Beet and Burrata Salad with Grapefruit Vinaigrette
It’s fabulously fresh with a citrusy vinaigrette. It’s sassy with crunchy broiled grapefruit that brings tartness but sweet with yellow beets to cut the sour. Burrata brings a creaminess to the salad, yet remains light, and pistachios compliment all of the components.
Pomegranate and Cranberry Salad with Spiced Orange Vinaigrette
It’s light and feisty with spicy greens, mandarins, pomegranate, cranberries, and pecans. The salad is perfect to pair with a rich holiday meal or to use leftover Thanksgiving ingredients to create a filling salad. The beauty of this salad is almost anything goes and the point is to have a delicious dish while cleaning out your fridge.
Charred Carrots with Apple Brown-Butter Vinaigrette
Charring carrots brings on a marvelous complex of sweet and deep that is brightened yet grounded with apples, lemon, and browned butter.
Turnips as Cardoons
They’re buttery, decadent, and a little bit sweet. It’s everything a turnip should be: comforting, complex, a bit unexpected with just a hint of bitterness.
Cabbage with Onions Two Ways
Cabbage and onions are simply buttery bliss or you can take them one step further and turn them into fritters. Either way you’ll wish you knew this recipe a long time ago.
Halloween Salad: Cabbage, Carrot, Raisin, Pecan Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
The perfect Halloween festive salad that is as tasty as it is colorful. It’s bold, sweet, salty, and has texture for days. The dressing brings the perfect amount of zing that balances the sweeter components.
Grande Pates
Grande pates is dough that is pulled, fried, and served with smoked sausage and a good helping of Steen’s cane syrup. It’s a perfect harmony of sweet, savory, and smoky.
Peanut Soup
I began the meal with peanut soup and that first bite warmed and relaxed my most inner soul. It was creamy with a faint, but lingering peanut flavor.
Cucumber and Peanut Salad with Tahini Dressing
Cooling cucumbers give you all the freshness you want on a hot day and peanuts and tahini bring you an earthiness to keep you satisfied.
Smothered Pork Chops with Caramelized Onions
The pork chops are tender with the deepest rich notes of caramelized onions that create the base for one of the best gravies you’ll ever eat.
Peach and Almond Salad with Creamy Lemon Basil Dressing
The dressing is so smooth and bright with the luxurious feel of a creamy dressing but the freshness and palate cleansing components of a vinaigrette.
Roasted Potatoes with Harissa
These little guys are a mouthful full of bold flavor. They’re spicy and crispy and creamy and perfect as a hot appetizer.
Strawberry, Ricotta, and Sunflower Seed Salad with Lemon Tarragon Vinaigrette
It’s sweet, fresh, and grounded. It brings us the best of warm spring days.
Beef and Beet Stew
It’s deep and decadent like the best of beef stews but also has a subtle sweetness and lightness, thanks to the beets. The combination creates the perfect bridge food between wanting the depth and comfort of winter food, but the air is a bit too warm.
Stuffed Poblanos with Red Chile, Chorizo, and Black Beans
It’s a punch in the mouth full of chile flavor that will leave you satisfied for a long time and will have you looking forward to leftovers. The poblanos reheat in the oven so nicely you won’t even know they were leftovers.
Creole-Spiced Poached Fish
With warming spices of allspice, coriander, and cloves, it creates a comforting dish full of flavor that is perfect for an early spring cold snap. The flavors are reminiscent of grits and grillades.
Ginger Spaghetti Squash with Orange Zest and Browned Butter
This spaghetti squash is bright, light, and bold with ginger, orange zest, and browned butter. It plays well with a simply seasoned broiled fish.
Arugula, Beet, and Orange Salad with Orange Blossom Vinaigrette
It’s sweet, tart, spicy, and flowery. It’s spring’s dainty nudging that says, “I’m not too far away”.
Smothered Cabbage
Smothered cabbage more than makes up for its looks with its bold flavor. It warms the soul with its smoky, sweet, and buttery notes.
Smothered Potatoes with Smoked Sausage
The simplest of foods can bring the most abundant amount of flavor. It’s a bit smokey, a bit spicey, and a whole bit comforting.