Main Dish

Eggplant with Minced Pork and Basil

Eggplant with minced pork and basil, made with oven-roasted eggplant and a flavorful garlic sauce. As an eggplant lover, I make this dish often. It’s especially easy when I use oven-roasted eggplants, which can be prepared ahead of time and stored in the freezer. Just thaw them in the refrigerator […]

Italian Sausage Pappardelle

Enjoy this Italian Sausage Pappardelle tossed in a lemon cream sauce with sweet English peas. This easy pasta dish comes together quickly, perfect for both weeknights and weekend meals. Pappardelle has always been one of my favorite pasta shapes. Whenever I saw pappardelle with sausage on an Italian restaurant menu, […]

Trio of Savory Tartines

Savory Tartines featuring smoked salmon, creamy egg salad, and roasted peppers with blistered cherry tomatoes on crisp toasted bread. Tartines are one of my favorite things to make because they bring back memories of my student days in France, when I used to order them regularly at cafés. They are […]

Bibimbap

Bibimbap is one of those dishes that feels both nourishing and indulgent, with tender beef, fresh vegetables, a runny fried egg, and rich gochujang sauce over warm rice. Bibimbap is a classic Korean mixed rice dish. It’s a colorful bowl of warm rice topped with seasoned vegetables, marinated beef, and […]

Spinach & Lentil Soup

Spinach and Lentil Soup with Mediterranean flavors, made with tender lentils, fresh spinach, spices, and a fresh squeeze of lemon. I recently had a really tasty spinach lentil soup from Whole Foods. It had wonderful Mediterranean flavors, lemon, cinnamon, cumin and it was so delicious I wanted to recreate it […]