Oven Roasted Tomatoes
Tomatoes may not be summer-ready here in the Midwest, but there’s no shortage of beautiful ones in the grocery store, perhaps coming in from California.…
Category: American
Homemade Pizza
Homemade Pizza. It’s by far my #1 favorite food. Anything with cheese. Anything with bread. When you combine the two, you have my undivided attention.…
Superbowl Foods
I’m not the biggest football fan in the world. Actually, I really don’t understand the rules of the game. I know what a touchdown and…
Easy Appetizer: Egg Salad and Baby Shrimp on Toast
If you’ve already got egg salad on hand, this is a super quick appetizer to prepare. If not, here’s my recipe for a healthy and…
Egg Salad
Once you’ve got a great recipe for egg salad, there’s so much you can do with it: serve it up in a sandwich or parcel…
Butternut Squash Soup
It’s amazing to think that a vegetable such as the butternut squash, so hard on the outside, can actually be broken into and puréed down…
Multigrain French Toast
Weekend mornings may be the default, albeit traditional time to make griddled things like pancakes and waffles, but this recipe is so quick and easy you can really make…
Chocolate Velvet Cake
This week I’ve been testing recipes for good old-fashioned (halal) southern food. It’s a fun and tasty job, but not always so easy. This cake, for example, was…
Chicken Pot Pie in Phyllo Dough
Many American kids like myself grew up eating chicken pot pies at some point during their childhood, whether homemade or store-bought and frozen. I used…
Asparagus Burgers
Sunday we took a trip out to the Chicago Botanic Gardens, just to capture the budding spring flowers on trees and, of course, the beautiful,…