Seasonal Recipe: Grilled Tilapia with Tomato & Pepper Saute

Grilled Tilapia with Tomato-Pepper Saute

Today’s recipe couldn’t get more simple, or more straight forward.  It capitalizes on the intense flavor of  juicy cherry tomatoes, the sweet crispness of bell peppers, and the succulence of grilled fish.  I know that it seems like I am slacking on this recipe, but I promise you don’t need a lot of ingredients when [...]

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Seasonal Recipe: Peach-Honey Barbeque Sauce

Peach-Honey Barbeque Chicken

This month I kicked off a partnership with Macaroni Kid: Macaroni Military Family.  For those who may not be familiar, Macaroni Kid is a group of publishers that focus on providing details for family-friendly events and activities in communities across the U.S. via a free weekly newsletter.  It’s an incredible resource for finding things to [...]

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Chicken Burgers with Sun-Dried Tomato Garlic Scape Pesto

Chicken Burgers with Sun-dried Tomato Garlic Scape Pesto

Today’s recipe title sounds like a bit of a mouthful, but I can assure you, it’s a tasty mouthful!  Last weekend I couldn’t resist picking up some garlic scapes at the weekly farmers’ market.  I adore trying something new and they smelled far too delicious to pass up. Garlic scapes are the curly topped stems [...]

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Grilled Figs

I picked up some fresh figs at this week’s Farmer’s market because they looked just too beautiful to pass up.  I haven’t done much cooking with figs so I put an all points bulletin out on Facebook and Twitter looking for recipe suggestions.  One of my favorite Twitter friends and all around good guy, @streske18, [...]

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Kebabs 1 night=Dinner for 3 nights!

I am excited to say things are busy here at Kate’s Thoughts for Food as I prepare to launch new product offerings next week.  I’ve been a busy bee teaching myself CSS design to update my site (what was I thinking??) and educating myself on new products.  The good news is that I will be [...]

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Supremely Perfect Fish Tacos

I adore fish tacos.  There is no other way to say it.  I crave them on a daily basis, which is crazy when you think that a couple of years ago you couldn’t even get me to try one.  Fish in a taco?  Yuck!  That was back in the days when I though strawberries were [...]

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One last official barbecue & Grilled Southwestern Potato Salad

It was a wonderful Labor Day weekend, complete with a visit from my wonderful friend and cousin, plenty of wine tasting, some sunny California weather, and one last official barbecue.  (I say official because you can barbecue year round in CA, but it’s just not the same in January.) I was inspired by a posting [...]

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