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Grilled Fig Pizza Recipe

Grilled Fig and Goat Cheese Pizza Recipe

Easy grilled fig and goat cheese pizza made with my rustic thin crust pizza dough, creamy whipped goat cheese, sweet fresh purple figs and caramelized onions. If your taste buds are into purple figs and goat cheese, and you fancy pizza as much as i do, then i got us the loveliest grilled fig pizza appetizer today!  I am on a goat cheese kick right now, it started with the goat cheese crostini and tomato tart, and I simply can’t get enough. Also, it so happens that fig harvest is here. ...

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Autumn Salad Recipe

Autumn Salad Recipe with Roasted Butternut Squash

The best autumn salad recipe, highlighting fall produce like roasted butternut squash, beets and brussel sprouts on a bed of heirloom black rice dressed in a citrusy blood orange vinaigrette.  | Food style by: Florentina | Food Photo by: MihaMatei.com | The perfect autumn inspired salad to feed a crowd and a staple at our Thanksgiving / Friendsgiving dinner party.   As soon as the temperatures drop and it is bearable to blast my oven, the harvest vegetable roasting begins. From butternut ...

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Italian Beef Stew Recipe

Italian Beef Stew Recipe

A rustic Italian beef stew recipe or " Stufato di Manzo " with red wine gravy, tomatoes, mushrooms and potatoes. Italy in a pot! Who’s bringing the wine ? I used all mine in the stew, so it is a drunkard style dinner tonight!  Just like in the case of a rugu alla Bolognese, there are endless variations of Italian beef stew recipes as well. From family to family, from region to region, from one season to the next, this one pot wonder changes like a chameleon. I sure do hope that makes ...

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Italian Chicken Cacciatore Recipe

Italian Chicken Cacciatore Recipe

Easy Italian Chicken Cacciatore recipe, an authentic Hunter Style Chicken Stew in Red Wine Sauce with Italian San Marzano Tomatoes and Wild Mushrooms! You can finish it on the stove top, bake it in the oven or the slow cooker.  You knew I was gonna bring an authentic, easy Italian Chicken Cacciatore recipe from Italy for you. How could I not, right ?! Especially because this is a regular at the shack, healthy, light, gluten free and so easy to make. Not to mention perfect for a crowd! There ...

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Golden Chanterelle Leek Brown Rice Risotto Recipe

Brown Rice Risotto Recipe with Leeks & Golden Chanterelle Mushrooms

The creamiest, most flavorful brown rice risotto with leeks and golden chanterelle mushrooms. Look at this brown rice golden chanterelle leek risotto I made for us! I mean, healthy comfort food was mandatory as the chanterelle season just began. Plus it started pouring rain out of the blue. Yes for Southern California this is a huge deal, Amen and Hallelujah, we need the rain like, well, like the Dessert needs the Rain I guess.. I hope that makes sense, If not forgive me, I just started ...

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Sauteed Chicken Livers in White Wine

Nutrition packed sauteed chicken livers in a leek white wine sauce, the absolute best chicken livers recipe! Sauteed chicken livers it’s what’s for dinner kids! Absolutely channeling grandpa today, because the day we had sauteed chicken livers was a really special day. It was a true delicacy back in the day, and in the peasant's life this was the equal of your finest grass-fed fillet mignon today. Not even kidding about that, sauteed chicken livers in white wine leaves a gravy behind you'll ...

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Roasted Tomato Soup Recipe

Roasted Tomato Soup Recipe

A rustic Italian roasted tomato soup recipe made with the last of summer's heirloom tomatoes, slowly roasted with garlic, onions and a splash of white wine! This roasted tomato soup recipe kids, ahhh! But before I even dive into telling you about how I could eat this each day every day, spring, summer, fall and winter until the end of time, I’ll rewind a little to explain how this actually came to be.  To make my recipe make some sense, you'll need to rewind a couple of weeks back. My ...

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