Are there any savoury foods that don’t taste better with pesto? And pesto with olives? Not something I am ever likely to pass up. Today I had some leftover bread dough sitting in a bowl that needed a purpose. It was ever so easy to cut it into bread sticks, top the dough with cilantro pesto sauce and olives, and twist the dough strips just … Continue reading Pesto Olive Bread Twists
These petite hors d’Oeuvres are refreshing, flavorful (thanks to the citrus-spiked pesto), and so simple to make. Once you have pesto sauce made, you need only three ingredients. Another variation on this theme is to add some salad greens to create an entrée salad. The pesto sauce, with a little more olive oil added, serves as the salad dressing. Recipe for Pesto Shrimp Salad Bites … Continue reading Pesto Shrimp Salad Bites
When I see a compelling recipe, I tend to make some version of it as soon as I can (hence the tagline of this blog). The very next day day after seeing this pistachio pesto at 5 and Spice, I was happily blending up some aromatic green sauce of my own. Sadly, it had been more than a year since I had made pesto at … Continue reading Rice Vermicelli with Cilantro Pesto Sauce: A Gluten Free, Dairy Free Recipe
A strong contender for the ultimate spring salad, here we have a simple trifecta of crab, avocado, and asparagus. With surprisingly affordable ingredients, one taste proves that you can indulge in fine fare without paying steep prices. If you happen to be a crab connoisseur, you could opt to splurge on jumbo lumb crab meat for this. However, as a landlocked frugalista, I chose the … Continue reading Crab and Asparagus Salad with Avocado
Breakfast foods that double as desserts are a deliciously worthwhile investment. Whether it is leftover dessert waffles for breakfast, or vice versa, making a big batch of waffles means we can extend our eating pleasure into the next day. And that is exactly what we did, though I served the first “choco waffo” batch as an after-school snack. Taste matters a lot to me, but … Continue reading Chocolate Buckwheat Waffles with Coconut Whipped Cream
All mangoes are not created equal. Ataulfo mangoes, sometime called Manilla mangoes, boast a sweet, creamy orange flesh that has a smoother taste than run-of-the-mill mangoes with red and green skin. Whenever I see a good looking mango, I buy it. Recently I brought home a five-pound box of mangoes, which prompted me to attempt making a sweet-and-salty entree to serve over rice. To my … Continue reading Mango Chicken Curry
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