Basta pasta potato salad from Everyday Dorie in a white bowl on a wooden table.

Cook the Book Fridays: Basta pasta potato salad from Everyday Dorie

This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie.  Basta pasta potato salad is, contrary to what you might think, a potato-only salad (no pasta) and is named for a New York restaurant that is, according to Dorie “really Italian, slightly Asian and very happy to be indescribable, kind … Read more

Carisma microgreen potato salad on eatlivetravelwrite.com

A fresh twist on potato salad

This post is developed in partnership with Carisma Potatoes. It’s a weird old season – one day the furnace kicks in, the next day you need the air-conditioning. It’s hard to know what to wear and it’s hard to know what to prepare for dinner (since when I’m thinking about it in the morning, the … Read more

Cookbook Book Club: Scandinavian Comfort Food

Cookbook Book Club  is my once a month most months “cooking from the same cookbook” meal with Jan and  Jenn, and this month we cooked from Trine Hahnemann’s Scandinavian Comfort Food: Embracing the Art of Hygge. Hygge is more than anything the atmosphere created by hanging out. We love to hang out at each other’s houses … Read more

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Potatoes, three ways for the Holidays

T’is the season for roast dinners and what’s better than a roast dinner with potatoes?  For my latest piece for The Ontario Produce Marketing Association I was asked to develop a recipe for gorgeous heirloom potatoes for Produce Made Simple and in keeping with the “Simple” theme, I decided not to play too much with … Read more