a recipe blog focused on seasonal ingredients
weelllllll helllllo! it. has. been. a. MINUTE. by which i might mean year. i didn’t mean to ghost on you, things have just been a bit busy. just about a year ago, i got a full-time job, which has been great, but it’s taken me a little bit to figure out how to reconfigure my life so that i can fit this cooking / photographing / chatting with you piece back in.
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i know we already have one broccoli salad buuut, it turns out i really like them and we’re doing another! this time it’s spicy miso tahini broccoli salad. we throw a bunch of yummy things (ginger! garlic! jalapeños! cilantro! lime juice! tahini! miso!) in the blender and then in practically no time, we’re crunching on a bowl of savory, sweet, creamy, and crunchy spicy miso tahini broccoli salad. all summer long….
a while back, i was trying to create a raw broccoli slaw with a vaguely mexican-inspired dressing. while the creamy jalapeño cilantro sauce i tried didn’t really accomplish what i was going for, it turned out to be delicious on… every other thing there ever once was….
those of you with an especially keen eye might notice that the “peanut” (more on the quotations marks in a moment) sauce on this grilled chicken with spicy peanut sauce recipe bears a strong resemblance to the sauce used in the spicy sesame beef and broccoli. and by “strong resemblance”, i mean it’s exactly the same. hooray for repurposing leftovers into new recipes!…
team, we’re doing it: we’re putting bacon *in* our burgers. yep. we’re grinding up bacon ends, combining that with ground beef, and shaping it into bacon burgers. and we’re not sad about it. not one bit.
these bacon burgers were one of my first reintroductions to beef after an, oh, 29-year hiatus. and i can honestly say that now i get what all the fuss about good burgers is about. and these bacon burgers are some good burgers….