Shoestring French Fries with Peach Ketchup
Tangy, sweet and spicy—this ketchup can double as a barbecue sauce. It is just as fabulous slathered on a piece of grilled chicken or pork chops, as it is with salty fries.
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Roasted Peaches with Yogurt and Granola
A peach in August talks. It tells you how harsh days can yield something sweet. How, often, it is after the flower fades that growth, and something truly remarkable, can happen.
Strawberry-Pretzel Ice Cream Cake
Have you ever had Strawberry-Pretzel Salad Dessert? This is that delicious and nostalgic dish in ice cream form.
Sweet Potato Dutch Baby
Every once in a while I think of mornings in the different places I have lived. I push through the kitchen door to make coffee in my century-old Sherman Hill apartment in Des Moines. I walk out onto the porch to see the fog lifting around Grandfather Mountain in Boone as I head off to class.
Roasted Beet Risotto
It all began with a handsome little bundle of beets—a mix of baby and striped chioggia (aka candy cane) beets—that caught my eye at the farmer’s market. There was still time before the lion of March turned into a lamb and I wanted one more hearty cool weather dish, a satisfying risotto.
