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Spring Vegetable Salad with Dijon-Honey-Paprika Dressing and Coconut Bacon

June 24, 2017 by Sheila

Spring Vegetable Salad

Sonia and I are on a journey to find a suitable replacement for bacon in our baconless life. The desire becomes heightened as warm weather settles in for the summer, because the heirloom tomatoes in the garden, with barely a bloom to be had yet, beckon for BLT’s when nothing else will do. Found a […]

Filed Under: Greens, Salads Tagged With: asparagus, broccoli, butterhead lettuce, coconut bacon, honey-Dijon dressing, manchego cheese, red amaranth, sugar snap peas, watercress microgreens

Roasted Radicchio, Mushroom, Potato, and Manchego Cheese Gratin

December 28, 2014 by Sheila

Roasred Radicchio, Mushroom, Potato, and Manchego Cheese Gratin

Lewis, my harshest critic, loved this casserole!!! Can we even call the above a casserole? Resisting any food snobbery, we’ll leave it as named, a meal in a baking dish. Until the taste reveal. The German Butterball potatoes really made this dish. These potatoes were freshly dug at Rosie and Dan’s Swallow Hill Farm. Yukon […]

Filed Under: Casseroles and Gratins Tagged With: bechamel, gratin, manchego cheese, Mornay sauce, mushrooms, potato, radicchio, roasted, shallot

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