Sauvignon Blanc. Photo: stevesteve8383, Flickr.
This beautiful bottle of 2005 Sauvignon Blanc, captured by Flickr user stevesteve8383, would certainly do the trick ... though we might have to do a little taste test just to make sure.
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A Bottle of White - Feast Your Eyes
This beautiful bottle of 2005 Sauvignon Blanc, captured by Flickr user stevesteve8383, would certainly do the trick ... though we might have to do a little taste test just to make sure.
Creamy Baked Eggs with Tarragon - Feast Your Eyes
Photo: Domesticated Beast, Flickr.
Thanks to blogger the Gouda Life, we're inspired by this oh-so-simple recipe for Baked Eggs with Butter, Cream and Tarragon. Its raw version pictured tells it all: You have but to pour enough cream into a ramekin until the bottom is covered, add one tablespoon butter, one tablespoon tarragon (you may chop it if you care to take the time), two carefully cracked eggs, and salt and pepper to taste. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes, or until the eggs are cooked through and are no longer runny -- aside from the yolk. You'll happily savor this comforting morning pick-me-up. Topping this easy dish with some grated cheese might elevate it even closer to perfection.
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Ginger Juice - Feast Your Eyes
Photo: sweetbeetandgreenbean, Flickr.
Kickstart your day -- and immune system -- with a shot of the stuff by passing diced and peeled pieces of the root through a juicer. If deemed too spicy for more sensitive palates, mix the juice with water, other juices or sweeteners like lemon, sugar or agave.
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Slow-Cooked Salmon with Tarragon and Fennel - Feast Your Eyes
Photo: stickygooeychef, Flickr.
Tenderly cradled atop an aromatic layer of sliced oranges and onions, fennel and tarragon, the fish is baked at a low temperature for half an hour. Unlike the bland color and taste that can result from more traditional cooking methods, this unfussy recipe manages to preserve the vibrant tones of the salmon as well as its shape, while dishing up a luscious product. Plus, with the extra time slow cooking affords you, you can prepare your side or salad -- and even enjoy a glass of wine.
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Butterscotch and Whiskey Bars - Feast Your Eyes
Photo: jwannie, Flickr.
Though we've never been able to choose sides on the vanilla-versus-chocolate debate, blondies as unique as these render the traditional brownie somewhat uninspired.
Frites & Fries' recipe for Butterscotch and Whiskey Bars inventively pairs the dulcet butterscotch with a not-so-subtle dash of whiskey (a quarter cup!), adding a pleasurably harsher nuttiness to what becomes a complex, sweet-savory confection. The grown-up recipe aims to please both those with a penchant for sweets and those with a weakness for whiskey -- and provides an easy, soul-warming wintery treat.
The flexible blondie serves as a vessel to showcase whatever ingredients you favor, from cranberry and white chocolate, to coconut and lime. What are your favorite blondie additions? Share your recommendations in the comments!
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Chocolate Triple Whammy - Feast Your Eyes
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| Chocolate cupcake. Photo: The Feisty Foodie. |
This chocolate-frosted chocolate cupcake was one of a delightfully diverse dozen captured by The Feisty Foodie after she received a box from New York City's Billy's Bakery. Just looking at the chocolate triple whammy -- chocolate frosting on a chocolate cupcake with chocolate sprinkles on top -- is enough to get us through a midweek slump (though a taste would be even better).
[Via The Feisty Foodie]
Beautiful Berries - Feast Your Eyes
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| Photo: The Boastful Baker, Flickr. |
These brimming cartons suggest a sun-kissed summer weekend spent slowly wending through the berry patches, plucking the gems from their shrubs and eventually departing with lips stained red and blue by all the tastes sneaked along the way.
Flickr user The Boastful Baker snapped these beautiful blueberries and ravishing raspberries on a recent trip to the Northwest, and this morning they serve as a happy reminder of weekends past, real or imagined.
[Via Flickr]
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Pizza Party - Feast Your Eyes
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| Grilled eggplant and olive oil pizza. Photo: Smitten Kitchen. |
For example, when Deb from Smitten Kitchen was craving grilled pizza and the weather didn't agree with her plans for dinner al fresco, she still found a way to make it happen, "Weather be damned!" She busted out a cast-iron panini pan, doused the dough with garlicky extra-virgin olive oil, and piled on the grilled eggplant, olives and provolone. The result, reports the cook, was "hearty, smoky and delicious."
So how'd she get those beautiful cheesy bubbles with her indoor "grill?" Well, since she was "grilling" inside anyway, she put it in the oven for a few minutes. They don't teach that in school.
