Basil Mayo

This tastes like summer. Homemade mayonnaise perfumed with spicy-sweet basil. Can you just imagine this on a tomato sandwich?

Roasted Butternut Squash with Ras El Hanout

Ras el hanout is a North African spice blend that’s exotically aromatic—perfect tossed with roasted butternut squash, draped in yogurt and studded with pomegranate and cilantro.

Risotto del Mar

My ideal image of not only the perfect risotto but also my ultimate comfort food would have to be a big bowl of creamy, luxurious risotto, clattering about in my bowl from the sounds of shells clanking around, offering up their tenderly sweet but briney decadence – piccoli gioielli del mare!