This dish started the way many of my favorite recipes do. With a plan, a fridge check, and a small disappointment. I usually reach for goat cheese when roasting beets. It’s the classic pairing, tangy and familiar. But after a thorough and very hopeful search of the fridge, there was no goat cheese to beContinue reading “Roasted Beet & Fresh Mozzarella Stack with Thai Basil and Meyer Lemon”
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Cilantro Garlic Chimichurri Sauce
This cilantro-forward chimichurri is bright, punchy, and deeply versatile. It brings citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs together in a way that feels effortless but delivers big flavor. I make it often and always make extra because it disappears quickly. Note, if you have a taste aversion to cilantro, a quick swap to Parsley works perfectly!Continue reading “Cilantro Garlic Chimichurri Sauce”
The Missing Garlic in Milan
Food Guru Travel Note Travel has always been my favorite way to understand a place. Not through museums or monuments first, but through kitchens, markets, and the quiet rules people cook by without thinking about them. In Milan, a city known as much for restraint as for style, a small cooking class taught me somethingContinue reading “The Missing Garlic in Milan”
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