Spiced ground turkey lettuce wraps - a quick and healthy weeknight meal, and one of our top favorites, these wraps are loaded with veggies, and warm spices, and topped with crunchy peanuts, fresh cilantro and creamy avocado. I've been meaning to post the recipe for these spiced ground turkey lettuce wraps for awhile, as this is one of our ...
Salmorejo {cold tomato soup + smoked sardines}
Salmorejo - this Spanish creamy tomato and bread soup, is a summer favorite, served chilled, and topped with smoked sardines, and chopped red onion. I can eat my weight in tomatoes, and I never get tired of them. While on vacation back in my home country, we had a blissful 10-day stay at a beach villa with a garden full of tomatoes - at ...
Oven-fried zucchini crisps with garlic yogurt dip
Oven-fried zucchini crisps with garlic yogurt dip - this is a fantastic summer finger food, quick and easy to make, and so delicious you need to triple the recipe! One of my all time favorite summer dishes is fried zucchini. It's a traditional Bulgarian meal, that we often had in the summer, and we devoured insane amounts, until we fell into ...
Garlic tuna tomato salad {mustard vinaigrette + capers}
Garlic tuna tomato salad - loaded with aromatic basil and garlic, tangy capers and sharp mustard flavors, this is a super delicious summer salad that works great for a light dinner. Coming back to real life from a month-long vacation is not easy... Although I can't wait to share some of the most delicious recipes I've tried, and the ...
Watermelon jicama mint salad
Watermelon jicama mint salad - this summer favorite will surprise you with its wide range of mouthwatering contrasting flavors and textures - creamy, and crunchy, sweet and tart, but most of all - delicious and refreshing! I'm rarely absorbed by a cookbook like I was with Hartwood. From the first time I lay my eyes on it at Barns & ...
Cold cucumber yogurt soup {garlic + walnuts + dill}
Cold cucumber yogurt soup - garlic, walnuts, dill, fresh cucumbers and chilled yogurt make this soup super delicious and quite refreshing on a hot day. As the hot summer days are sluggishly dragging by, making a lazy bum out of all of us, I'm beginning to avoid the kitchen stove, or oven as much as possible, and making hack meals as often as ...
Eggs in garlicky yogurt {butter paprika sauce + feta cheese}
Eggs in garlicky yogurt - crispy fried egg whites and soft yolks, drizzled with butter paprika sauce, and served over a bed of cold, creamy garlicky yogurt - this is the ultimate egg dish to dig in with a piece of toasted bread! Let me just start by saying that these eggs in garlicky yogurt, drizzled with butter paprika sauce, and grated ...
Eggplant dip
Eggplant dip - with only 4 ingredients, this dip is an easy and impressive summer appetizer, and dare I say, better than Baba Ganoush! Dare I say this eggplant dip is better than Baba Ganoush? Oh, yeah - and I fully assume the responsibility for doing so! This is one of my childhood favorites and I had to share it, as over the years I ...
Steak bites {blue cheese butter + smoked peppita crumb}
Steak bites with blue cheese butter and smoked pepita crumb - seared to perfection, bursting with flavor, tender steak bites are smeared with melting bluecheese butter, and a crunchy topping of smoked pepitas. Here's a fantastic appetizer you can make on a Friday night, or next time you have special guests over. Because these steak bites ...
Pistachio honey rose butter
Pistachio honey rose butter - easy, homemade pistachio butter treat with a sweet floral touch from the rose water and honey. On a recent visit to the farmer's market, we were seduced by a local vendor who was selling all kinds of spiced peanut, and cashew nut butters. As we were trying out different flavors, my kids (out of nowhere it ...
Coffee Coconut Quinoa Brulee
Freshly brewed espresso, and coconut milk provide the flavoring for this quinoa breakfast, and a quick brulee on top completes the perfection! This one's for you - hard-core coffee lovers, exhausted, sleep-deprived, always on the run, multi-tasking champion moms out there - treat yourself (or your mom) to this coffee coconut quinoa brulee ...
Croissant French toast with lemon mascarpone cheese {two ways}
Croissant French toast with lemon Mascarpone cheese - treat yourself to this scrumptious breakfast on a lazy weekend morning, and be sure to try both the savory and sweet version. This is what happens when you have stale croissants, and whipping cream that's about to go bad. ...
Stuffed mushrooms in creamy pesto sauce
Stuffed mushrooms in creamy pesto sauce - salty prosciutto, cheesy goodness and a whole lot of flavor from the pesto cream sauce. My favorite way of eating food is tapas style. When we dine out, I would much rather order a few appetizers than one meal. I love to nibble at, and sample different foods, and tapas tend to condense unusual ...
Roasted Jerusalem artichokes {feta + garlic dill butter}
Roasted Jerusalem artichokes - sprinkled with feta cheese and drizzled with garlic dill butter, they are simply finger-licking good! This recipe is a riff off my favorite way to eat French fries - sprinkled with feta cheese. That's how I've eaten French fries all my life, and to this day, I haven't found a better way. The only other thing ...
Kale salad with toasted coconut and sesame oil
Kale salad with toasted coconut and sesame oil - this fantastic salad has it all - it's crunchy, it's salty, it's satisfying, and feels like comfort food, yet is a health bomb. I've been really slow in catching up with the world's obsession with kale. I remember the first kale salad recipe I tried, instructed to massage the kale with your ...