Lemon & Cilantro Calamari with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce

Calamari is one of those things that sounds really intimidating to the home cook. Especially if they are a little seafood-scared. But that little bit of squid-squick-factor may be one of the things that makes this wild caught seafood option stay relatively affordable: where I live, a delightfully land-locked state, already cleaned calamari is often […]

Mayo-less Tuna & Grape Salad

Mayo-less tuna grape salad

I don’t know about you guys, but the new year has started over here with a ridiculous level of activity! I have a little bit of a secret project going on which is making me very happy. Aside from the part where I’m itching to tell everyone about it. Except I can’t, because then it […]

Rocket Fuel: Arugula Pecan Pesto

Arugula Pecan Pesto

You know that moment when you reach into the fridge and what you were looking for just isn’t quite as delicious looking as you were expecting it to be? That’s what happened to my arugula. I mean, it was still edible and all, but it would have made a pretty sad looking salad. Nobody wants […]

Marinated Mini Sweet Peppers

Marinated Mini Sweet Peppers

You may have noticed there has been an abundance of mini sweet peppers on this site in the last week or so. That’s because I got a humungous bag full of the things on sale. Of course, the problem with buying in bulk – especially when it comes to little things like these peppers – […]

Carrot Dip

Carrot Dip

Every now and then I have a fierce craving… for hummus. Which may not be a typical food craving. Since I don’t really have much of a sweet tooth, apparently being deprived of legumes sometimes makes me cranky! But while I was bumbling around the kitchen trying to come up with a kind of hummus […]