Appetizers
Caprese salad with hydroponic tomatoes, watercress, and creamy mozzarella, is a great way to enjoy the flavors of freshly grown ingredients.
A genuinely delicious Italian gnocchi with Montasio Cheese, poppy seeds and speck.
Back from a week on the road, Christina Soong-Kroeger is happy to get her hands dirty in the kitchen again.
A simple and delicious way to take heart: skewered and dressed in a fresh herb vinaigrette.
These dainty purple beauties are sharp and delicious in taste, perfect for frying.
Cooking mussels is quick, easy, and best done outside in the sunshine, with a cold beer.
This cashew chutney is an ideal dip or spread for crackers, chips, pita or breads wraps.
A crispy spiced aubergine that holds itself well when paired with a ginger-mustard mayo.
In this dish, cauliflower florets have a crispy coating and are tossed in a mouth watering Manchurian sauce.
A simple baked eggplant dish that’s gluten-free, dairy-free and vegetarian.
Finger sandwiches featuring goat cheese, hot pepper jelly, and pecans
Ajvar is the classic – and utterly delicious – red pepper relish from the Balkans.
These delicious bean and sausage potato cups almost look like savory cupcakes.
As spring vegetables appear on the stands of the Greenmarket, Laura is purchasing as many of them as she possibly can eat.
A deliciously spicy and tangy dish – the perfect beer snack from India.
This is killer a killer appetizer – two ingredients, both grated, squeezed of excess water, and fried in a pan.
This is a cute way of serving eggs during Easter. You don’t need to make dough for the baskets, just use regular bread toast.
Hog Island Oysters that are delicious any way you make them, so try them both ways.
Chicharrón is a dish made of fried pork skin. It is hugely popular in Latin America. And it it delicious.
Individual won ton cups filled with a healthy twist on classic baby spinach dip.
These golden fried lamb and chickpea nuggets from Amrita Chowdhury are as easy as they are addictive.
This baby bok choy and avocado salad is fun, fresh, unique and as Chris Scheuer’s husband says, “amazingly delicious”.
Tequeños are small sticks of cheese wrapped in slightly sweet dough and fried to golden perfection. It wouldn’t be a party without them
A delicious vegetarian black eyed pea dip from the banks of the Mississippi.
Trix Middlekauff won our own Nancy Lopez-McHugh’s monthly YBR contest over at SpicieFoodie.com. Part of the price is having the recipe featured right here on Honest Cooking.
Chioggia Beet and Fennel Salad – quick and easy, with julienned raw beets.
A healthy raw cashew and date spread, perfect for snacking without breaking any resolutions.
Natalie McLaury serves a hummus that tastes like your favorite bar food
A creamy soup to lift tempers and temperatures during the last cold weeks of winter.
Arepas are a traditional corn meal patty from Venezuela that are split in half and stuffed with cheese, meat, butter or eggs.
Alisha Randell about a few areas everyone needs to consider while entertaining.
Crunchy bits of bacon, the subtle sweetness of fig and the heartiness of corn meal make these savory waffles a perfect item for Valentines breakfast.
A show-stopping salad featuring luscious figs and prosciutto ham.
This simple recipe for preparing Maine sweet shrimp makes an elegant appetizer for 3 or 4 people or could be eaten as a lovely light dinner for one.
Aged for at least 120 days, Roumi cheese, especially melted, leaves lingering traces in the room that are slow to dissipate.
This type of gnocchi is a traditional dish of the Trento area, capital of the region of Trentino
Dress up your pot of chili and pan of cornbread by transforming the duo into a savory cobbler.
A delicious take on caprese salad with tomatoes, basil and roasted garlic.
In compact NYC apartments, locals wait all year for wintertime – so they can use the hell out of their ovens.
Balanced in fresh flavor and texture, this is a California style brunch.
Amaranth was the wonder food of the Aztecs. A gluten-free, psuedo-grain, amaranth provides stunning levels of protein, calcium, fiber and iron.
A deliciously satisfying breakfast of Greek yogurt, pistachios and honey.
A sweet and savory take on the Indian samosas, these pastries are stuffed with apples and raisins.
Shatteringly crisp, paper thin, fabulously delicious. Make your own gourmet sea salt crackers for next to nothing.
This Sweet Potato and Fennel Frittata is an easy breakfast or brunch dish that works great when it’s just your family or when hosting a casual get-together.
A wholesome dish that satiates the taste-buds elegantly, the pulao or pilaf is a perfect sunday lunch.
Curry herring is a staple on any Danish Christmas lunch table. Kalle Bergman shares Mrs Bergman’s praise winning recipe.
Need a delicious but quick idea to serve your guests before the real meal is served? Marnely Rodriguez to the rescue.
This Christmas morning, Nicole Criss suggests you share something decadent for breakfast.
The really great thing about these Mushroom and Carameliszed Onion Polenta Squares is that you can prepare all of the ingredients the day before and simply fry the polenta and assemble on the day.
One of the most respected French Chefs in NYC, Christian Delouvrier, shares his secret to making a perfect countryside tarte.
This method works very well with mustard greens, beet greens, kale, escarole, dandelion greens and taioba alike.
A delicious appetizer with mashed potatoes and turkey accompanied by a sweet and hot cranberry ginger chutney.
These fun puff pastry appetizers turn the cracker spread into a hand-held appetizer.
Crispy lentil and rice pancakes that promise a wholesome and filling breakfast.