Thai Basil Chicken with Mango Salsa

(Adapted from Half Baked Harvest) I adore Thai food – especially good peanut sauce! This recipe has it all in spades: peanut sauce, zesty mango salsa, coconut milk with soy sauce and fish sauce, and the whole thing is served over fluffy rice. It’s so so...

Tuscan Lasagna

THE best lasagna I have ever put in my mouth was in Tuscany. I was traveling there with my family, and we spent the day at a winery (Torciano Tenuto). We had a wine tasting that was spectacular in a private wine cellar. The tasting paired the winery’s various...

Spanish Bean Soup

(Adapted from The Columbia Restaurant) I grew up vacationing in Longboat Key with my family, and every summer we’d trek to Sarasota for a meal at the famous Columbia Restaurant. I’d get a cup of their incredible Spanish Bean soup and half of a Cuban...