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Farmers Market Salad with Spiced Goat Cheese Medallions

Farmers Market Salad with Spiced Goat Cheese Medallions is a beautiful composed salad, that makes the best of all that great summer produce that’s available. All summer long, I have been reaping the benefits of someone else’s labor, and loving every minute of it, especially with recipes like this one. I refer to the glorious …

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Grilled Eggplant, Red Pepper and Fresh Mozzarella Ciabatta Sandwich

This Grilled Eggplant, Red Pepper and Fresh Mozzarella Ciabatta Sandwich recipe is super simple in terms of preparation, and the payoff is HUGE! You’ll taste crusty bread, meaty grilled eggplant, sweet and pungent roasted red peppers, melty-creamy-dreamy mozzarella, and the zingy bite of creamy garlic mayo. Yowzer! This one is definitely going into our summer …

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Grilled Ratatouille Pasta with Roasted Garlic and Fresh Mozzarella

 Grilled Ratatouille Pasta with Roasted Garlic and Fresh Mozzarella is a recipe that contains all the flavors that, to me, are quintessentially summer.   Behold the brilliant colors (and flavors) of summer! Love it! Grilled Ratatouille? It’s almost officially summer, my friends, and the tomatoes, zucchini, peppers and eggplant will be rolling in before you know …

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Grilled Trout with Browned Butter, Caper and Pine Nut Vinaigrette

Interested in a RIDICULOUSLY EASY AND DELICIOUS recipe for the next time you grill some fish? This recipe is not just for grilled trout, but for any kind of fish, actually. The secret to the deliciousness of this recipe for grilled trout is a vinaigrette, made with browned butter, capers, and pine nuts. Three of …

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Spaghetti and Venison Meatballs

The Venison Meatballs from this recipe of homemade Italian Spaghetti and Venison Meatballs are so delicious they’re addictive. Once you’ve cooked them, and sampled one, you will wonder how there will ever be enough left for dinner. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.      Can I Use Beef, Rather Than Venison? DON’T be put off by …

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Pizza Bianca with Goat Cheese and Swiss Chard

Pizza Bianca With Swiss Chard and Goat Cheese: How about a pizza recipe that is straight from Italy, that will use the greens you have lying around and need to eat? This recipe utilizes Swiss Chard, the best tasting green, garlic, and goat cheese! Yum!  Swiss Chard I found the original recipe for this pizza …

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Extravagantly Excellent Eggplant Parmigiana

Extravagantly Excellent Eggplant Parmigiana I can hear you now: Eggplant Parmigiana? Eggplant???  I HATE eggplant! And honestly, at one point in my life, I would have said exactly the same thing. I grew up hating eggplant. I was raised, in fact, on the hatred of eggplant. Nasty, bitter, detestable stuff, eggplant. I was disgusted by …

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Chicken and Chickpea Tagine with Apricots and Harissa Sauce

   I couldn’t decide whether to call this dish “Chicken and Chickpea Tagine” or “Bobby Flay, I Think I Love You”. I really wanted to give it the name of the Food Network chef, but I was scared the search engines wouldn’t figure out what I wanted people to be able to find. But YOU …

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Spaghetti al Vino Bianco: Spaghetti Cooked in White Wine

Spaghetti al Vino Bianco is a recipe for pasta that finishes cooking in a sauce made with reduced white wine. Add bacon, arugula, and Parmigiano- Reggiano to finish the dish.   I’ve been wanting to try a recipe similar to this, written by Mario Batali. Batali had shared a recipe where he cooked pasta in red …

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