~ salted caramel dipped strawberries & pink moscato ~ A romantic date night dessert. The sweetness of the strawberries and the richness of the salted buttery caramel are even more lovely when paired with a blushing pink moscato wine. Remember to pat those washed strawberries completely dry before dipping them in the melted caramel, or…
~ shrimp toast ~ serves 6 We made these addictive little appetizers yesterday over a lovely bottle of wine. They never made it to the table…we just stood in the kitchen and ate them as soon as they were ready. Shrimp toast is the perfect beginning to an Asian themed meal and would be beautiful…
~ “cherry on top” salad ~ serves 2 I’ve been having fun experimenting with lots of different fruit in my recipes since discovering Oregon canned fruit. I must confess, I fell for the gorgeous vintage-looking labels on the cans. There’s a craft I’ll be sharing with you in the very near future that will show…
smelling :: the many Weber grills cooking many steaks and brats and fish and various other grillables as we walked downtown to get cocktails and appetizers this fine date night… and the thunder storm that’s on it’s way! seeing :: all kinds of shrubs and flowers in bloom tasting :: really good wine, pork and…
~ baby cakes ~ Yesterday I had the house to myself and decided to make a special breakfast to go with my tea before I started working. I made some of Jean-George’s proper scrambled eggs topped with tiny grape tomatoes, and little mashed potato pancakes with the baby bliss potatoes I had roasted the evening…