[Via Smitten Kitchen]
Summer in a Bowl - Feast Your Eyes
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| Pasta with zucchini, goat cheese and lemon. Photo: sassyradish, Flickr. |
Adapted from a recipe in the June issue of Bon Appetit, this beautiful bowlful of fresh fettuccine was tossed with a sauce made of green zucchini, yellow summer squash, olive oil, shallots, garlic, goat cheese, lemon and herbes de Provence. It's topped with what appears to be the only thing that could make it more summery than it already is: chiffonade of basil.
As one commenter on the photographer's Flickr page said, "It's possible that you just captured summer in a bowl." Agreed!
[Via Flickr]
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John Hughes '16 Candles' Tribute - Feast Your Eyes
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| 16 candles. Photo: Michael Brunk, NWlens.com |
What's less remarked upon is his fascination with food and the way American culinary rituals define adolescence. There's the lunch scene in the detention hall of "The Breakfast Club," in which Molly Ringwald snottily articulates the concept of "sushi" to an incredulous Judd Nelson and "bad girl" Ally Sheedy demonstrates fantastic Coke can catching skills before creating a sandwich out of Pixy Stix, butter, bread and cereal -- which she proceeds to devour like a raptor.
Then, of course, there's Samantha's forgotten birthday in "16 Candles," which ends with that mesmerizing kiss over the cake.
We're stuck on a loop of John Hughes memories, but this photo of a different 16 candles -- a snapshot taken by a father of his rosy-cheeked son "caught in the glow of his 16th birthday cake" -- caught our eye.
It's a tribute to the maestro that any cake teeming with candles will always make us think of him. So to paraphrase one of his own characters, "May we admire you again today?"
Piquant Pickles - Feast Your Eyes
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| Homemade pickles. Photo: melsands, Flickr |
These pickles, made and taken by Flickr user melsands, were jarred with dill, coriander, allspice, garlic and fennel seeds. While they were probably intended to go on a sandwich, we'd be tempted to pluck each perfectly pickled cucumber chip straight from the jar until all that's left is just enough juice left to pickle another batch.
[Via Flickr]
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Lovely Lamb - Feast Your Eyes
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| Lamb medallions. Photo: Pham Fatale |
Seared, roasted and dolloped with "Dijonnaise" (mustard, lemon juice and creme fraiche) and a sprinkle of crisp garlic chives, these colorful, two-bite-size hors d'oeuvres would make a wonderful dinner alongside a mixed green salad and a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon or Rioja. Pham Fatale's recipe is right on the page, so a reader might -- irrespective of whether her name is Mary -- have a little lamb.
[Via Pham Fatale]
Weak-Kneed for Watermelon
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| Photo: Moryce, Flickr |
This photograph of the ruby-hued fruit seems designed precisely to make the watermelon lover lose track of whatever else she was working on: "Would I eat one slice? Two?"
Even the typically stodgy "The New Food Lover's Companion" seems smitten: "The watermelon is considered less sophisticated than other categories of melon because it lacks flavor complexity and has a watery texture. But there are those who wouldn't trade a slice of watermelon on a hot summer day for anything."
Or -- to paraphase this Very Serious Encyclopedia of Culinary Knowledge -- "Watermelon: It Rules."
Beauteous Basil - Feast Your Eyes
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| Home grown basil. Photo: The Sweet Kitchen |
Luckily, the joy doesn't have to end when summer does. Due to the rainy spring many of us witnessed, gargantuan basil plants lurk all over North America. Clever gardeners like The Sweet Kitchen have preserved Mother Nature's summer fragrance with homemade jarred pesto. That way despite the winter blues inevitably kicking in, a bite of sunshine, captured perfectly in this photo, will remain.
[Via The Sweet Kitchen]
Feast Your Eyes - Mango Coconut Verrine
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| Mango and coconut verrine. Photo: Anitachu, Flickr. |
This layered verrine (from the French "verre," or glass) may look like the work of a prop stylist -- probably tasteless, intended to tempt hapless foodies -- but it is in fact a coconut and mango purée concoction from the prolific Bay Area blogger behind Dessert First. Not smitten yet? That's a chocolate wafer cookie straw. We thought so.
We adore this photo for its Care Bears like innocence (note the espresso cup with hearts) and the dreamy powdered sugar gracing those spare raspberries. Berry season being as fleeting as it is glorious, we appreciate as many reminders to take advantage of it as nature -- and the food blogosphere -- sends our way.
[Via Flickr]
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