How To Make Homemade Butter

May 15, 2012 By 26 Comments

Make your own homemade butter, you’re thinking?  Yes, I freely admit it…sometimes I wake up purely and simply obsessed with making something that is completely available in large stacks in the supermarket.  A little while ago it happened to me with fresh ricotta, which one day I inexplicably NEEDED to make, and you know what?  It was easy, and fast, and fabulous.  So when the urge to make homemade butter struck me, I did it.  I went all Laura Ingalls Wilder and Made My Own Butter.  And once again…easy, fast and fabulous.  Here’s what happened.
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Honey Chicken Stir-Fry

May 13, 2012 By 8 Comments

I love a good stir-fry!  They are usually quick (yay!), reasonably healthy (yay!) and scrumptious (triple yay!).  The perfect quick/healthy/scrumptious thing to make at the end of a long and not so scrumptious day.  So break out the skillet (or if you are fancier than me, kitchen equipement-wise, the wok) and away we go!
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Linguine with Bacon, Goat Cheese and Sugar Snap Peas

May 10, 2012 By 10 Comments

Linguine with bacon, goat cheese and sugar snap peas?  I have officially decided that this is my new favorite spring recipe.  Because if for no other reason, I simply love saying “sugar snaps.”  There’s something so, well, spring-like about how that sounds…full of sparkle and possibilities, just like spring!  And if you add a little bacon to the equation….do I really need to say more?
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Fresh Mint Tea

May 8, 2012 By 8 Comments

Fresh mint tea is one of the ways I know that yes, spring is here for sure.  Because out of all my brave herbs out there in my kitchen barrel gardens, the mint is always the first one to leaf out, and just like that, winter is gone and summer is just around the corner.  And one the best ways to celebrate (especially on those spring days when there is still a little chill in the air) is a warm, sweet-smelling cup of the easiest tea in the world to make.
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Veal Scallopine with Asparagus

May 6, 2012 By 8 Comments

There’s something about spring that just makes me think, asparagus, asparagus, asparagus.  I am drawn to asparagus like a moth to a flame, and while I am always perfectly happy to have it steamed with just a drizzle of olive oil and sea salt, if I can incorporate it into a full-on elegant dinner, so much the better!  That’s one of the things I love about this recipe.  The other is that it is one of those priceless recipes that you can pull out for a fancy dinner party…or make on a regular old Tuesday night.  That’s how quick and wonderful it is.  Because on some Tuesday nights, you need and deserve a dinner party dinner.  Right?  Right.
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Ham and Pineapple Biscuit Sliders with Spicy Honey Mustard

May 3, 2012 By 10 Comments

Somedays you just NEED to have a ham sandwich, and I’ll be the first one to say there’s nothing wrong with a good old, plain old ham and cheese.  But…what would happen if ham sandwiches took a cue from their hamburger cousins, and turned into slider form?  I’m talking shaved, salty, delicious ham on a soft, warm, buttermilk biscuit.  I’m talking curly lettuce and a little bit of grilled pineapple.  And I’m talking topping the whole thing off with a nice slathering of this.
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