Love this idea I adapted from a recipe in Fine Cooking magazine. You may remember a decade or more of pre-dinner nibbles served in endive leaves . In many years worth of variations, I don’t ever remember seeing one with sweet potatoes – but what a great combination of creamy, sweet sweet potatoes with the slightly bitter endive leaves.
This weather makes me think of eating popcorn balls, something we made at home as kids. You could adapt this idea for any nut, but this reminds me a bit of Cracker Jacks.
Leftover cranberry sauce or relish from Thanksgiving? Perfect here. Or use dried cranberries instead. These turnovers are buttery and flaky and go together in a flash. If you buy a box of phyllo especially for this recipe, wrap the remaining phyllo well and refrigerate it for up to a week, or return it to the freezer.
Adapted from a recipe in the November 2011 issue of Saveur magazine. Potatoes and rutabagas are a great combination.
An adaptation of a recipe from the Los Angeles Times, this dinner goes together quickly.
One more recipe from my AJC archives ….
Even in winter I like dinner salads – especially those with cheese and nuts and fruit. This adaptation of a traditional Waldorf salad combines some of my favorite ingredients. The honey mustard dressing is a nice foil for the richness of smoked Gouda and the sweet crunch of the apples. Use all one variety of apple or mix them for contrasting flavors and colors. Substitute Swiss cheese for the Gouda if you’re not fond of smoked cheeses.
This is a recipe we ran in the AJC last January. I thought it was absolutely delicious – a nice variation from more traditional chicken soups.
This recipe came from Fine Cooking magazine about a decade ago. You can whip up the mayonnaise any time and use it for all kinds of purposes. The recipe looks like it has a lot of ingredients, but adapt it to what’s in the pantry. Do you still have a few jalapenos hanging around? Perfect. No red pepper, leave it out. Cook the eggs anyway you like, although fried eggs would be traditional.
I found this recipe In Sheri Castle’s book “”The New Southern Garden Cookbook: Enjoying the Best from Homegrown Gardens, Farmers’ Markets, Roadside Stands, and CSA Farm Boxes” (University of North Carolina Press, $35). This is a recipe she wrote for sweet potatoes – but could be adapted for parsnips, carrots, pumpkin or winter squash as well as for rutabagas. Rosemary is winter hardy and your rutabagas will keep, wrapped in plastic, in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks, so you can enjoy this dish later this month or perhaps even in January.
One of the ways many of us preserve a bounty of basil is by making pesto. How about adapting that idea for the collard greens in this week’s box so you can enjoy them for another few weeks? Stir it into pasta, add some to a batch of field peas, serve it as bruschetta at your next party.
It seems this is an idea that’s been around for a while. Here’s one version I found adapted from a recipe originally in Gourmet magazine in 2004. Now you can adapt it to suit your taste.