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Loaded Feta Fries with Chipotle Lime Sauce

Crispy, well-seasoned homemade fries are impressive enough; but when you load them up with feta, pumpkin seeds, brown butter, cilantro and a chipotle lime greek yogurt dipping sauce, they become…

Grapefruit + Pear Granita

Grapefruit + Pear Granita
Slow Cooker Banh Mi Street Tacos
Smashed Sweet Potatoes with Brown Butter + Thyme

Thanksgiving is next week!  Finally!  We’ve made our first big grocery run for our first ever Friendsgiving gathering, and preparations are officially underway in the Adventure.  Gather.  Eat. kitchen.  The…

Brown Sugar Bruleed Grapefruit

Bruleed grapefruit is just an ordinary grapefruit that’s been topped with brown sugar and then torched to crispy, caramelly burnt sugar perfection. It’s easily one of the most impressive (yet effortless)…

Honeycrisp + Arugula Salad with Maple + Mustard Vinaigrette

Fresh farmer’s market greens + sweet, Honeycrisp apples + salty feta cheese + peppery candied hazelnuts + an easy homemade mustardy vinaigrette = the best salad you’ll eat this fall. …

Butternut Squash + Goat Cheese Spread

While everyone else is obsessing over pumpkin-everything, I decided to make the humble butternut squash the star of this versatile, autumn spread.  October is prime squash season when every good gardener…

Root Vegetable Skillet Hash

Root Vegetable Skillet Hash

Another week, another seasonal, farmer’s market inspired recipe in the books.  These lovely veggies need little transformation to become an impressive side-dish — just a drizzle of oil and vinegar,…

Oven Baked Bacon

The secret to perfectly rendered bacon every time?  Your oven.  No mess, no spattering, no half-burnt-half-raw pieces, no need to make 6 different batches.  Just one tray full of perfect…

Well, here it is!  My first blog post in about six months and the very first published recipe from the annual Valentine’s Fundraiser Dinner at Grace Christian School!   Blood Orange…

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