It is definitely winter in the northeast, and I know a lot of people are not too thrilled. I personally kind of like the cold, and in particular, I love soup season. Soup is perfect for make-ahead dinners and healthy lunches, a major necessity this time of year in my house. In light of my 2018 food goals, I tried my hand at converting one of my favorite Barefoot Contessa recipes soups into a ketogenic-friendly Cream of Wild Mushroom Soup. It is packed with rich mushroom flavor, deeply rich and creamy, and has all the gluten and most of the carbohydrates eliminated. … [Read more...]
Roasted vegetable and goat cheese pasta salad
This is my go-to recipe for fall entertaining, so it was time to share it with all of you. I am pretty sure I first found this recipe 15 years ago on the side of a Gladware storage container. My attempts to find the original source were futile, so here's the version I keep in my Evernote recipe file. Not claiming full originality here, but hey, it's pasta salad. … [Read more...]
summer salad with jersey tomatoes
The Jersey tomato. It's the stuff of folklore and legend, and one of the few things this Jersey Girl actually appreciates about summer in New Jersey. Growing up here, I didn't realize how good I had it until I tried tomatoes elsewhere - bland at best, mealy at worst. I now understand why my mom used to make us stop at the roadside stand near Grandma's … [Read more...]
sweetly simple balsamic-marinated skirt steak
I have a tendency to dive straight into the deep end. I like to think of it is as go big or go home, but others might describe this particular quirk a bit differently. Circa 1996, right around the time I began cooking for two, this tendency led me to begin my self-guided culinary education with The Martha Stewart Cookbook. … [Read more...]
