Indigo Rose Tomato Salad with Basil Vinaigrette

Indigo Rose Tomato Salad with Basil Vinaigrette

Indigo Rose Tomatoes. This is a tomato to get excited about. It tastes as good as it looks and might even have better nutritional value to boot! This is one of the finds at the PSU farmers market this past week. 

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Sweet Potato with Cumin Maple

Sweet Potato with Cumin Maple

I'm back from Portland as I mentioned in my previous post and I was tempted to make some kind of crazy bacon donut, or possibly an elaborate meat platter, if you've ever visited Portland you know what I'm talking about, and if you haven't let me just say the city does in fact have the best ham and bacon you will find. 

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Sweet Pea Crostini

Sweet Pea Crostini

I'm back from an east coast trip visiting family and friends and no doubt it had been too long. It felt great to reconnect. This was our first trip out of California since we moved here nearly 2 years ago. California is BIG so even as we've traveled hundreds and hundreds of miles over the past 2 years, we were still in CA. Quite different than the east coast where a 1 hour drive can take you through 3 different states

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Potato Salad with Green Beans + Dill

Potato Salad with Green Beans + Dill

This is one of my favorite potato salads. I'm not sure where or when I started making it, but it definitely wasn't while I was growing up. My mom would make the traditional American potato salad which consisted of potatoes, hard-boiled egg, mayonnaise, onion and salt and pepper. That was it. And that's what I knew of potato salad as a kid.

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