This post is sponsored by the Certified Angus Beef ® brand in conjunction with a social media campaign through Sunday Supper LLC. All opinions are my own. December is such a busy time in my house with holiday concerts (for both kids!), end-of-the-year events, and, of course, holiday shopping. (My family celebrates Hanukkah but we also ...
Spiced Parsnip Cake with Maple Ginger Cream Cheese Frosting
Move over, carrot cake. This parsnip cake is moist and spicy and topped with an irresistible maple ginger cream cheese frosting. Oh yes, parsnip cake is most definitely a thing! I love the idea of using fruit in savory dishes and vegetables in sweet dishes. You know, just to confound expectations. It's way more interesting to put cherries ...
Brussel Sprouts with Pickled Cranberries and Pecans
A perfect Thanksgiving side dish: roasted Brussel sprouts drizzled with a touch of honey and tossed with pickled cranberries and toasted pecans. After I posted the recipe for pickled cranberries last week, I received a few comments along the lines of: "That's nice, but what am I supposed to do with pickled cranberries?" I mean, I did give ...
Chocolate Orange Bread Pudding
My husband's birthday is this week and among his all-time favorite desserts is bread pudding, so that is what I will make. Although you wouldn't know it from the mild temperatures we had all weekend, it's still winter, and to me, winter means citrus. So this bread pudding is flavored with chocolate and orange. And just to make sure my birthday boy ...
Roasted Cauliflower Soup
Meal planning in January can be struggle between our New Year's resolutions to eat healthier and our desire for comfort foods to warm our souls in the dark of winter. Consider the struggle over. This rich, creamy roasted cauliflower soup will satisfy your cravings for warmth and comfort without causing any guilt because it's nutritious, meatless, ...
Potato Leek Soup (Potage Parmentier)
In the Victorian Christmas carol "In the Bleak Midwinter," which was based on a poem by Christina Rossetti, there is a line: "Snow had fallen, snow on snow/Snow on snow[.]" That line seems particularly apt right now as Chicago braces itself for not one but two possible winter storms over the next 48 hours. What to eat when you are facing the ...
Meyer Lemon Recipe Round-Up
It's specialty citrus season! Exotic varieties of citrus are one of the few culinary highlights in the otherwise bleak Chicago winter. Like an antidote to the winter doldrums, a new kind of citrus fruit arrives in the stores every week during the winter months. Pomelos, tangelos, blood oranges, Key limes and Meyer lemons are just some of the ...