Calamari Kale & Kalamata Olive Salad

Calamari, kale and Kalamata. Clearly, I’m a sucker for alliteration in recipe titles. For years, I didn’t actually realize that “calamari” on the menu referred to the squid beneath the batter in the ubiquitous fried calamari dishes I loved so much. I thought “calamari” was the name of the dish itself. Which, in a way, isn’t so […]

Stir Fried Pork with Cabbage Noodles

Stir Fried Pork with Cabbage Noodles

This has been a week of contrasts, that’s for sure! First our house was almost completely without running water and then the hosting provider for this site decided to have a few issues. By a few, I mean that they stopped displaying the site at all, which some of you may have seen. But I […]

Avocado & Artichoke Heart Dip

Artichoke & Avocado Dip #paleo #vegan #vegetarian #dip

I swear 99% of my recipes or food ideas are borne out of complete necessity. Due to the snow it is apparently impossible for our water delivery to be made as usual, which means that soon we won’t have any. At all. No water for any purpose whatsoever. I’m not even going to tell you […]

Cilantro & Green Onion Pork Burgers

Cilantro & Green Onion Pork Burgers

I’m still in the throes of emptying out my winter chest freezer. I found a larger-than-expected cache of pork we ground ourselves and figured it needed using up – this is what I came up with. Really simple and delicious flavors but these patties only take ten minutes or so to put together. Yay! First […]

Citrus and Sage Roasted Baby Carrots

Sometimes I make a scaled down version of these if I’m craving a sweet snack without resorting to fruit. Or if I’ve already eaten all the fruit in the house. It happens. The first time I made these roasted baby carrots, however, was as a side because I’d just gleefully returned home from grocery shopping […]