An easy and modern holiday party menu featuring roasted grape and honey chèvre toasts with fresh rosemary, black olive tapenade, and a vibrant beet tzatziki with winter vegetable crudités. This post is sponsored by Mirassou Winery. Thanks for supporting our sponsors! Jump to recipes. [Read more…]
concord grape jelly sandwich donuts
A recipe for decadent brioche sandwich donuts filled with homemade concord jelly. Jump to recipe. [Read more…]
Concord Lime Vodka Collins
A recipe for bold and flavorful concord grape syrup and a lovely concord lime vodka collins to make with it.
toasted couscous salad with zucchini & grapes
My productivity experienced a precipitous decline coincident with both the end of the school year and the advent of days topping the ninety degree mark. Correlation isn’t causation, but I think it’s safe to jump to a few conclusions here.
A bright spot, though, has been the family dinner, which needs much less in the way of labor during the summer. [Read more…]
quick-pickled grapes
Christmas calls to mind lots of food – gingerbread and peppermint, roast goose and baked ham, but most people probably don’t have visions of pickles dancing through their heads on Christmas Eve. Except in our house. I’m not sure how or why pickles and the holidays go together here, but they do. I’ve been thinking about our holiday traditions for an upcoming project and noticed a serious trend – quick pickles. I seem to bust these out any time more than four people gather in my kitchen (for examples, see here, here, here, and here – see what I mean?), and thought it was about time to share one of my favorite quick pickle recipes with you.
Quick-pickled grapes are sweet, and spicy, and just really good. [Read more…]