Blueberries and Cucumbers with Pistachios and Yogurt
The Mozart of salads … it’s classic, uplifting, refreshing, brilliant piece of art, well you get the point. You can thank Vivian Howard from Deep Run Roots for this one
Spicy Moroccan Carrot Salad
A salad that is delightfully bold and sweet yet earthy. It’s the perfect contrast to something more mellow like a roast chicken or compliments something spicy like stuffed eggplant with lamb. You can even make it a chicken and carrot wrap for lunch on the go.
Butter Bean and Tomato Soup
It’s creamy and soul-warming with unexpected nostalgia. You can eat it with buttered crispy bread or beef it up with grilled cheese.
Imam Boyeldi
Here’s where humble ingredients band together to show you how fine they work together to create a beautiful medley that will brighten up any plate, especially those that are heavy on the creams and browns
Charred Snap Beans
It’s the perfect combination of sweet and fresh. The sweetness of the snap bean is developed when the bean hits high heat and develops a wonderful caramelization while maintaining the crisp interior of a raw one.
Yogurt, White Bean and Garlic Soup
If you ever wished to have garlic bread in the form of a soup, this is it. If you never thought you wanted it, you should now. It’s creamy, it’s garlicky, it’s good.
Smothered Sweet Potatoes
These bites of delight are the perfect balance of sweet and savory. My mom would grace our tables with them for those infamous Sunday night dinners and holidays. They’ve always been one of my favorite dishes.
Lentil Kufte
His aunt brought out a platter full of small golden patties, which I soon learned were lentil kufte. With the glorious sweet and deep notes of brown onion contrasting against the earthy lentils with a bit of fresh herbs, they soon became one of my favorite side dishes and is especially easy to feed guests because it’s eaten at room temperature.
Mushroom Ragou with Poached Duck Egg
There are few dishes I look forward to eating each year more than this one. The grounded richness of the mushrooms is like hot lava running through my veins, warming my core from the inside out even on the most bone-chilling of days.
Chilled Sun Gold Tomato Soup with Lots of Summer Stuff
This soup is simple yet special. It is as cooling as it is colorful. The garnish is as delicious makes the soup as delicious as it looks.
Chipotle Onion Soup
It’s the comfort of a long cooked soup but comes together in a fraction of the time. It’s sweet, buttery, smokey, and a little spicy.
New Mexican Frito Pie
Frito Pie is the ultimate comfort food. The crunch of the chips, the spice of the chile, gooey cheese, and freshness of raw vegetables is pretty hard to beat.
Roasted Cauliflower with Tahini Yogurt
The cauliflower has a boldness from the sugars caramelizing during the roasting process that’s combined with the complexity of browned onions and sits on a yogurt tahini sauce that is slightly tart, slightly deep, and a bit fruity that makes for a perfect side dish.
Pumpkin Breakfast Pudding
It’s as cooling as it is warm with the deep yet bright notes of cardamom which is accentuated by the complexity of buckwheat honey. The pumpkin brings a freshness and cottage cheese keeps it light with acidity while bringing a creamy texture.
Spiced Pear and Ricotta Salad
This salad has it all – the sweetness of fried pears are balanced by bitter and spicy greens and mellowed by creamy ricotta. The deep flavors are brightened by a fall spiced vinaigrette, and wrapped up in the crunch of roasted sunflower seeds.
Tomato, Cucumber, and Onion Salad
A salad can’t get much more refreshing or more summery than tomatoes, cucumbers, and onions topped with olive oil and vinegar. It’s flashy and classy. It belongs equally at a potluck picnic or on a fine dinner table.
Cucumber Chips
If you like dill pickle potato chips, you’ll love these little bites of crunchy delight. They’re tangy, a little bit spicy, and oh so crunchy!
Roasted Butternut Squash and Peanut Salad
This salad has almost everything I love in food, the deep notes of caramel in the squash, the brightness of fresh herbs, the grounding peanuts, and the fruity tanginess of pomegranate molasses.
Dandelion Fritters
The cornmeal gives the most delightful crunch while the petals give you a nice chew. If you’re hesitant to try them, please do, they’re delicious. The fritters remind me of fried fish but with the most delicate of herb flavors.