No longer updating, but hope you enjoy the recipes!
Unfortunately, I got too busy to go back to blogging, after I was forced to take a break from it in 2015 because of tendonitis.
But you can still follow my cooking, eating, and travels on instagram: (@spontaneoustomato)
Sweet Potato Gnocchi in Rosemary Butter
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Last week I browsed through about seventeen different internet collections of Thanksgiving side dish recipes.
Would you believe that one of them included gnocchi? To me, gnocchi is no side dish.
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Not in terms of how filling it is. Not in terms of the amount of time it takes to prepare. And most importantly, not in terms of its elevated position among my mental list of Things That Are Delicious. (…its very very elevated position.)
Skillet Cranberry Apple Crisp (Gluten-Free)
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Happy Thanksgiving!
This year I’m grateful to be able to spend all day in my kitchen, cooking and eating– one of my favorite ways to spend a day.
(I’m also grateful for food blogs and instant recipe-googling, despite my undying love of actual cookbooks.)
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When you have a lot to cook in a limited time, sometimes all the careful planning and bookmarking of recipes– whether with sticky post-its or with the click of a mouse– can go out the window.
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Lemon Roasted Broccoli with Pine Nuts
Remember when I told you I’d become obsessed with oven-roasted broccoli?
Well it was all I could do not to post this recipe immediately after that one (about roasted delicata squash and chickpeas… and broccoli or kale), but then I worried that you’d know the extent of my obsession and just how serious it was.
Instead I’ve posted two entire recipes in between! Although one of them also involves roasting things (a chicken on a bed of root vegetables— including the surprise hit: the purple potato).
I guess you could say that I am happy to be able to use my oven again without it immediately driving the temperature of my apartment up above 85 degrees.
Whole Roasted Lemon Rosemary Chicken with Root Vegetables
I’m not a vegetarian, but turkey is my least favorite part about the traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
Roasted vegetables and baked chestnutty stuffing make for some tempting side dishes, especially when they’re topped off with tart homemade cranberry sauce. That alone would be enough to make me very happy. (That and pie.)
Also: I hope no one jumps down my throat to disagree with me here, but… I usually find turkey to be too dry. (Maybe I’m just picky though; I often have the same complaint about the white meat of chicken– give me a drumstick over a slice of chicken breast and I’ll be a happy camper.)
So with all this turkey apathy in mind– that and the fact that our Thanksgiving guest list so far includes just me and my girlfriend– we will be roasting a chicken instead of a turkey this year!
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Pear and Pomegranate Salad with Hazelnuts
As Thanksgiving approaches and my list of things-to-cook grows ever longer– in some kind of cruel inverse proportion to the rapidly shrinking hours of daylight– I occasionally need to step back and reach for something simpler.
Simple as, say, a recipe with a mere three ingredients!
(Three or four, that is… sometimes I just can’t resist.)
This salad is yet another dish that I associate with my family’s beloved winter solstice party.
I think perhaps my mom made it up? It’s a winter salad, just as much as an autumn one: sliced crisp pears, drizzled in fresh lemon juice, and tossed with crunchy tart pomegranate seeds.* My only innovation has been to add hazelnuts!
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Roasted Delicata Squash with Chickpeas, Potatoes, and Kale
Prepare yourselves: this dish is a strange one.
It’s a weird but unexpectedly good adaptation of a recipe with a weird but unexpectedly good combination of flavors, that just doesn’t look that appealing (in my opinion), and probably doesn’t sound all that appealing either.
I almost didn’t post it.
The original recipe is from the super awesome Super Natural Every Day
The only problem was that it contained miso. A lot of miso. And for someone who loves miso soup, my girlfriend can’t take the strong miso flavor when it come to other things like roasting rubs or marinades…
spontaneous tomato 