• Orzo (1 box)
• two heads brocolli
• 1 mango
• 1 bag snow peas
• World Spice Baharat seasoning
• garlic

Cut mango into little pieces and roast. Saute garlic, snow peas and brocolli until they just begin to turn bright. Add orzo, water (per box instructions), and baharat. Bring to boil, then cover and cook for 7 minutes. Add mango, stir, and serve.

I made this up for a party at my house, thinking I had dried cherries. I did not, so I substituted fresh pear and changed up the recipe somewhat.

• 1 bag chocolate chips
• 1/3 c. half and half
• 1/2 stick butter
• 2 bosc pears
• blood orange rind
• vanilla cognac (Navan)
• World Spice Mayan Cocoa Mix (about three tbs)

melt chocolate over low heat with butter. Add half and half and cognac when nearly melted. Zest the blood orange and chop the pear into little squares and add to chocolate. Spoon onto waxed paper and put in freezer for a couple of hours.

To be fair, I got this idea from a very fancy tapas restaurant I went to, but added a few things. Theirs had morels, which I don’t know how to work with yet.

• farro
• marscapone
• shallots
• crimini mushrooms
• garlic

Boil farro for 45 minutes. While that’s happening, saute some minced garlic (about three cloves) and add sliced shallots and mushrooms until mushrooms are nicely shrunken. When farro is finished, add sauted veggies and a little tub of marscapone. It’s an incredibly unique side dish and is incredibly, incredibly good cold the next day.

• 3/4 lb chuck roast from a local butcher
• 1 16oz jar pepperocini
• 1 yellow onion
• 2 (or more) yams
• 5 cloves garlic
• World Spice Madras Curry Mix, about four tbs

Chop onion into large pieces, cut yams in half. Put all ingredients in crock pot, including the pepperocini juice. Turn on low and let sit for 26 hours. All the vegetables will blacken into an unrecognizable mash that, when spread on the meat, is simply the best thing ever. …I’m not joking

Very tangy, incredibly flavorful.

In an online discussion on waffles (as upon buying some candles that smelled just like waffles, it became imperative my housemate and I buy a waffle iron immediately) I was pondering savory waffles and came up with the following idea. Now to start, I used the basic waffle instructions from Joy of Cooking, then added my own mix of savory items.

• 1 3/4 c. flour
• 1 tbs sugar
• 1 tbs baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 c. milk
• 1 stick melted butter
• three eggs
• 1/4 lb shaved Boar’s Head Smoked ham, cut small
• 1/5 lb shaved cave-aged gruyere, cut very small
• 2 tbs rosemary

Combine first set of dry ingredients and whisk. In second bowl, combine milk, eggs, and butter. Whisk the two together, then mix in ham, gruyere, and rosemary

Make waffles and spread some marscapone on top. I served these with peach juice mimosas. ZOMG! Win.