Posts Tagged ‘goat cheese’
Asparagus, Bacon & Goat Cheese Salad
Asparagus season comes but once a year, so we’re enjoying this Asparagus, Bacon & Goat Cheese Salad while we can! Paired with a striking dijon vinaigrette, this salad’s flavors will take you on a nuanced ride: fresh greens to roasted asparagus to smoky bacon to sweetish goat cheese to a punch of mustardiness-garlic spiciness. Yum!…
Read MoreRoasted Beet and Goat Cheese Salad
Something I keep learning as I continue to work at Perkins’ Good Earth Farm is that how your produce is grown and where it comes from matters. For example, I have never liked beets. They stain everything, they smell funny, and I always thought they tasted like dirt. The only time I would eat them…
Read MoreEggplant Crostini with Goat Cheese and Mint
Our standard eggplant-based summer meals are the same year after year: Eggplant Parmesan and Ratatouille. But alas, as the eggplant continues to come in throughout the summer, I don’t always have the time to make these dishes. So I started to explore other ideas for eggplant, like this one for eggplant crostini. The variations for…
Read MoreBreakfast Salad with Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus and Spinach
Nothing says spring like asparagus, those tender tips somehow staying intact as they push themselves up and out of the soil, growing tall into supple purple or green spears, noble and strong, almost too beautiful to eat. And yet eat them we do. Last year our oldest son (5 years old at the time) begged…
Read MoreBaby Beet Greens with Caramelized Onions, Pears, and Goat Cheese
Nearly every Friday at the Perkins’ household, we have Family Movie Night together. The evening basically involves eating pizza on the couch, sipping root beer, and watching a kid-appropriate movie, then dealing with two over-excited boys who would rather battle whatever villain we just encountered in the movie than go to bed. My boys prefer…
Read More