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Baked Eggs with Lemon, Cream, and Poppy Seeds {and a Cookbook Giveaway!}
We have a sneaking suspicion that lemons are about to be the new superfood (if that happens, you read it here first). It’s not that we don’t love our kale and quinoa, we just need a little more...
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Garlic Cheese Biscuits
I grew up in a Poppin’ Fresh family. My mother was not a baker, and had no desire to be one. On those occasions when biscuits came into play, she bought a roll of Pillsbury dough and asked one of us...
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Lasagna Verde {and a Cookbook Giveaway!}
If ever there was someone who could be enlightened by a vegan cookbook, it would be me. At the risk of being ridiculed (I’m bracing for it now), I’ll admit that I hardly knew what vegan meant until a...
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Marinated Lamb Kebabs with Mint Chimichurri
As you might have noticed (or worse, not noticed), we’ve kind of dropped the cooking ball lately. Both of us have been suddenly inundated with outside (read: non-food) work, while Cookbooks365 quietly...
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Fried Artichokes with Tahini “Tarator”
A long-forgotten food memory made a comeback when I came across this recipe from Sameh Wadi’s The New Mediterranean Table. I remembered an al fresco dinner some years back, under a thatched roof, on a...
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Spaghetti with Arugula Pesto, Salami, and Parmigiano-Reggiano
When my oldest son was making the case for his college of choice last spring, he told us, more than once, that it had the second-best food in the country. According to him (and I’ve never bothered to...
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Crostini with Goat Cheese, Beefsteak Tomatoes, and Red Onion
My four kids were raised to be open minded when it comes to eating. They didn’t have a choice, really; they could eat what I made, or they could decide they weren’t hungry. The upside of that...
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Throwdown-Winning Chicken-Fried Steak
Cowboy cooking is my weakness. Round up all those frontier favorites—big sky, crackling campfires, ponies, and men who cook—throw in some good story-telling, and I’m ravenous. Maybe it was those few...
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S’more Cookies
Okay, let’s get one thing straight. Summer is not over. Big deal that it’s the last day of August. Big deal that the kids are (mostly) back in school, and we’re once again being sucked into the...
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Habanero Salsa
My first-born left for college almost two weeks ago, and if there’s one thing no one prepared me for, it’s the unfamiliar shift of food and eating habits that haunts my kitchen and our (new) family...
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Grilled Zucchini with Yogurt Sauce, Feta, Lemon & Dill
I confess, I don’t love zucchini. But I make it from time to time to give it another chance. Janet Fletcher‘s recipe with a feta, lemon, dill sauce looked fresh and flavorful, and super easy, so I was...
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Traditional Bonito Fish Escabeche
People acquainted with me know that when they ask about my travels, they’ll be treated to a litany of memorable meals before any other details emerge. Yes, I confess to traveling hundreds, maybe even...
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Apple Cider Steamed Mussels with Homemade Fries ~ Moules au Cidre et Frites...
When we first moved to France, our neighbor across the hall insisted that she accompany me to the village marché, introduce me to the proper vendors, and generally help me get the lay of the land. She...
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Wild Greens Pies
The lifelong passion I have for all things Greek was likely sparked by a dearly treasured gift from early childhood, the richly illustrated D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths given to me by my father. The...
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Chocolate Pecan Breakfast Rolls
We all know that the aroma of hot, yeasty, sweet bread just as it comes out of the oven is irresistible. Now imagine the tender, chewy bite of freshly risen buns mingled with a perfectly balanced,...
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Macadamia Nut Banana Bread {and a Cookbook Giveaway!}
My first trip to Hawaii was more than twenty years ago. It was love at first sight, even if I did have to spend much of my time in the shade. The air just feels different, more oxygenated somehow....
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Soup for Syria ~ Fennel Soup with Lemon and Cinnamon
“Soup is elemental, and it always makes sense, even when the world around us fails to.” –Anthony Bourdain “The world has failed Syria’s four million refugees and some of the world’s wealthiest...
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Cameroonian Chicken Roasted in Kraft Paper
Senegal, the westernmost country on the African Continent, boasts a history as varied and colorful as a bustling street market. The nation’s capitol, Dakar, became a hub for European traders in the...
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Neapolitan Cakelettes
I was (am) the youngest of three kids. Which meant my older and bossier siblings pretty much called the shots around our house while I consoled myself with thoughts of how the meek would someday...
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El Real’s Chili con Carne
“If chili is enjoying a revival lately,”, writes Robb Walsh, “it’s not the second coming—more like the third or fourth, depending on when you start counting. The history of chili con carne is deep,...
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