May 16, 2017

Heather Hands

Carrot Cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese ...

Carrot cake is a quintessential dessert of spring. This recipe is moist slightly sweet, and perfectly spiced. It is paired with a rich and velvety cream cheese frosting.

April 25, 2017

Heather Hands

Avocado and Asparagus Tartines with Basil Pesto

Asparagus is so beautiful this time of year, so I wanted to create a recipe around it. I made some basil and pumpkin seed pesto, and drizzled it on toasted bread with asparagus, avocado, and shaved Parmesan.

September 16, 2013

Heather Hands

Pancakes with Concord Grape Syrup

Because his family is a true-to-the-bone pancake family, I really wanted him to share with me the secrets to making a good pancake, thin and delicate, perfectly browned on the outside, soft on the inside. He gave me a recipe, one that he has memorized. A set of very specific instructions, the right temp, the right amount of time for frying. I followed it to a tee, and sure enough, the pancakes came out the way I had always dreamed they would.

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November 14, 2019

Brown Butter Maple Roasted Carrots

Heather Hands

November 14, 2019

Once you have tasted these brown butter maple carrots, you won’t want to eat your carrots any other way. They are soft, tender, caramelized, buttery, and sweet. You can serve them as a side dish, or as the star of the show.

Heather Hands

March 6, 2014

Balsamic Roasted Beets, Sweet Orange, and Chévre Salad with Pumpkin Seeds

Heather Hands

March 6, 2014

Balsamic Roasted Beets, Sweet Orange, and Chévre Salad with Pumpkin Seeds

After my last trip to the grocery store, where I impulse bought way too many oranges (don't know what I was thinking, how many oranges can one person eat?), I have been trying to come up with inventive ways of using them in recipes. After my failed attempt at making beet pasta, I was now left with a big bunch of beets. Clearly, the beets and oranges were meant to be together, tucked away in the vegetable crisper by themselves.