Rounding out our at-home Valentine's Day menu, we're visiting a warm barley salad that will stand on its own while complementing the flavors in our earlier salmon and asparagus dish. This salad has it all, including perfectly sautéed mushrooms and shallots!
Portabella mushroom caps get the main course treatment when they are stuffed with a cheesy pasta filling and sprinkled with garlic-butter bread crumbs before being baked to perfection. Add an elegant salad and a glass of white wine and dinner is served!
Halfway through January, it's time to reward ourselves for not being frozen solid (yet) with a glorious breakfast or brunch of savory crepes. Congratulations for staying thawed!
When it's burger time, make sure you are putting together something worthy of company even if you're making a quick midweek dinner. It's good to make sure you are treating yourself in all those little ways that matter so much!
Sometimes, a recipe gets something special from fresh ingredients. Sometimes, it's actually better to turn to specific preserved ingredients for certain recipes. The noodle recipe in this post uses dried shiitake mushrooms and wouldn't be as good with fresh!
We all get busy and it seems like summer, while it would be wonderful for relaxing in the hammock in the backyard, is just as busy or busier than every other season. So this year, we're going to be sharing some special meal ideas that can be on the table in 30 minutes.
Sometimes life surprises you when it sets a challenge before you and you rise to the occasion better than you had anticipated. Sometimes life is hard and you are ready for that. And sometimes … the challenge just answers itself and you barely need to do a thing to succeed. We all need those challenges too!
Mushrooms are super anytime of the year, but winter affords us an opportunity to pair them with intense ingredients like blue cheese and serve them alongside everything from roasted meat to slow-cooked soups. What's more, if you happen to have a gluten allergy, this approach doesn't leave you in appetizer limbo since they are entirely gluten free!
