holiday cookie box 2020
Here it is! The inaugural Venturing East cookie box. Don’t let the variety intimidate you – there is no one perfect way to…
Category: Recipes
sausage fennel and kale pizza
I only recently accepted fennel bulbs into my cooking repertoire. They’re so funky looking that I assumed a high difficulty level in dealing…
salt n’ pepper delicata squash tacos with pomegranate orange salsa
Simplest little dudes for a tasty Taco Wednesday. Delicata squash rings roasted with nothing more than a little olive oil, s&p, then topped…
honey basil pear brussels sprouts and cranberry chevre crostini
Look familiar? I featured these crostini on Venturing East’s Instagram in one of my Trader Joe’s hauls. Each week I develop a simple…
coconut lime crusted fish tacos with apple cranberry chutney
Too pretty to eat? Never. I am a total boof when it comes to breading any type of food, so succeeding in these…
pumpkin cake with gingerbread buttercream
The perfect sweet treat to segue between autumn and Christmas, am I right? A tempting two-layer pumpkin body enrobed in a spicy molasses-based…
spanakopita tacos with crispy dill chickpea
Truth be told, I don’t really like the typical spanakopita pastry. I’m not sure what frozen brands tend to add to the filling…
toasted walnut mushroom and barley stuffed acorn squash with rosemary honey
A mere few sleeps remain until Thanksgiving and some of you procrastinators may be struggling to scrounge up a good main or hearty…
apple cider glazed baked salmon with butternut squash quinoa pilaf
If this isn’t an autumnal blast in your maw, I don’t know what to tell you. The glaze on this salmon is so…
chorizo breakfast tacos with elote sauce
Sometimes you want breakfast twice a day. Or thrice. Upon returning home from one of our Colorado vacations a year or so ago,…