Delaware Girl Eats

Layered Salad with Green Goddess Dressing #SundaySupper

Layered salads make spectacular potluck dishes For over forty years the dinner bell has rung at our Hollywood Beach community for monthly summer potlucks. As dinner is prepared some lounge on the deck of our community Clubhouse, gazing at sailboats passing on the nearby Elk River. Others set up tables and assemble the potluck buffet. Neighbors gather until the bell is rung and then everyone surges inside, vying for a bite of their favorite potluck dishes like corn pudding or crab salad. The noise level builds as serving dishes are emptied and eventually, having eaten their fill, folks spill back... Read more →

Strawberry-Rhubarb Mini Tarts

Mini tarts combine the best of spring strawberries with their luscious partner, rhubarb. When I think of spring desserts, nothing is as heavenly as pairing strawberry and rhubarb. Strawberries are lusciously sweet and rhubarb lends a tart and bracing flavor to any dish where they are combined with other fruit. Since National Strawberry month is coming to an end, I chose to celebrate these bright juicy berries while they are still in season at local farmers markets. Since it’s been a very cold and rainy month of May here in Delaware I hope the dessert that follows will inspire thoughts... Read more →

Midwest Beef & Beans Chili

Beans Make Flavorful Companions to Beef in Midwest Chili Growing up in Ohio, we considered ourselves Midwesterners, even though many purists debate whether Ohio really is part of that geography. Nevertheless, while reading the Cook the Books selection for this month, “Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good”, I recognized many stories of Midwest life from my growing-up days. Even though the memoir takes place on a farm in Michigan rather than the suburbs of Northeast Ohio where I lived, the book by Kathleen Flinn perfectly catches the stories of that era of self-reliant life. For instance, to supply the kitchen... Read more →