• Rosemary Foccacia Bread
    BREADS

    Easy Rosemary Focaccia Bread

    This easy rosemary focaccia bread is so easy to make. Just a few simple ingredients and you can have a beautiful homemade focaccia bread in no time! We’ve had a very challenging week around here, but things are feeling a bit more hopeful today, thankfully. It’s a rainy day here today, so I thought it might be a good day to ‘nest’ a little and do a bit of baking. This focaccia bread recipe comes from the Epicurius website Rosemary Olive Focaccia Bread. I didn’t really change much except for leaving out the olives from their recipe and adding salt on top instead. Olives would be wonderful here, but my…

  • Linguine tomato caper burrata
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    Linguine with Tomatoes, Capers and Burrata

    This simple and delicious linguine with tomatoes and burrata is so good. Linguine adorned with a simple sauce made with olive oil, fresh tomatoes, thinly sliced garlic, fresh arugula, and capers. Top it off with some creamy burrata and a sprinkling of toasted homemade breadcrumbs to finish. So simple and so good. Pasta is pretty much one of my favorite things to eat, I absolutely love it! Admittedly, I can be a bit of a ‘pasta snob’. There are a few tips to make sure that you have a great pasta dish. Tips for making perfect pasta Make sure that you cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling…

  • Orecchiette with Broccoli and Anchovies
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    Orecchiette with Broccoli and Anchovies

    It’s been a hectic week and I haven’t had much time for cooking. I needed something really quick to make today before heading out to meet clients and this Orecchiette with Broccoli and Anchovies is what I decided on. Maybe eating a bunch of pasta adorned with garlic and anchovies is not such a great idea for a meal right before you meet with clients but, of course, I can’t turn down pasta like EVER! Although, you can feel good about this Orecchiette with Broccoli and Anchovies as it does have a heck of a lot of broccoli in it. It will feel as though you are overcooking the broccoli…

  • Tuscan Bread Salad with the BEST Basil Vinaigrette Ever (Whitewater Cooks)
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    Tuscan Bread Salad with the BEST Basil Vinaigrette

    You are going to want to grab a pen!  No, seriously I think this is one of the best salad dressings I have made!  Make it – thank me later! This Tuscan Bread Salad with the BEST Basil Vinaigrette is from a cookbook by Shelley Adams called Whitewater Cooks I bought all three of her books a few months back and proceeded to lose  misplace them.  I actually re-ordered them because I searched everywhere with no luck.  My husband cleaned the garage on the weekend and found them (go figure)!  Why were they in the garage – don’t ask.  I guess when the new ones come in someone will be…