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Wondering what might be available when shopping at the spring farmers' market? This guide will let you know what fresh fruit, vegetables, and plants you will see in the spring. Also find ingredient spotlights, recipes, and more!

A Guide to the Spring Farmers’ Market

For a fun variation on the classic Moscow mule, try a blood orange Moscow mule! Ginger beer, lime, and vodka are mixed with blood orange juice and pomegranate in this tasty cocktail.

Blood Orange Moscow Mule

Make the most of fresh spring fruit with homemade rhubarb and strawberry hand pies! These mini, individual pastries are fun to make and to eat. Can be prepared ahead and frozen or made and served immediately. Great with vanilla ice cream!

Fresh and Yummy Mini Rhubarb Strawberry Hand Pies

Freekeh is an earthy grain with a complex flavor which you should try! And this vegan freekeh salad buddha bowl with baby kale, radicchio, avocado, and mint is great way to add some freekeh to your diet.

Kale, Radicchio and Freekeh Salad Buddha Bowl

Cold soups for summer dinners and appetizers are so refreshing! I have here four healthy cold soups packed full of vegetables like corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, and peas. Each perfect to make ahead and to make the most of spring and summer bounty.

Four Cold Soups for Summer

Want some ideas for fresh strawberry desserts? I have six amazing recipes from simple to elegant and all are packed full of sweet, juicy strawberries. Berry crumble pie, rustic strawberry tart, shortcake with a twist, easy strawberry dip and more!

Fresh Strawberry Desserts for Spring

Put down the bottled salad dressing and jazz up your salads with a fresh raspberry balsamic vinaigrette! It's simple to make. Just a few minutes and a blender and you'll have a thick, sweet and spicy dressing for salads, chicken, salmon, and more.

Fresh Raspberry Balsamic Vinaigrette

Greek orzo salad with peas, tomatoes, and feta is one of my favorite Mediterranean dishes to bring to potlucks, bbqs, and summer cookouts. It's a simple recipe, but always a hit.

Greek Orzo Salad with Feta and Peas

A simple pan searing in a cast iron pan gives my salmon with green sauce golden brown crispy skin worthy of a restaurant dinner! Add in an easy and vibrant sauce full of basil and parsley and you have a delicious and healthy weeknight meal.

Crispy Seared Salmon with Green Sauce

For a delicious and fork-tender oven braised beef brisket, cook it low and slow in red wine and onions. Then let it cool for easy slicing and puree the sauce for a thick and rich onion gravy. Great holiday roast!

Braised Beef Brisket with Rich Onion Gravy

The tropical flavors of pineapple, orange, and coconut and the rosy, sunset color of this pineapple rum punch will take you right to a Caribbean beach. You can make it by glass or in a pitcher for a crowd!

Coconut, Orange, and Pineapple Rum Punch

Homemade Meyer lemon raspberry bars are great twist on classic lemon bars! Start with a simple flaky and buttery shortbread crust and then top that with a thick and rich layer of lemon and raspberry curd. Tart, amazing, and a beautiful reddish-orange color.

Meyer Lemon Raspberry Bars

Chicken stifado is a delicious and healthy Greek stew which cooks in 30 minutes, making it easy comfort food for a weeknight. In this stew chicken thighs are marinated in a red and herb marinade then browned and cooked together with artichokes, tomatoes, and plenty of onions. Great over orzo, mashed potatoes, or noodles.

Greek Chicken Stifado (Stew)

Grab a bottle of Burgundy or Pinot Noir because it's time to make some classic French comfort food! My recipe for slow cooker beef burgundy is wonderful to come home to after a long winter's day - tender beef, bacon, lots of onions, and carrots all in a rich red wine sauce.

Slow Cooker Beef Burgundy Stew

Looking for the best potato salad? Then you need to try my potato salad with olives and capers all tossed together with a homemade mayonnaise. Lemony, creamy, buttery, and tangy!

