Pumpkin Breakfast Pudding
It’s as cooling as it is warm with the deep yet bright notes of cardamom which is accentuated by the complexity of buckwheat honey. The pumpkin brings a freshness and cottage cheese keeps it light with acidity while bringing a creamy texture.
Spiced Pear and Ricotta Salad
This salad has it all – the sweetness of fried pears are balanced by bitter and spicy greens and mellowed by creamy ricotta. The deep flavors are brightened by a fall spiced vinaigrette, and wrapped up in the crunch of roasted sunflower seeds.
Tomato, Cucumber, and Onion Salad
A salad can’t get much more refreshing or more summery than tomatoes, cucumbers, and onions topped with olive oil and vinegar. It’s flashy and classy. It belongs equally at a potluck picnic or on a fine dinner table.
Cucumber Chips
If you like dill pickle potato chips, you’ll love these little bites of crunchy delight. They’re tangy, a little bit spicy, and oh so crunchy!
Roasted Butternut Squash and Peanut Salad
This salad has almost everything I love in food, the deep notes of caramel in the squash, the brightness of fresh herbs, the grounding peanuts, and the fruity tanginess of pomegranate molasses.
Dandelion Fritters
The cornmeal gives the most delightful crunch while the petals give you a nice chew. If you’re hesitant to try them, please do, they’re delicious. The fritters remind me of fried fish but with the most delicate of herb flavors.
Beet and Burrata Salad with Grapefruit Vinaigrette
It’s fabulously fresh with a citrusy vinaigrette. It’s sassy with crunchy broiled grapefruit that brings tartness but sweet with yellow beets to cut the sour. Burrata brings a creaminess to the salad, yet remains light, and pistachios compliment all of the components.
Pomegranate and Cranberry Salad with Spiced Orange Vinaigrette
It’s light and feisty with spicy greens, mandarins, pomegranate, cranberries, and pecans. The salad is perfect to pair with a rich holiday meal or to use leftover Thanksgiving ingredients to create a filling salad. The beauty of this salad is almost anything goes and the point is to have a delicious dish while cleaning out your fridge.
Charred Carrots with Apple Brown-Butter Vinaigrette
Charring carrots brings on a marvelous complex of sweet and deep that is brightened yet grounded with apples, lemon, and browned butter.
Cabbage with Onions Two Ways
Cabbage and onions are simply buttery bliss or you can take them one step further and turn them into fritters. Either way you’ll wish you knew this recipe a long time ago.
Stuffed Apples
Stuffed Apples is hardly a name for such a delectable dessert that boasts the freshness of fall apples paired with the warm fall flavors of nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, and mace in one of the best custards you’ve ever had that is tied together with a crisp meringue.
Halloween Salad: Cabbage, Carrot, Raisin, Pecan Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
The perfect Halloween festive salad that is as tasty as it is colorful. It’s bold, sweet, salty, and has texture for days. The dressing brings the perfect amount of zing that balances the sweeter components.
Cucumber and Peanut Salad with Tahini Dressing
Cooling cucumbers give you all the freshness you want on a hot day and peanuts and tahini bring you an earthiness to keep you satisfied.
Peach and Almond Salad with Creamy Lemon Basil Dressing
The dressing is so smooth and bright with the luxurious feel of a creamy dressing but the freshness and palate cleansing components of a vinaigrette.
Rutabaga and Apple Hash
It’s a bit sweet and a bit sassy. It’s a mouth full of flavor and texture that lends to beaucoup amounts of pairings. Top it with an egg for breakfast, or as a side to braised beef, baked chicken, or broiled fish.
Roasted Red Pepper Soup with Star Anise
This soup is about the unexpected. It’s light and bright and pairs perfectly with the heaviest of winter meals. Star anise and ginger keeps the soup bright and cilantro keeps it fresh during winter’s produce lull.
Chickpeas and Spinach with Sweet Potato and Yogurt Sauce
The chickpea stew creates the perfect base to compliment the sweetness and richness of buttered sweet potatoes. The tanginess of yogurt keeps things exciting and fresh.
Apple, Spinach, and Pecan Salad with Apple Butter Browned Butter Vinaigrette
Apple, Spinach, and Pecan Salad with Apple Butter Browned Butter Vinaigrette is fresh with fall’s bounty and grounded by the decadence of apple butter and browned butter.
Cabbage, Apples, and Pomegranate with Blue Cheese Honey Vinaigrette
Fall on a plate is delicious. It’s bright and light and funky and deep. It’s fall’s way of saying, “Nuhuhn summer, no need to battle me, I got the goods”.