Rich and creamy carbonara gets lightened up with fresh lemon and chives for a dinner that’s ready in just 15 minutes. Serve with a watercress salad dressed in balsamic and grilled flank steak. I’ve been on an Italian kick for the past week or so. Saturday we hosted an Italian Garden Party with some close friends of ours and let me tell you ..it was DELISH! It’s always so fun to get everyone together in the kitchen and create dishes to share. One of the dishes @salinasholcomb prepared was classic carbonara. Rich and creamy with pancetta and English peas. It inspired me to create Lemon Chive Carbonara because it came…
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Layers of beautiful orange persimmons and leafy greens with a dusting of Washington walnuts makes for a festive winter salad. Persimmons in the winter time make me so happy. You see, I’m a salad person and come winter in the Pacific NW we are in a lack of tomatoes phase. So, what a better replacement than sweet persimmons? They have a beautiful orange color, are sweet, but fairly mild with a honey taste and have a similar texture to tomato. In this salad we use chopped walnut because right about this time, the walnuts have dried from the Washington State walnut trees. Drizzle on my house dressing, a shallot vinaigrette,…
