It’s like a spinach salad with bacon dressing, but with pasta.

Garlic Scape Pesto

Mix your favorite pesto into Turkey Burgers topped with sweet grilled onions.

This a perfect weekday meal with a sizzling steak.

Zesty roasted pepper and white bean spread with homemade pita chips.

Apple paste – fantastic with sharp cheese.

Wokking up Spicy Yard-Long Beans!

A deliciously rich and decadent chocolate Tia Maria cake, inspired by Joy the baker…and yes, that is chocolate ganache!

Delicately spicy eggnog cupcakes with cranberry filling, topped with whipped cream and sprinkled with nutmeg.

Honey-Orange Ricotta Cheesecake.
Rich, creamy, and decadent!

White Chocolate Martini

Tofu & Pineapple Thai Yellow Curry, little sunshine in my bowl

A Lent-friendly dish that’s from the Greek island of Mykonos…ripe tomatoes, lots of garlic, olive oil and a barley rusk bread crumb.

Fresh and Easy Spinach Pasta you can make at home! Served with Walnut Pesto.

An alternative potato salad perfect for grilling weather…grilled sweet potatoes in a smoky lime vinaigrette.

Toasted Almond Dacquoise. perfect layers to a summer torte.

Toasted ravioli cupcakes. Don’t worry, they don’t contain meat.

chilly outside… chili inside… totally satisfying and will keep the chills away!

Stuffed peppers with mozzarella cheese and cherry peppers – a great alternative to the more traditional meat-filled peppers

Classic Austrian Poppy Seed Strudel: moist, fluffy and not too sweet

Sticky Toffee Pudding. Warm cakey goodness, creamy toffee sauce and a little kahlúa kick. Do you need any more convincing?

For the April 2009 challenge, a frangelico hazelnut vegan cheesecake.