pear feta tart
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Pear Feta Tart

I’m not much of a sports fan with the exception of enjoying a good hockey game. That’s why if you asked me when the Superbowl is, I wouldn’t be able to tell you. I’d just know it’s sometime in February. The date that I am aware of is the date of the Oscars (which is February 28th this year). Watching the Oscars has always been me and my mom’s thing. We usually make a few different finger foods or snacks, pour ourselves a glass of wine, and comment on red carpet attire and cheer our favorite movies on. Sometimes we haven’t even seen all the movies but cheer for them anyways because our favorite actors or actresses are in them (I mean, anything with Leo deserves an Oscar, right?). So you can understand that my idea of “game day” food is really just “girls’ night excuse to eat and drink” food, because that’s all I’ve ever known. While other people are making hot wings or blending their own salsa, I’m here creating this pear feta tart for my glass of cabernet. Fancy? Not really, because you’ll see how easy it is to whip up in the video below.

holiday cheese board

Holiday Cheese Board with Quince Paste

Remember the quince recipe I shared last week? I had a couple of them leftover and thought about turning them into a jam. In all honesty, though, I have a lot of jam from the abundance of sweet strawberries we experienced here in California, so I’m sort of over jam at this point (but talk to me in a month or two). I was just about to create a galette with them when I got a better idea. I was writing my shopping list for a gathering I was hosting this past weekend, and was scribbling down cheeses when I suddenly remembered reading about quince paste and how wonderful it is with cheese. And so I created this holiday cheese board with quince paste. 

apple chevre flatbread

Apple Chevre Flatbread

This apple chevre flatbread is the epitome of the kind of food I love to eat. For me, a perfect meal is satiating, but light. It looks a bit fancy, but never at the expense of great taste. It seems that a lot of the more modern restaurants these days tend to sacrifice taste for presentation. I recently went to a well-known restaurant near my home, trying to give their lunch menu another try. This restaurant specializes in the kind of plates that are meant to be shared (tapas, if you will) and are made with simple, quality ingredients. In theory, their menu is everything I idealize and try to emulate in my own kitchen.