Berries are beautiful — and make this quick, buttery cake the best. This is a redo of one of my earlier recipes, scaled smaller optimized for berries. I think it’s perfect for an afternoon treat. Fresh Berry Butter Cake (makes one 8″ cake) 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 5 oz (3/4 cup) granulated sugar…
Golden Spice Chiffon Cake
The Golden Spice Chiffon Cake is the whole package: deep, rich spice fragrance and beautiful golden color combine with feather light texture to take your taste buds on a magic carpet ride of flavor. I’ve been experimenting with light, fluffy cakes lately, primarily different sponge cake recipes. However I gravitate to the chiffon cake*…
Tie Dye Purple Cauliflower Soup
This soup has it all! It’s flavor-packed, nutrition forward and FUN. It’s also vegan, frugal, easy to make — and you get to play artist while you season it. The star of this soup is a beautiful lavender hued cauliflower. Naturally occurring acid-sensitive anthocyanins give this vegetable its beautiful color and also make…
Lemony Asparagus Frittata
Lemon zest offers a bright accent to Spring asparagus: adding lemon thyme just makes it that much tastier. Lemon thyme and lemon zest I grow a number of herbs in my garden, and one of my favorites is lemon thyme. Lemon thyme is one of several culinary varieties of thyme, and it smells brightly of…
Broccoli Avocado Salad
I love this salad — raw broccoli, creamy avocado, and crunchy pepitas brought together with a tangy lemon and tahini dressing. This is a win-win dish: deliciousness and powerful nutrition in one tasty salad. A bonus is that it stays fresh in the fridge for a couple days, which makes it a good one to…
Soba with Egg
Delicious, frugal and 20-minutes-from-start-to-finish. Soba with Egg is pretty much a pantry meal that tastes like it took much longer to create. The secret is in the dashi packet. You start with making a fast broth, then add buckwheat soba, soy sauce and sesame oil, then add egg or tofu. Top with baby arugula and…
