a recipe blog focused on seasonal ingredients
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….
you might think that, having recently made garlic chicken meatballs, this recipe for greek turkey meatballs would have been quick and easy to develop. indeed, i might have thought that. turns out we would have all been mistaken….
friends, i think spring might have finally arrived in maine! the farmers’ market *actually* has vegetables other than kale and winter squash! this is an exciting milestone. it’s sort of a funny thing, having a seasonal food blog in a state where spring and summer – and all of the delicious things that come with them – take their sweet time showing up….
so, this is a little bit out of order, perhaps, but after posting chorizo and sweet potato tacos last week, i realized that not everyone has access to mexican chorizo, which is sad. luckily, mexican chorizo is suuuuper simple to make (if you can open jars of spices, you’re more than halfway there). well, super simple provided you find a recipe you like….