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Middle Eastern-Spiced Rice with Peas and Pistachios will transport you to Morocco…or Egypt or Israel. You get the idea! Lots of flavor in this side dish that pairs extremely well with all kinds of meat dishes. Let Middle Eastern-Spiced Rice with Peas and Pistachios enchant your taste buds with another region of the world.
Radishes, butter, and coarse salt. It’s an iconic and sophisticated french combination of flavors that is very addictive. In this recipe, the butter is melted with olive oil (to reduce the richness a bit) and enhanced with umami-rich anchovies, which takes simple to stupendous! Radishes with Anchovy Butter is a simple recipe that bursts with flavor.
Roasted Fennel with Parmesan will completely surprise you. It bursts with flavor and the roasting brings out a subtle and delicious spiciness in the fennel that I never knew was there. Who knew salt, pepper, olive oil and parmesan could elevate roasted fennel to such a degree?
Herb-Baked Acorn Squash with Parmesan is a terrific savory recipe perfect for a family dinner or holiday meal. The squash slices get crispy on the edges while maintaining a wonderful creaminess on the inside. Plus, the natural shape of the squash slices makes it super-easy to create a gorgeous blooming flower…no prior flower arranging experience necessary! Impress your family and friends with this simple, tasty and beautiful acorn squash recipe.
Spicy Honey-Glazed Brussels Sprouts is the result of a cooking mistake. I accidentally poured nearly 1/4 cup of ground black pepper into the brussels sprouts! (I was recovering from wrist surgery so I couldn’t use a pepper grinder.) I frantically removed as much of the pepper as possible but, as you can imagine, there was still more pepper than I would normally add…way more! To offset the spiciness, I added honey to the brussels sprouts and as a result this recipe was born. Sometimes mistakes are the best way to develop new recipes! Now I have a sweet, crispy, spicy brussels sprouts recipe that’s one of my favorites.
An update to a classic … Roasted Cherry Tomatoes with Fresh Mozzarella is a modern twist on the original. Roasting the cherry tomatoes provides a more concentrated tomato flavor and the tomato juices from the roasting make an excellent sauce with no extra effort. Don’t get me wrong, I love the original version but I may love this one even more.
There’s a lot of flexibility with this recipe. You can use just zucchini or squash or a combo like I did. I used blue cheese in this rendition but feta or goat would be delicious too. The nutty crunch from the pine nuts is terrific but feel free to experiment with chopped hazelnuts or macadamias. But whatever you do, splurge on the truffle honey drizzle. It knocks this dish right out of the park. Trust me!