Pizza Margherita

Night #2 of our Five Nights of Pizza experiment: Pizza Margherita.
This pizza takes us to the next stop in pizza history. Well, almost the next stop.

Olympus Honey Bread

Here is our ancient Greek sweet pizza, which we made from the sweet ingredients we didn’t feel we could include on our dinner pizza on the first stop in pizza history.

Pizza Alexander

Guacamole Chicken

I went into the kitchen this afternoon with no real inspiration regarding dinner. But as I started pulling out things from my fridge, this meal began to take shape. It was wildly successful, I’m happy to report!

Tuscan Pesto Chicken Panino

At 5:50 p.m., my husband asked me, “Is there a plan for dinner?” And I stared blankly at him. Thirty minutes later, we put this on the table:

I will post the things we put on it, but I do hope you realize the point of this post is to show you how to [...]

Some Easter dinner menu suggestions

Reposting this from last year:
I must confess: I am not cooking Easter dinner this year. In fact, I have nothing to do with Easter dinner this year. We’ll be eating Easter dinner with my sister-in-law Clair and her husband Paul. Both of them of wonderful cooks, so I suspect that I’ll be in for a [...]

Some pictures to make you drool:

I took a little trip to the St. Paul Farmer’s Market yesterday morning, (deliciously wrapped in a sweatshirt and Goretex jacket–we finally have cool weather!) and came home, having spent about $30. Here’s my haul:

A peck of cucumbers, half a peck of tomatoes, some very beautiful heirloom PURPLE tomatoes, a bunch of fingerling potatoes [...]

Orange Blush Cocktail

We’ve invented a beautiful new pre-dinner cocktail, and had to share a photo and the method:

Revisiting Fajitas

Back in January, I wrote about fajitas because they really are a favorite food in our home. This week was a warm, busy week and I learned something new about fajitas. I GRILLED everything. The results were fabulous and I must recommend them to you.

Warm Sunday evening on the front porch

Some summer evenings are just too warm for a hot meal and today was one of those days. We eat most of our meals out on our front porch at this time of year. Tonight my goal was to create dinner out of the contents of my fridge and NOT use my oven or stove. [...]