A root vegetable salad that uses all the fresh spring vegetables! One of the best parts of our weekly trips to the farmer’s markets is the ever changing variety of produce that we have a chance to explore. This week we ran across a new kind of beet for us at one of the …
Railcar Modern American Kitchen Restaurant, a great west Omaha dining spot, is train themed. In the heyday of rail travel, one of the ways that railroads competed for customers was to offer the best in customer comforts and that meant that the dining car cuisine soon rivaled the meals found in fine dining restaurants …
A great, tart lemon juice and pisco in this Pisco Sour Cocktail! For this post we are going to go back to the classics with the Pisco Sour Cocktail. Reputed to have been invented in Lima, Peru back in the 1920’s, the Pisco Sour is the national drink of both Chile and Peru and …
A Spicy Peach Margarita recipe, this frozen margarita one is a great combo of sweet and heat! A good cocktail is a study in melding contrasting flavors into a combination that pleases your senses. One of the most fun flavor combinations is taking sweet and heat and letting those two flavors play off of …
We love our local Omaha Farmer’s Market here in Nebraska! We hope you will see why: #1 The New Items The waiting in anticipation for whatever new items – produce, products and food to take home that week! We can’t wait to see what we will be cooking or making the next week! #2 …
Is there any better combo than a strawberry and rhubarb dessert? We don’t think so! Check out this strawberry rhubarb galette! The end of May means its rhubarb and strawberry season. Sweet strawberries temper the tart rhubarb to make a seriously delicious team. On one of recent sojourns to the Omaha Farmer’s Market, we …
A Rhubarb Basil smash is a refreshing summer cocktail. Tart rhubarb used in sweet syrup and muddled basil gives an herbal addition. Rhubarb and basil, fresh out of our garden into a cocktail! One of our favorite things about the early season farmer’s markets are the fresh herbs and wonderfully tart fresh rhubarb of …
An Easter dessert, a carrot cheesecake perfect for Easter brunch or any spring celebration! With spring in the air, we wanted to make a dessert that would reflect the fresh start of the seasons. This carrot cheesecake was new to us, so in the spirit of something new, we decided to give it a …
An easy boozy dessert, this one hits all the flavors of the classic Old Fashioned cocktail, but in Panna Cotta form. We always talk about how bitters are a valuable ingredient in making cocktails, but they can also be used to add flavors to food as well. Wanting to use our newly made Coffee …
A fresh and tart combination of pineapple and cilantro makes a great Pineapple Cilantro Margarita Recipe. This simple cocktail is easy to make at home and the flavors are great together! Always have a top notch margarita or paloma in your hand for Cinco de Mayo or all summer long! We wanted a brand …