Archive For June, 2011
Nana, Kidlet and Babyzilla went peach picking with me and we came back with a ridiculous booty of sweet Georgia peaches. What I didn’t know about peaches is that even if they’re hard when you pick them, by day 2-3 they will have softened up. These peaches were beautiful and picture perfect when we picked [...]
Based on the last few recipes I’ve whipped up I ended up with an abundance of fresh corn and basil, some spinach tortellini, some mozzarella, and a half a bottle of low sodium V8 juice (of all things). Well turns out if you throw it all together it makes a might fine summer supper. Quick [...]
Ok that sounds really fancy, but this is a super simple dish which resulted from me simultaneously craving pesto tortellini (my favorite pasta shape) and a caprese salad with fresh mozzarella. Turns out if you throw it all together it’s doubly delish. Here I’m serving it cold, as a salad, but it works perfectly well [...]
After graduating from college I took a road trip, following my Grandma, to Buffalo NY where I was to start my first “real job.” Along the way we stopped to visit my Aunt & Uncle in Ohio. Somewhere amidst MILES and MILES of corn, we stopped at a roadside farmstand and bought corn for a [...]
Originally I was going to use cucumbers for this salad, but there were none in stock, surprisingly. So I thought what else is juicy with a nice bite, and for some reason cantaloupe popped into my mind and it works really well because it brings sweetness to the salad. 1 Cantaloupe, peeled, seeded and sliced [...]
