Romaine and Apple Salad with Walnuts

Romaine and Apple Salad with Walnuts

My salads are a general framework rather exact recipes with precise ingredients and measurements. My favorite combination for this salad is romaine and a crisp apple – Pink Lady, Honey Crisp and Granny Smith are my preferred choices. But I often make it with other...
4 Favorite  Fish Friday Recipes

4 Favorite Fish Friday Recipes

I celebrate “Fish Friday” in our home during Lent for health of both spirit and body. Why Fish Friday? Catholics abstain from eating meat on Ash Wednesday and on Fridays during Lent, the forty-day season in preparation for Easter. It’s an abstention meant...
One-Pan Pesto Crusted Fish with Asparagus and New Potatoes

One-Pan Pesto Crusted Fish with Asparagus and New Potatoes

Pretty colors, wonderful flavor and texture, AND nutrient-rich. This recipe also reduces the number of prepping bowls, pots and pans in preparing dinner, truly a one-dish meal. Well, I serve it with a salad so I guess it is a two dish meal. It can be a simple romaine...
Winter Comfort Foods

Winter Comfort Foods

We headed north to a family cabin in the woods near Bethel, Maine for school’s Winter Break. We usually visit Maine in October when fall is bursting into an extraordinary song of color, a spectacular symphony in red, gold, orange, rust, yellow hues. Fall nights are...
January Dinner Party for 50

January Dinner Party for 50

This menu was crafted for 50 people, an event for my daughter’s school. My goal for a dinner party menu, is to have food for both omnivores and vegans. And, as always in my cooking, I love the challenge of putting as many plant foods into one meal knowing it...