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Peach Tart
A delicious and light summer dessert or can also be served as a sweet canapé.
Sweet & Spicy Grilled Fruit
Get your creative juices flowing with grilled fruit! In just minutes you can achieve sweet caramelization that’s a no-brainer for dessert, but don’t miss bringing them to the table as an appetizer or side dish, or saving them for breakfast the next day. It’s easy to mix and match flavors and fruits to add color and jazz to any meal.
Roasted Tomato-Garlic Toasts
This "recipe"--more a guideline--came about as a way to get dinner on the table without fuss, and is an example of my exploration of roasting any and every kind of vegetable. The sweet flavor of best-quality late-summer tomatoes is concentrated and enriched by putting in a fairly hot oven and keeping it there till nicely browned. You can vary the quantities as you like. Not much more to be said--it's yummy, addictive and very popular around here.
Flans with Muscovado Sauce
These are almost too easy! Forget about caramelizing sugar for the molds. Just press some flavorful raw sugar into the bottom of each dish, and pour the flan mixture on top. The sugar dissolves into a sauce when the flans are chilled. Adapted from Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts by Alice Medrich (Artisan, 2012)
Groovy Chocolate Cherry Coconut Bars
A couple of times a week, I manage to eat every last granola bar/energy bar in my office after my workout. My favorites are the Cherry Pie LARABARs and these groovy chocolate-coconut energy snacks my labmate gets at her local co-op (FYI, we share the stash and replenish as we gobble. I'm not the jerk who secretly eats everyone's lunches). Here, I have combined the two into a yummy homemade snack to share! They are a nice snack before or after a workout and keep well in the freezer and refrigerator. They are also a nice way to ease yourself off of all the sweets you've consumed over the holidays, while also getting a little fiber back into your system :)
Honey Balsamic Sauce
Save your pricey fine balsamic vinegar for another day. Here is a grand and recession-proof honey balsamic sauce recipe for strawberries and ice cream.
Raw Peach Crumbles
A non-fussy way to enjoy some ripe, juicy peaches without turning on your oven
Smashed Kale Salad
Guacamole re-incarnated as a salad. Creamy avocado hand-"smashed" into hearty kale leaves, topped with onion, cilantro and fresh-squeezed lime. Even the kale averse will crave this one.
Cold Drip Coffee Chip Ice Cream
Adapted from David Leibovitz's Perfect Scoop, this ice cream mixes a potent combo of cold drip coffee (not from your Mr. Coffee) and sweetened condensed milk into a frozen treat that answers the question, why just sip the drip?
Brad Spence's Salted Butter Semifreddo
This is an anytime, any season pantry frozen treat -- no ice cream machine required. Spence serves it year-round at Amis in Philadelphia, on blueberry tarts and in hot fudge sundaes, over spiced pound cake and yeasted waffles, and blended into maple milkshakes. Adapted from Amis Restaurant in Philadelphia, PA. Note: The eggs in this recipe aren't cooked. Just buy them from a trustworthy source -- Spence's come from Green Meadow Farm in Gap, PA -- or you can use pasteurized eggs.
Smokey Grilled Minty Snap Peas
Summer sides calls for easy recipes, and this is one of my current favorites. It's just 4 ingredients, if you include the oil and the salt, but all four are important. They're best served warm from the grill, especially if you use the wood chips, but are great at room temperature, or even the next day. Note: I've also made these without the wood chips, and they're still fantastic. Just maybe a little less so :-)
HOME MADE POTOTES SALADE
this is from my mom, old fashion, depending how much you want to make and how much company you't having, boil pototes,eggs, cut up onion celery, make sure the eggs and pototes are cold before you mix all ingerents, other wise you have mashed salade.
Biscotti di Vino (Wine Biscotti)
This traditional family-style recipe is common in many regions of Italy with variations per area. This simple biscuit-like biscotti is perfect with wine.
Boozy Sorbet
This sorbet recipe is definitely purposefully extra boozy, unlike other recipes. The watermelon is wonderful in this vodka drink.
Roasted Mushroom Salad
I used a wild mushroom assortment to make this recipe. This salad worked very well along side the halibut fish and a light green salad for a full dinner.
Tomato Graté
Growing up, my grandparents had a vegetable garden, and around this time of year, crates of tomatoes would start lining up along the back of their house. Some were canned for winter but most ended up on the table roasted and crusted with breadcrumbs, garlic and parsley. These tomatos are ubiquitous on the Romganolo table, and quite possibly the best food in the world.
Jennie Cook's Zucchini Butter
It turns out zucchini wants to be butter. Grated fine, it cooks down quickly, pooling into a soft, freckly green pile. Try this pure distillation recipe now!
Brown Butter Mayonnaise
Timing is everything. I ran across the idea for brown butter mayonnaise on the blog “Ideas in Food” just as good tomatoes are coming into season. The recipe below is my standard homemade mayonnaise adapted to include brown butter in place of oil. There are many ways you can use it, but notably, it takes a BLT from good to divine.
Steakhouse Barley
I love getting sauteed mushrooms and creamed spinach with my steaks when I go out, and I recently found myself craving both while grilling up some steak-burger patties. Two sides, however, seem a little excessive for a weeknight dinner, so I combined them with barley for a quick dish. This makes a great cold lunch the day after, too.
Corn, Avocado, and Mango Salad
This salad is more of an idea than a recipe. I hate measuring, which is why I generally don't post recipes on the site. But I was so pleased with this simple yet delightful combination of flavors that I figured I'd share--if only to inspire others to create their own fresh take on this summer side. I served the corn salad with halibut, but I'm sure it would taste great with trout and almost any other white fish or protein, or taco, for that matter. All measurements are approximated as is the serving size. I wouldn't worry, though. This salad would be very hard to mess up if you use the guidelines I've provided below. Enjoy.
Kombucha Berry Ice pops
Bring a burst of winter to a hot summer day, with this nutritious and delicious homemade ice pop. Kombucha provides healing probiotics and beneficial acids. The berries are packed with antioxidants. Added bonus? They’re easy to make and taste sooooo good.
Rhubarb Lemonade
I made this lemonade after wanting a simple way to taste fresh rhubarb without cooking/baking/mixing it with much of anything at all. I choose dark stalks for dramatic color.
Watermelon Granita with Blueberries
Nothing says summer like watermelon, and this frozen version is surprisingly simple to make. It is a delightful finish to any meal.
Sour Cherry Granita
I love fresh fruit desserts! Granitas are excellent because they keep the bursting, fresh flavor of fruit waiting patiently in the freezer until you are ready to enjoy it... plus, they're super easy! Notes in parentheses are specific ingredients I used; use whatever you have. This granita is a brilliant, permeating red and was inspired by a recipe in Saveur.