This Mediterranean-inspired steak marinade includes smoked paprika, tangy lemon and sumac, and a hint of nutty sweetness from amaretto. Perfect for a summer evening with some flatbread and spreads for an assemble-your-own meal.
Tag: Meats
A sweet and spicy marinade for chicken with honey and balsamic, perfect for grilling or baking.
One of the disadvantages to writing a food blog from a growing region California is that my food seasons are different than so many other people’s. While I want to write things that people can make now, what I can make is different. While I’m seeing other bloggers post everything fall (so much pumpkin spice and winter squash!) we are still seeing squash blossoms at the farmer’s market and delicata squash hasn’t even shown up at the local farm stands yet. I haven’t worked much with squash blossoms previously as I though them too fussy and most of the recipes…Continue Reading
Continuing on the trend of contest entries, I participated in the cooking competition hosted by Il Fiorello as part of this last weekend’s Fairfield Tomato Festival. Obviously, the parameters involved tomatoes. I did several entries as there were multiple categories and I wanted to push myself. For the soup I did a sweet corn and tomato gazpacho, as a salad I did a fried eggplant, tomato, and onion, and for the sauce category I did this tomato coconut chicken – which won the sauce category (even though I think it kind of stretches the definition of sauce). I will post…Continue Reading
And so we continue with the recipes from my excess of zucchini. Also considering the ridiculous temperatures in Northern California in the last few weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of salads. This zucchini and steak salad is one of my successful attempts to balance my desire for cold refreshing salads with H’s current need for a lot of protein (he is currently training for an iron man). That has meant that a lot of our meals are light salads with lots of raw fruits and vegetables topped with meat of some kind. Not particularly ingenious, but it works. This…Continue Reading