I would bet a good chocolate cake that when most of us hear the words “Salsa Verde” we think of the amazing blend of tomatillos, lime, jalapeños and salt that runs wild across our fantasies of dunking chips and street taco bliss. My inner Latina girl highly approves of this…
Kaffir Lime Curd
The first time I met a Kaffir lime in the flesh I thought it looked like a wrinkly lime green zombie brain. Really. Really. Kaffir limes are sweetly scented with floral notes. You can find them in Asian or Indian markets. If you can’t find them, regular limes or lemons…
Duck Bacon Jam with Coffee & Thyme
Apparently, I am going for decadent as possible in this week’s posts – between the Melted Ice Cream French Toast on Monday and the Duck Bacon Jam today, it would appear that I am trying to take a few years off of all our lives. On the flip side, carpe…
Anise Cardamom Plum Jam
Fall is in the air, but it is the tail end of the summer stone fruit season. I do everything in my power to cling to summer and that means bottling up both my summer memories and summer plums. These beauties are at their peak right now and I had…
Grandmother’s Dressing – a Tale of Shameless Recipe Altering
I have a recipe box – old, ugly, scratched and stuffed full. It would make an Instagrammer cringe with how non-photogenic it is, and it in no way reflects my deep inner philosophy of the soul of food. Or my sense of personal style. Or whatever. Oh, and it’s a…