I have a note on our kitchen bulletin board. The note is the last one my mother wrote to my daughter before she died. Mom secretly stuffed it in her lunch box on the way to day camp. My daughter, then 6, thought enough of the note to save it and to not throw it away like any 6 year old would in the fury of scavenging for their lunch food. So, you can imagine how my heart raced when a childhood friend posted a handwritten recipe card of Mom’s in a Facebook message to me. The Roasted Red Pepper Dip recipe! I remember eating it … [Read more...]
Broccomole
Calling all broccoli lovers: The other day I had a full head of broccoli that I needed to use before it started to turn. And, with Cinco de Mayo on my brain, I figured I’d try to make a nice dip for some blue corn tortilla chips. My household is certainly obsessed with anything related to avocados (there’s always at least two ripening in a brown bag behind one of my cabinets) most importantly our famed recipe and video for Guacomole dip and our celebrated recipe for Baked Stuffed Avocados. But, a nice, cool low(er) fat fresh broccoli dip … [Read more...]