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Spinach Salad with Poppyseed Dressing
I love finding treasures, how about you? To me, they often come in the most unexpected places - like this delightful set of salad bowls I'm using for today's Spinach Salad with Poppyseed Dressing. You'll never believe where I found them. Scott and I did a bit of exploring last week, discovering an area of southern Virginia, not far from our daughter's home. We were thrilled to find a recently ...
Read More →Mediterranean Roasted Vegetable and Pearl Pasta Salad
Do you ever wish you could be a mouse in someone else's house? You probably would have been a laughing mouse had you been there, peeping out of your little mouse hole (nibbling, on a few spheres of tender pearl pasta that had inadvertently rolled your way) and watching Scott and I as we sat down to enjoy this Mediterranean Roasted Vegetable and Pearl Pasta Salad. We'd just finished ...
Read More →Pan-Seared Salmon with Orange-Coconut Sauce
Pan-Seared Salmon with Orange-Coconut Sauce - This one is as delicious as it looks! The sweet and spicy sauce adds an amazing layer of flavor to the salmon. Did you know salmon is one of the easiest fish to cook? Does cooking fish ever scare you? Honestly, for the longest time, I wouldn't purchase fish, because I was scared to death I'd ruin it! I grew up in a small town in the Midwest. We ...
Read More →Ginger Toffee Cookies
Ginger Toffee Cookies We took a long crunchy walk yesterday ... Crunchy? Yup, crunchy. If you've been keeping up with the news here in the States, you might have heard that the South got blasted with a crazy bunch of snow and ice. Raleigh, where we live, has been basically shut down; school has been cancelled for three days now, most businesses have been closed and if you're brave enough to ...
Read More →Roasted Tomato Basil Bisque
This never, EVER happens here in North Carolina! They're predicting snow for the NEXT THREE DAYS!! Many winters, we get either no snow or, at most, just a flurry here and there. The meteorologists get all excited at even the possibility of winter weather and, consequently, get all of us "lay" people totally psyched up. Everywhere you go there's an excited buzz ("Did you hear they're predicting ...
Read More →Citrus, Strawberry and Avocado Salad
I didn't want you to think I'd jumped over the deep edge .... I mean, with my Winter White Red Velvet Fudge, Pink Citrus Granita and Five Sweet Sensations for Your Sweetheart posts all in one week, I didn't want you to think I'd gone off on a sugar binge, never to return to sensibleness. Nope, not me! After sampling a few too many of the above named Valentine treats (of course, I do it for ...
Read More →Winter White Red Velvet Fudge
This Winter White Red Velvet Fudge is delicious, beautiful and perfect for any season! Make it for your next party or for gifts!
I've been in mad-scientist mode again this past week. Don't ask me why, but an idea to make Winter White Red Velvet Fudge popped into my head out of nowhere. I loved the idea and thought it would be a delightful treat for Valentines and also for Christmas, so I ...Read More →Pink Citrus Granita
Have you ever tasted something so deliciously fresh and vibrant, that you couldn't stop eating it ........... until the bowl was squeaky-clean-empty? That's how we were with this Pink Citrus Granita; with fresh lemon, lime and grapefruit juice and zest, it absolutely bursts with delightful flavor. A splash of Grand Marnier takes the already wonderful granita to the crème de la crème level. What ...
Read More →Five Sweet Sensations for Your Sweetheart
Did you know it's official now? In fact, three days ago we entered into ........... ............. bona fide Cupid Month! That means it fairly legal to indulge in and/or share a sweet treat or two this month. Here at The Café we've got a few favorites that we've enjoyed for Valentine's gone by. Check out the line up over at PARADE Magazine, I think you'll find something your sweetheart, family ...
Read More →Best Caramel Cake Recipe
Dear Rose, If you're out there somewhere, please forgive me, but I just couldn't do it. You might not understand, but I just couldn't. Let me explain. Okay, here goes - you see, I have a blog called The Café Sucré Farine (that's French and you can read all about the name here). I do this "blog thing" together with my best friend, Scott, who's also my husband, photographer, chief ...
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