Appetizers

Goat Cheese and Wild Ramp Bruschetta

Goat Cheese and Wild Ramp (or Green Onion) Bruschetta

Wild ramps (also know as wild leeks) are getting a lot of press lately.  That’s because every spring locavores hit the woods in search of the telltale broad flat leaves…

Caramelized Onion, Pear and Goat Cheese Pizza

Caramelized Onion, Pear and Goat Cheese Pizza

I wouldn’t ask this question except to a group of foodies, but have you ever developed a strange fixation with a specific food? Well I have, and my strange food…

Sugared Nuts in a Dish

Super Simple Sugared Nuts

They say that necessity is the mother of invention–and perhaps it’s the mother of reinvention as well.  But when I needed glazed nuts for an upcoming salad recipe, I almost…

Hot Vegetable DIp - Art of Natural Living

Kitchen Cupboard Spring Cleaning Challenge (and Vegetable Dip Recipe)

It’s spring.  At last!  Hooray! And what do we associate with spring?  Spring Cleaning! Now in the interest of full disclosure I have never spring-cleaned in my life, unless you…