A simple mixture of toasted walnuts and sherry vinegar provides a rich, yet good-for-you dip for the artichoke leaves. Remove the leaves and dip into walnut vinaigrette, using your teeth to scrape the meat found on the inside of the artichoke leaf. Make sure to remove the fuzzy choke from the center of the artichoke before eating the heart.
Sure, we could have gone with six, but at what cost? Lose the sour cream, or the zesty salsa, or the melted shredded cheese or....No. Seven layers. Get a little in each bite.
This Pot-Roasted Eggplant with Tomatoes and Cumin recipe contains extra-virgin olive oil, eggplant, diced tomatoes, cloves garlic, cayenne pepper and more.
It's pretty apparent by the monstrous recipe index on this blog that I bake a lot. And "a lot" is a minuscule term to use how much I really bake. Recipes are cranked out of my head and my kitchen a...