Mustard-y Mustard Greens

Quick side dish.

Sweet Potato Gnocchi w/ fried sage and gorgonzola cream sauce

This was quite a project, but it ended up being a delicious combination. I relied chiefly on these two recipes for inspiration.

Carrot Fingers

I wanted to make something creepy looking for Halloween. This is what I came up with (got the idea off a Web site).

Pumpkin Hummus

This really adds something nice to the flavor of hummus, and is a good use for roasted pumpkin flesh.

Roasted Pumpkin Flesh

I roasted some of the pumpkin we cut up for Halloween, and the byproduct made it into two dishes: hummus and chili. Here’s the easy building block that gets you started.

Recipe Variation: Pumpkin Banana Bread

One of my pumpkin-themed dishes of the night. I would have gone with regular pumpkin bread, but considering we had rotting bananas around, figured I might as well use both.
I followed the recipe I used for blueberry banana bread with a few changes. One, no blueberries. Also, I used just two bananas, and added a [...]

Wax beans with basil and pistachio

The nuts and basil here kind of gave a pesto quality to these beans.

Flatbreads with goat cheese, almond sauce, arugula and caramelized shallots

I was attempting to recreate an appetizer I had at PS7’s, which boasts one of my favorite DC happy hours. They have a flatbread they call “nutty goat”. Two problems with my version: 1) The flatbread base I used was kind of crappy B) Found out afterwards they used drunken goat, which is a very [...]

Brussels Sprouts with Cipollini Onions

Another recipe from the We Love DC story. I did not, however, use the 1 stick of butter recommended – I couldn’t do it.

Spicy Broccoli Rabe

So easy, so yum. The blanching really helps with the bitterness that broccoli rabe sometimes has, and meant that it didn’t end up undercooked after a quick sautee.