Strawberry Rhubarb Lattice Tart

“Strawberry & Rhubarb” is one of my favorite flavor combinations.  Every spring I eagerly look for the arrival of rhubarb at the markets.  Last year I made strawberry rhubarb hand-pies which were delicious!  This year I thought it would be nice to make a full tart and then to top it with a lattice crust.  I imagined how beautiful the bright pinkish red fruit would look peaking through the lattice, and indeed it turned out to be... [Read More...]

Strawberry Rhubarb Hand Pies

These were the most beautiful looking and fragrant strawberries at the market today. Spring is finally here! And the rhubarb were deep red and lovely. I didn’t want to make and entire pie so I decided to make hand pies with the fruit instead. The easy thing about hand pies is literally that you can take any pie crust recipe you use with any fruit filling recipe you use and make the hand-pies in their shapes instead of an entire pie. The pie... [Read More...]

Strawberry Walnut Salad with Fried Goat Cheese

This is a salad that I have been working on all summer. At the start of the summer I had a really light and wonderful dandelion greens salad at Hundred Acres in NYC. This salad started with that inspiration and has turned into something that I really love. All of the flavors of this dish are powerfully individual but all come together so complimentary. The bitterness of the greens with the tart sweetness of the strawberries, the savoriness of the... [Read More...]