This Steak and Pan Roasted Tomato Salad is ridiculously easy to make! Cured golden beets and shallots highlight the steak and the blistered tomatoes add sweetness to the whole thing. It's perfect for summer, grilling, or a weeknight dinner. I made this recipe for my latest class at Fairchild Botanical Garden this week to cover Entree Salads, and how you can have a wholesome meal without fattening ingredients. The most important focus on this dish pairing the steak with ...
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Keto Avocado Raspberry Smoothie
This smoothie does one thing well- get you through a meal. Given the low carbs and high content of healthy fats, it's also perfect for keto diets. It's a riff on a smoothie Robert used to drink while working all day and when he couldn't eat much of anything else through the Chemo treatments. Background note: Robert is my future father in law, he got diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung Cancer back in April. When I first met him in February, he weighed around 190 pounds. Throughout ...
The Best Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies
It took me a long time to warm up to oatmeal raisin cookies. It's the raisins, really. At worst you're eating bland oatmeal and pockets of super high sugar spikes from the crystalized sugar in the raisins. Overall not a great experience, meh, at best. Till you try these! The title says it all The Best Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies and it's truly earned. You can expect: soft, chewy, warm oatmeal that's been spiced with a little bit of cinnamon soft melty dark chocolate ...
Black Bean Succotash
This Black Bean Succotash is a great side for a quick and easy dinner or as a main vegetarian dish that gets done in minutes! I made a version of this succotash for a Private Dinner client a few months ago. The clients, midwesterners from Indiana loved Southern Food, in an inventive and reinterpreted manner. They were folks after my own heart: pure exploratory eaters! People that have curious palettes and like to eat with an open mind. I made them this version of Black Bean Succotash. It's ...
Peach and Plum Fruit Carpaccio
When I go for a salad, I like really simple 5 minute dishes tops. Especially at the height of summer with peaches and plums all ripe and at the height of their favors. This Peach and Plum Fruit Carpaccio is ideal for lazy fast salads that don't need much to be spectacular. Sometimes, a light simple meal is the best. Enter: Peach and Plum Fruit Carpaccio! The inspiration came from traditional carpaccio, the thin raw slices of tuna, steak, etc that's served with a light vinaigrette and ...