Seasonal recipes for today's kitchen
Crunchy sweet corn meets just-tender zucchini in this salad that celebrates summer. The vinaigrette that binds it has touches of mellow onion and bright notes of mint. It’s pretty simple to put together, can be assembled ahead of time, and will wow whoever is gathered–Read more
Colorado summers are made sweeter with Palisade peaches that are grown and harvested in the western part of our state. Farmers markets, grocery stores, and even street corner vendors have piles of these fruit jewels for sale. We’ve baked fruit crisps and made ice cream–Read more
Sometimes giving a vegetable very simple treatment is the way to let it shine. This asparagus recipe, adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi’s “vibrant vegetable” cookbook Plenty, has few ingredients, basic preparation steps, yet wows with its flavor. Although the ingredient list is short, making sure those–Read more
The day that my bag of shelled pistachios met a pile of bittersweet chocolate was a very good one. I was looking for a dessert to cap off a spring dinner out on the deck, and this pistachio and chocolate tart answered my call. As–Read more
Imagine a Valentine’s dessert that’s warm, spicy and the color of an old-fashioned Cupid’s heart. That’s where my brain went to when I saw Ina Garten’s recipe for an oven-roasted applesauce flavored with fresh raspberries in her latest book, Cooking for Jeffrey. Ina is famous–Read more
This pear tart is a magic trick. You take fresh pears, 5 other ingredients, about 10 minutes of prep time, bake it for half an hour and poof! A beautiful dessert is on your table, waiting for a round of applause. I have often made this pear–Read more