“Where would we be without salt?” – James Beard

Category Archives: Snack

Homemade Potato Chips

In a recent cooking class I taught we made homemade potato chips. We then sprinkled said chips with a spice mix composed of fennel seeds, coriander, fennel pollen and salt and pepper. Since that class I can’t stop making these chips. Please, help me stop making these chips.
They are light and airy, fried to a [...]

Quick Pickled Red Onions

Quick. It’s not too late. In fact, don’t rush – you still have time – this recipe is fast and easy.
I am having such a hard time believing that 4th of July is this weekend already. Excuse me one moment – MY BABY GIRL IS GOING TO BE HERE SO SOON! WAHHOOOEEE!! Okay thanks.
With only [...]

Beet Hummus and a chance to win some crazy cool chico bags

I recently found myself in a bit of a produce dilemma. A fridge full of beets and a family that thinks “they taste like dirt”. Being Dutch I am not able to let anything go to waste. Another solution was in order.
I began my search for a beet recipe that might entice my otherwise resistant [...]

Shortbread: two ways

Part 2.

I realize that it has been weeks and quite possibly longer  since I’ve posted something savory. ‘Tis the Season! But don’t worry mom, I have been eating my vegetables  – it’s just so fun to talk about sugar.
That changes today. Sort of. There is still sugar in the recipe but there is also an [...]

Garlic Scapes

Garlic Scapes are a thing of beauty.

We haven’t known each other very long but I am already in love. We met last Summer. It was a beautiful day in June – a Tuesday actually. I always anticipated Tuesdays as a heaping box of fresh produce landed on my door step around noon every other week. [...]

Kettle Cooked

It is quite cold here these days. The kind of cold that manages to find its way into your bones so deep inside that the only cure is a long, scalding shower. It is gray too making everything outside a somber, monochromatic tone.

I do enjoy this time of the year with all the excitement of [...]

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