Easy Pea Hummus

Happy New Year! For those who want the good luck of peas and greens, I have the perfect appetizer for starting off 2024. This recipe only needs a food processor and about 5 minutes of your time. I used thawed frozen English peas from our summer garden. You can use commercially frozen or fresh from…

Boiled Custard

What would Christmas be without boiled custard? And while the supermarket has had it on the shelves for weeks, there is nothing like homemade. It’s easier than you think, especially with an extra set of helping hands! This recipe cooks the eggs first, then cools them. making it safe and delicious for everyone! Add as…

Gift Books

Well it’s here … time to get your holiday shopping done unless you are an early bird and have it finished. For book worms, I have two stellar suggestions. The first one is for the champagne lovers, you simply can’t beat the truly complete, beautiful coffee table (and reading!) book by Richard Juhlin. Aptly titled…

Turkey Pot Pie

It’s next week … Thanksgiving has nearly come and you need to be ready for the aftermath. So here is another great use of extra turkey, carrots, onions, peas and celery. It’s as soothing as you imagine it to be! Happy Thanksgiving! Turkey Pot Pie Yield: 6 servings 4 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 sweet onion,…

Merry Christmas

May your stockings be filled with many blessings this holiday season. Merry Christmas from all of us here at Haute Flavor!

Italian Wedding Cookies

The time is drawing near for cookies to be made in preparation of Christmas Eve. What goes better with a cold glass of milk for Santa than these tried and true favorites that look like miniature snowballs? The key is to refrigerate the dough before rolling into balls, then rolling them after baking twice ……

Lemonade

Who doesn’t love a special cocktail during the holidays? We certainly do and this one is going to be made well through the New Year. It uses Smoked Simple Syrup made by Traeger, which is available at most Ace Hardware stores as well as online. Cheers! Tennessee Smoked & Spiked Lemonade Yield: 3-4 servings 6…

Pork Shoulder BBQ

Unless you have time to burn, preparing a pork shoulder for the weekend holiday will be overwhelming. But the slow cooker can make easy work of this in a snap. It doesn’t heat up your kitchen, can be pulled together in minutes, then turned on low overnight to have lunch ready for your celebration the…