Tag: Summer

Thai Chicken Satay with Peanut Chili Sauce

Thai Chicken Satay with Peanut Chili Sauce

How Popular is Chicken Satay? Hold onto your hat because it is way more popular than I had expected. It was listed at 14th on the World’s 50 Best Foods List compiled by CNN through a Facebook poll of over 35,000 votes in September of…

Five Spice Grilled Chicken Wings

Five Spice Grilled Chicken Wings

No Need to Be an Expert at the Grill These Five Spice Grilled Chicken Wings are really easy to make, and will become your new favorite. If you’ve never had Chinese Five Spice Seasoning, you are missing out. I had no idea, but now I’m…

Rustic Peach Galette with Buttery Crust

Rustic Peach Galette with Buttery Crust

Tired of fussing with pretty and perfect pies? Make a rustic peach galette instead Think of a galette as a free form pie. Put it in a pie pan with this rustic crust and it’s a pielette. Call it what you want, but this rustic…

Homemade Blueberry Ice Cream

Homemade Blueberry Ice Cream

No Cooking or Eggs Required for this Easy Blueberry Ice Cream This blueberry ice cream recipe is so easy and most of the time is spent by either churning or freezing. I love that it doesn’t require any cooking or eggs. I use the KitchenAid…

Rustic Chanterelle & Gruyere Tart

Rustic Chanterelle & Gruyere Tart

  This Delicious Tart Has is All This beautiful chanterelle tart will wow your guests with its rustic, yet elegant charm and its earthy flavors. I love the ruffled edges of the phyllo dough, which are so easy to make. Chanterelles are slightly fruity, with…

Blueberry & Cream Cheese Croissant Puff

Blueberry & Cream Cheese Croissant Puff

Blueberry, Mixed Berry or Any Berry Cream Cheese Croissant Puff This berry bread pudding caserole Is super easy. It can be made with any kind of berry, mixed berries, fresh berries, frozen berries or a combination of any of those. This blueberry croissant puff was…

Chicken Panzanella Salad

Chicken Panzanella Salad

Basically a Caprese Salad with Croutons If you like caprese salad and a nice warm Homemade Croutons that are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, then this Panzanella Salad is right up your ally. Pepé and I make panzanella quite a lot.…

Tomato, Cucumber & Dill Salad

Tomato, Cucumber & Dill Salad

This tomato, cucumber & dill salad is quick, light, healthy and delicious. Making it the day before gives you more time with your friends and family. Quick, Simple, Light, Healthy & Delicious This salad checks all the boxes. You can make this Tomato Cucumber Salad…

Monarch Sugar Cookies

Monarch Sugar Cookies

Monarch Migration    Pepé and I made these Monarch Sugar Cookies in honor of the monarch butterflies that we watched metamorphose from caterpillar, to chrysalis, to fully fledged butterfly. You can read the full story by following this link, which includes a time lapse video…

BLT Salad with Homemade Croûtons

BLT Salad with Homemade Croûtons

You know whats better than a BLT Sandwich?   A BLT Salad with these homemade croûtons. So, Pepé is wondering why I’m cutting the bread into small cubes. He said, “Are you planning on making a bunch of teeny tiny BLT sandwiches?” I said, “No,…

Chanterelle Duxelles

Chanterelle Duxelles

How to pronounce duxelles Now I’ve been making duxelles for years, but evidently I’ve been saying it wrong all this time. Pepé has just informed me that he will be walking out of the kitchen if I don’t start saying it correctly. I guess it…

Chanterelle & Saffron Risotto with Seared Scallops

Chanterelle & Saffron Risotto with Seared Scallops

Chanterelles are a fabulous foraged food     We have foraged many fabulous foods from our forest for sure, but the chanterelles are probably our favorite. We didn’t even know what chanterelles were before we bought our house many years ago, but thank the heavens…

Easy Homemade Hamburger Buns

Easy Homemade Hamburger Buns

Making homemade hamburger buns is fun, easy and way better than pulling weeds… Just ask Pepé Summer weekends often seem to involve a lot of grilling or gardening and this one was going to be both. We planned on grilling some burgers on Sunday, but…

Best Homemade Grilled Burgers

Best Homemade Grilled Burgers

My hubby makes the best grilled burgers   It was a lazy summer day without any plans other than to relax by the pool, so I made these Easy Homemade Hamburger Buns and my hubby grilled his incredible perfect burgers. He’s been making them for years,…

Easy Chimichurri Sauce

Easy Chimichurri Sauce

Is it a sauce or a marinade? Well, it’s both. Or as my hubby would answer… “Yes”. If I ever ask two questions in a row… a “is it this or that”, “do you want to go here or there“ question, you can count on…

Grilled Sweet Potatoes & Asparagus

Grilled Sweet Potatoes & Asparagus

Grillin’ & Chillin’ We just grillin’ & Chillin’, but Pepé is confused as always. He wants to know why I’m putting my sweet potatoes in the microwave when I said we were grilling. Fair question I guess. I like to put my veggies on the…