ingredients, but also, because of its seasonal colors and flavors. The Third …
Buttermilk Biscuits with Chives and Black Pepper require no more skill to make than regular homemade biscuits. If you’ve never made biscuits before, homemade biscuits, made from scratch, are easy to do. Yet, they take a somewhat humble bowl of soup, and turn it into a meal that the whole family is thrilled about! A …
This Apple-Pear Salad with Maple Pecan Bacon is the perfect salad for Thanksgiving. Apples, pears, grapes, salad greens, with Maple Pecan Bacon, drizzled with a cranberry vinaigrette! How I Discovered This Apple-Pear Salad I went to a slumber party with my wonderful girlfriends, and came home with the salad of my dreams: Apple-Pear Salad with …