How to make a crowd-pleasing charcuterie board, complete with cheese and meat selections, wine pairings, and suggestions for incorporating seasonal ingredients to make a winning wine and cheese board any time of year!
Easy Appetizers
Roasted sweet potato rounds with guacamole and bacon are the perfect healthy appetizer for guests! Amazing football food or party food!
Cinnamon and coconut sugar sweet potato fries are all you reaaaaally need for dinner. Lemme guess: you’ve been in hot pursuit of the bangarangest oven-baked sweet potato fry to ever walk the land? This is why we’re friends. The crispy-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside sweet potato fry is difficult to master. I’ve had my fair share of burnt-to-a-crisp …
Easy 3-ingredient healthy chicken wings with herbs and honey! Make these for game day! Did I ever tell you about the epic Buffalo Wing Binge of 2008? It was before this blog’s time, but there was a substantial stint in my latter days when roughly 60% of what I ate was dripping in buffalo sauce and …
Roasted Sweet Potato Rounds with Herbed Ricotta, Dried Cranberries, Walnuts, and Honey – an easy, healthy appetizer for holiday feasts.
Baked brie with fig spread and pecans is a marvelous appetizer for holiday entertaining! There’s no other way to say this… Melted cheese. Major thing. I’m of the belief that cheese is 200x better when it’s melted. Anyone else with me on the melty cheese front? And mixed with fruity fig spread? Ugh just stop …
Herb and Goat Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms are a delightfully rustic and creamy appetizer, perfect for sharing at any gathering year round!
Bacon Wrapped Roasted Pears with Goat Cheese and Honey is the perfect appetizer for your Thanksgiving feast. Roasted pears are fantastic!
Roasted Garlic Kale Hummus is a healthful and delicious snack and is perfect for all your shmearing needs. The recipe is straight out of my cookbook, Let Them Eat Kale!.
Asparagus and Avocado Spring Rolls with Citrus Dipping Sauce are like a a really good burrito. But vegetarian…and in spring roll-form. The question isn’t what would you put in a spring roll, it’s what wouldn’t you put in a spring roll? It’s spring, so let’s triple spring roll these suckers up. Asparagus. T – 10 minutes …
Fresh Spring Rolls with steamed shrimp, avocado, shredded cabbage, carrots, and a delicious homemade peanut sauce for dipping! This fun appetizer recipe is perfect for making and sharing with friends and family!
Swedish Gravlax is salmon cured in salt, sugar, and dill. It has incredible flavor and makes for a delicious, healthy, unique appetizer.
The perfect appetizer or easy dinner recipe, these Chimichurri Beef Sliders boast big flavors. A combination of onion, garlic, fresh herbs and vinegar makes chimichurri sauce taste so inviting for a finger lickin’ good experience.
Basic tips on pairing wine and cheese for the perfect bite. Turn your next gathering into a lovely wine and cheese pairing! Basic Tips For Pairing Wine and Cheese: Opposites do not attract in the case of cheese and wine pairings. Pairing similar flavors is the way to go. A smoked cheese, for instance, pairs …
How to make Hushpuppies, a classic southern inspired side dish of deep-fried dough balls. This easy recipe is loaded with flavor and fun for the whole family. It all started circa 1996 in Arkansas. My love for hushpuppies. For a number of years, my whole huge family would meet in Fayetteville, Arkansas for a family …