pearl couscous salad recipe

Pearl Couscous Salad

Pearl couscous – easy to make, versatile, and just a little bit exotic. If you’re going to have one last summer picnic, this should be in your basket.

wild garlic pesto recipe

Wild Garlic Pesto

Pesto is such a versatile and easy sauce to whip up, and is a great way to use seasonal ingredients to get the most flavor you can from them. I made this from wild garlic leaves, which is an ingredient with a short season. This is an easy way to preserve it.

vegetable lasagne recipe

Summer Vegetable Lasagne

Lasagne may not seem like the best way to show off summer produce, but going light on the cheese means you can taste everything and not feel like a dead weight once it’s all gone.

sweet potatoes and black beans burrito recipe

Sweet Potato and Black Bean Burritos

Right now, I’m what you might call “between vacations”. Two weekends ago, the gentleman and I were in Barcelona, where we enjoyed our share of tapas, gin and wine. (There are some truly great gin bars there.) This past weekend, I trekked over to Wales to visit a friend there, and ate even more. Of…

corn chowder recipe

Healthified Corn Chowder

This was the second-to-last meal of an unofficial challenge that I embarked on for two weeks in a rather long term between paychecks. It’s been two years and I still have trouble getting used to monthly (or sometimes once every 5 weeks) money. The challenge I set myself was to go without shopping at the…