A variety of small plates, aka tapas.

Some of you have probably read where I fell in love over the summer with Cafe Souerette in West Bend. The spouse and I particularly like their Farmer’s Market Tapas dinners held once a month during the season. Last Saturday was the last one. But we didn’t go. I had emailed the spouse on Friday to [...]

Gingersnap pumpkin filled cookies

Oh, I know it’s not a good thing to be thinking food so early in the morning, (I did just have cannellini bean salad for breakfast.) but I saw this picture and I started thinking. One of my favorite fall recipes is the pumpkin cream cheese dip you have with gingersnaps. What if you made filled [...]

For dinner this weekend

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I ran across this combination from Design Sponge. It looks pretty tasty, don’t you think? I looked through the list of contents, and I’ll be able to count it up easily. I will have to look for some Sriracha chili sauce, and then I’ll go light on it for the dressing because I’m a wimp. [...]

I ate my own basil tonight.

They were only planted the first week of June, I had grown them from seed again, but they are gorgeous. I had them with fresh mozzarella from Aldi’s and grocery store tomatoes. (No, I really didn’t plant any this year.) Also, for the first time I made a balsamic vinegar reduction to go with the [...]

Showing my mussels

Ok, a little confession first. The spouse and I have eaten lunch at a restaurant downtown for three days in a row. Thursday was Karl Ratzsch’s, Friday was Libiamo, and today was Swig. The whole thing started when the youngest proclaimed last week she wanted to eat at Karl Ratzsch’s. I picked up a Downtown [...]