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Summer Market Risotto

August 3, 2015 By Katrina

Summer Market Risotto

Ah, summer farmers markets. I can’t think of a better way to spend a Saturday morning, especially when the weather’s nice and the stands are overflowing with such great stuff. And even if it’s a little too sticky outside to be comfortable, the bounty is usually worth it. No, it’s always worth it. I’d walk…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Pasta/Rice/Grains Tagged With: arborio, dinner, farmers market, food, fresh from the oven, lunch, market, recipes, rice, risotto, seasonal, summer

Dinner in a pinch, made to impress! Puff pastry with ham & Gruyère

October 17, 2014 By Katrina

Dinner in a pinch, made to impress! Puff pastry with ham & Gruyère

This time of year is so, so hectic (though we probably always feel like our lives are crazy busy, right?). When I think of an easy fall dinner, I often base its viability on a simple pre-trick-or-treating test. Basically, is it something that could be easily made and quickly served to a family (friends included!)…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Easy Weeknight Dinners, Fresh from the oven, Meat/Eggs, Pizza/Sandwiches Tagged With: appetizers, autumn, baking, brunch, cheese, dinner, easy recipes, fall, fall recipes, food, Gruyere, ham, ham and cheese, ham and Gruyere in puff pastry, lunch, puff pastry, recipes, side dishes, weeknight meal

Forget the French fries: Salt and vinegar potatoes

March 5, 2013 By Katrina

Forget the French fries: Salt and vinegar potatoes

I love recipes that take a bit of work to put together, the kind that use a ridiculous amount of kitchenware, loads of ingredients and a fair amount of time before they even reach the oven. There’s something so satisfying about all that work, both in the finished dishes you’ve created and the chaos they…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Most Popular, Vegetarian Tagged With: baking, cooking, easy recipes, food, fresh from the oven, potatoes, rice vinegar, roasting, rosemary, salt and vinegar potatoes, side dishes, thyme, vegetarian

On top of spaghetti: Fast and easy meatballs

October 1, 2012 By Katrina

On top of spaghetti: Fast and easy meatballs

While making a grocery list yesterday, I took a minute to peruse the recipe index on the blog for a few meal ideas for the upcoming week. During said search, two facts become abundantly clear: No. 1, we eat a lot of cookies. And No. 2, if our lives took place in Land Before Time,…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Meat/Eggs Tagged With: appetizers, beef, classic beef meatballs, classic meatballs, cooking, dinner, food, fresh from the oven, lunch, meat, meatballs, recipes, The Meatball Shop

Easy (and lovely!) Asparagus Gruyere Tart

April 17, 2012 By Katrina

Easy (and lovely!) Asparagus Gruyere Tart

Although I will always and forever be a winter girl at heart (hence the yearly stream of holiday tunes and bi-weekly watching of Christmas movies), there are plenty of things to love about springtime. After all, if the outside can’t be covered in snow, it might as well be green and leafy and flowery and…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Easy Weeknight Dinners, Fresh from the oven, Pies/Tarts, Vegetarian Tagged With: asparagus, asparagus Gruyere tart, baking, cooking, food, fresh from the oven, Gruyere, healthy recipes, light meal, puff pastry, recipes, spring, spring recipes, tart

Pretty on Pinterest = yummy in the tummy

March 9, 2012 By Katrina

Pretty on Pinterest = yummy in the tummy

The old adage says you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, and in most cases that’s super sage advice. I can think of some great books I’ve read that would have been labeled absolute duds if left to rely on their dusty old jackets. When it comes to food, however, the same isn’t entirely…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Pizza/Sandwiches, Vegetarian Tagged With: appetizer, baking, brunch, dinner, easy dinners, easy recipes, feta, food, fresh from the oven, lunch, puff pastry, quick dinners, recipes, savory recipes, spinach, strudel, tomato and olive strudel, vegetarian

Go ahead, bake some love

February 13, 2012 By Katrina

Go ahead, bake some love

I’ve been on a bit of a blogging hiatus as of late. And no, this wasn’t the kick-up-your-heels, toes-in-the-sand, relaxy-taxi kind of hiatus. Rather, it was the holy-moly-I-have-so-much-to-do-my-brain-will-surely-explode-if-I-add-one-more-thing-to-my-to-do-list kind of hiatus. You know the kind, right? It’s when you go to bed around midnight and say to yourself, “That’s all I can do today. I’ll…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Pies/Tarts, Vegetarian Tagged With: baking, brunch, dinner, easy recipes, food, fresh from the oven, lunch, puff pastry, tart, tomato tartin, tomatoes

Horseradish, I think we can be friends now.

April 18, 2011 By Katrina

Horseradish, I think we can be friends now.

What in the world did we do before Google? Remember in the olden days, when we’d have a question about something and had to dig around in the encyclopedia (or Encarta on the computer, for the high-tech folks), the dictionary or our own noggins to find the information we were looking for? Now when I’m…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Salads, Vegetarian Tagged With: cooking, dill, Food52, horseradish, picnic foods, potato salad, recipes, side dishes, vegetarian

Roasted carrots: Simple? Yes. Delicious? Definitely.

April 1, 2011 By Katrina

Roasted carrots: Simple? Yes. Delicious? Definitely.

There is simple but profound nugget of wisdom I’ve discovered during this long, snowy wintertime of root vegetable eating: All root vegetables (and arguably any vegetable, for that matter) taste better roasted. Something lovely and miraculous happens when those chunks of vegetable goodness take a dive in olive oil, followed by a slight sprinkling of…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Most Popular, Vegetarian Tagged With: healthy snacks, roasted carrots, roasted vegetables, side dishes, vegetables, vegetarian

Back to basics: Dill fingerling potatoes

February 24, 2011 By Katrina

Back to basics: Dill fingerling potatoes

In many ways, a potato is just that — a potato. It’s plain, starchy, simple and unpretentious. It doesn’t pretend to be fancy, require loads of prep work or demand an onslaught of unfamiliar ingredients to make it an edible dish. Potatoes are like the ultimate blank canvas, and it really only takes one or…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Vegetarian Tagged With: Barefood Contessa, cooking, dill, dill fingerling potatoes, Ina Garten, potatoes, recipes, side dishes, vegetarian

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