Pepper, Onion & Salami Calzone- March 30, 2010

Mmmm... I love calzones. I usually use store-bought pizza dough, as you need more than my recipe makes and it makes it very easy. Just remember to take it out of the refrigerator several hours before you roll it. I sauteed the onions and peppers and added thinly sliced peppered salami. My husband says the key to a good calzone is lots of cheese and we used a lot of shredded mozzarella. I served it with store-bought pasta sauce. Yummy and easy!

Kurobuta Pork Chops with a Red Wine Currant & Blackberry Reduction & Butter-Poached Young Vidalia Onions- March 9, 2010

Its always dangerous when I go to Wellesley as I end up going to The Cheese Shop or John Dewar! Yesterday I went to John Dewar's for some Kurobuta pork. I don't love pork chops, but these are a whole different world. When meat gets that expensive I don't cook it, I have my husband do it. And you can rest assured whenever there is some sort of sauce involved he's cooked. He has a talent for just coming up with these things, really.

Horne's Mixed Green Salad Du Jour- February 21, 2010

We often make "meal" salads. Basically, we use a meat (usually chicken or some cut of beef- tenderloin, flank) some mixed greens (spring, baby, mache), grilled veggies (peppers, squash, onion), cheese (goat, blue, Parmesan), nuts (walnuts, pepitas, almonds) and of course some grilled ciabatta bread brushed with goat butter. We always make our own dressing- some sort of vinaigrette.
Tonight we did grilled chicken with a light rub, grilled poblano pepper, grilled onions, a little blue cheese & walnuts. My husband made a blood orange vinaigrette, and we had a pinot noir. Yummy!