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 ...
Vegetarian Recipes
Healthy Green Pea Soup Recipe with Leeks
A simple and healthy homemade green pea soup made with frozen peas and lots of flavorful leeks, chive oil and served with a poached egg. This healthy leek soup recipe is my gift to us: the leek and green pea lovers! By all means feel free to use fresh peas here If you have them, I figure most people probably just have the organic frozen bags in the back of their freezer handy at all times, which makes this recipe very convenient. Without ham and ham hock you guys, because ...
Honey Balsamic Roasted Figs Recipe
Sicilian honey roasted figs with vanilla and aged balsamic glaze. Lovely served with goat cheese, perfect as a pastry filling, pizza topping, in a salad, or have them for dessert over whipped ricotta or frozen yogurt. We came home from Sicily to a loaded fig tree in the back yard, so these to die for roasted figs with honey were begging to be made. I brought a nice big jar of wild Sicilian honey, and this was just the perfect occasion to dive into ...
11 Goat Cheese Log Recipe Ideas
11 Epic Ways to Dress Up a Goat Cheese Log! From cranberries to chocolate, pistachio and chives, these goat cheese logs are sure to steal the show! Please don’t hate, but this week has been all about discovering goat cheese log recipe ideas. Because everyone loves a cheese board, and how can you have a cheese board without the incredible goat cheese log display, right ?! Impossible! Yes, you can buy some gourmet goat cheese logs at the store, but they won’t be anything like what you can ...
Tomato Ricotta Tart Recipe
An exquisite Italian tomato ricotta art recipe made with flavorful heirlooms, creamy ricotta and pockets of burrata cheese! This ricotta tomato tart recipe is everything kids! Especially because you know me, I don’t always bake, but when I do, it’s gotta be with some creamy ricotta cheese ! You know, ricotta muffins, ricotta cake, ricotta pizza ! Yum! I really can not help myself with all those insanely beautiful heirloom tomatoes around me. You do know how me and tomatoes have had a thing ...
Baked Potato Bar Recipe
A festive baked potato bar made with hasselback potatoes and lovely toppings, from chive pesto to ragu all bolognese! The reason I decided to share this inspiration for a holiday baked potato bar, is because I realized how easy it really is to set up. Not to mention how loved by everyone it is, including the kids, so get ready for your best baked potato adventure to date! I'm not kidding, that's what the BatMan said. Best part is that as a host you can absolutely prepare all your toppings ...
Ribollita Soup Recipe
A rustic ribollita soup recipe made with sweet butternut squash, parmigiano-reggiano rinds, cannellini beans and lots of garlicky bruschetta to help mop up your bowls clean! A traditional Tuscan soup or ribollita Toscana, meaning reboiled or cooked the day before serving, ribollita is traditionally made with stale bread, black/lacinato kale and the rinds from parmigiano-reggianno cheese. So, how about a steaming hot bowl of butternut squash ribollita soup? Tough I am seeing Christmas stuff ...
Broccoli Spinach Soup Recipe
Healthy, creamy and paleo Broccoli Spinach Soup made with flavorful leeks and brought to perfection by a golden poached egg! There’s no need for cream or milk in this easy recipe. This soup is naturally smooth and creamy on its own with just a little help from a couple of potatoes. Did I say ready in 20 minutes ? Tough it os packed with nutrition already, you could even add some kale to the mix and a splash of coconut milk for an extra healthy spin If you wanted to. We love this the ...
Espresso Pumpkin Nut Bread Recipe
An Espresso Pumpkin Nut Bread Recipe for the coffee and pumpkin lovers of the world. Let's get caffeinated! Wake up and smell the coffee, and the pumpkins, because this the season to pumpkin everything. That's it! No more tomatoes, but please don't quote me on that one tough... You know how I roll.. Brace yourselves for pumpkin lattes, pumpkin breads, pumpkin stews and soups and plain old pumpkin out of the can. What ..? It's good for you, trust me! Have you ever tried putting it on your ...
Chive Pesto Potato Salad Recipe
A simple summer chive Pesto Potato Salad that is creamy and healthy, no mayo and no yuckies, sprinkled with toasted nuts! Just fresh onion Chives cut from the garden buzzed up together with extra virgin olive oil, pine nuts or pepitas, a little zing from red wine vinegar. Then I tossed that with golden baby potatoes ( you could use the red ones too) cooked al dente, so they hold up together to the pesto Sauce. If your Chives are in bloom, by all means sprinkle some of those gorgeous purple ...