Have you ever had crispy gnocchi? It sounds weird and counter intuitive, as gnocchi is soft and dough-like, but trust me, crispy gnocchi is delicious! I first thought to lightly pan fry the gnocchi after boiling them a few years ago.
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Goat Cheese Tomato Toast
This is one of those magical “non-recipes, recipes.” Goat cheese tomato toast sounds so simple, but when you use fresh summer tomatoes and good bread, this is something you’ll end up dreaming about. I used heirloom tomatoes, which I think have a deeper, more complex flavor, but fresh on-the vine tomatoes would work great as well. The sweetness of the tomatoes, creaminess of the goat cheese, crunchy-ness of the toast, all topped with olive oil, sea salt, and pepper make the perfect combination.
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Upgraded Black Beans and Brown Rice
As much as I love to cook, I’m always on the hunt for new dinner recipes that are quick, flavorful, and delicious. Bonus points for recipes that make enough to have leftovers for lunch the next day. Enter this recipe for black beans and brown rice.
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Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies with Sea Salt
My Aunt Kathleen is my person. She’s the only person I could call and talk for 30 minutes about how my recipe will turn out if I use 64% versus 69% cocoa chocolate.
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Pasta with Grated Zucchini, Parmesan, and Garlic
I love zucchini. It’s one of those vegetables that takes on the flavor of what you add to it, making it almost like a blank canvas. Make zucchini into fritters? Sure! Zucchini Parmesan? Sure! Roasted with some garlic? Sure!
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Honey Peach Bellini
To continue with my love of peaches, here is my favorite peach cocktail, the peach bellini. Peach bellinis are delicious no matter what, but wow homemade ones are amazing! They would be ideal for summer entertaining, brunch, or lounging by the pool. But lets be real, a bellini would make any summer activity better. Even yard work…
Bellinis are an Italian sparkling wine cocktail made with sweetened peach puree and prosecco*. The peach puree is usually sweetened with sugar, but I used honey instead. I think honey is the key to the cocktail. This is because you want the bellinis to be subtle, not overwhelmingly sweet. Plus, peaches and honey were practically made for each other.
The same idea goes for the sparkling wine or prosecco you use in this cocktail. You want something not overly sweet, so Brut usually works well. Don’t feel like you need to spend a fortune on the sparkling wine, I use Trader Joes brand or a $12 bottle from my local wine store.
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Arugula Peach Salad
It’s finally peach season!! Admittedly, peach season is one of my favorite things about summer. I may be going a little peach crazy over here, eating them for snacks, putting them in salads, baking with them, adding them to cocktails…
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Roasted Eggplant with Sauteed Tomatoes and Goat Cheese
I love eggplant. I used to be intimidated to cook it, not knowing what to do with it or how to cook it. But then I figured out how to properly salt it to draw out the bitterness, and roast it. Life changing moment. I’m not going to lie, it took me years of fiddling to get there.
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Kathleen’s Candied Pecans
My Aunt Kathleen makes the most delicious candied pecans. The only problem is that she lives in California and I live in Ohio. This meant I had to take matters into my own hands and learn how Kathleen made the pecans.
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Salted, Browned Butter, Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Salt, browned butter, chocolate, all in one cookie. Need I say more? I’m a sucker for browned butter and all it’s nutty richness. And chocolate, who doesn’t love chocolate? I’m also a firm believer that every dessert needs some salt.
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