Potato Salad with Olives and Capers

Arugula adds brightness and a peppery flavor to this simple and healthy recipe for Italian braised white beans with garlic and tomatoes. It's a satisfying side dish for all sorts of meals, especially grilled or seared lamb chops or steak.

Braised White Beans with Garlic and Arugula

Thick cut cod is pan seared in a mixture of olive oil and butter to produce a golden brown crust and then served with a lemon, parsley, and caper sauce to make a simple and healthy weeknight meal.

Pan Seared Cod with a Caper, Parsley and Lemon Sauce

Greek pasta with shrimp, feta, olives is a great and easy skillet dinner full of tender shrimp, salty feta and olives, a good glug of olive oil, and plenty of garlic. And you get to flambe! What could be better?

Greek Pasta with Shrimp, Feta, and Olives

In this churro inspired dessert, sour cream cinnamon bundt cake is swirled with chocolate for a moist and tender marble cake. Wonderful as is, but even better when topped with a brown butter cinnamon icing!

Churro Inspired Chocolate Cinnamon Bundt Cake

Looking for a great fall and winter side? My recipe for butternut squash and Swiss chard is quick, healthy, and full of caramelized cubes of winter squash and tender chopped chard. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #butternutsquash #sidedish #wintersquash #swisschard #healthyrecipes

Easy Sauteed Butternut Squash with Swiss Chard

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Hello, I’m Annemarie

Welcome to my kitchen! I’m a Italian-American girl who loves fresh foods, local ingredients, and all sorts of comfort foods. Here you will find Mediterranean flavors and recipes from a New England perspective.

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Winter Recipes

This Brussels sprouts spotlight tells you everything you wanted to know about Brussels sprouts. How to cook them, where they come from, how they taste, and more! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Ingredient Spotlight – All About Brussels Sprouts

Comfort food at its best! Roasted red pepper and tomato soup is easy, creamy, and perfect for weeknight dinner or for company. Great with fried croutons, slices of crusty bread, or grilled cheese. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #souprecipes #tomatosoup #tomatoes #redpeppers #comfortfood

Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup

Warm White Bean, Bacon, and Spinach Salad - This is a hearty salad of baby spinach, warm white beans and a little bit of bacon which is perfect for chilly nights, all dressed in a sherry and shallot vinaigrette. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Warm White Bean, Bacon, and Spinach Salad

Pecan Snowball Cookies - These Pecan Snowball Cookies are melt-in-your-mouth tender, filled with ground and chopped pecans, and covered in powdered sugar. Whether you call them Snowballs or Russian Tea Cakes or Italian Wedding Cookies, it's not Christmas without them. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Pecan Snowball Cookies

Creamy Polenta Topped with Brussels Sprouts and Pancetta - Pan roasted brussel sprouts, crispy pancetta, and creamy, cheesy polenta all in one bowl? That's the definition of yummy. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Brussels Sprouts and Pancetta Over Polenta

Acorn Squash Stuffed with Chorizo Sausage - Acorn squash is roasted and then filled with a delicious and flavorful mixture of chorizo, cannellini beans, and manchego to make a great, easy dinner. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Acorn Squash Stuffed with Chorizo Sausage

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Throw out everything you know about making pie crust to make the best easy flaky pie crust you've ever made. Simple, all butter, no fail! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Easy Flaky Pie Crust Recipe

Love making artisan bread but want it to be quick and easy? This rosemary no knead bread bakes up like a dream in your dutch oven and only takes a few minutes of work. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Olive Oil and Rosemary No Knead Bread

Grilled Butterflied Leg of Lamb - Butterflied lamb is rubbed overnight with a flavorful herb and garlic mixture and then quickly grilled for a perfect dinner. It takes just 15 minutes to bring this roast to a beautifully seared outside and medium rare inside. Great for Easter dinner or for any cookout get-together. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Grilled Butterflied Leg of Lamb with a Herb Rub

Rich & Complex Traditional Bolognese Sauce - A long, slow simmer builds layers of flavor and makes this Bolognese sauce so rich and complex! Meaty, silky, and hearty. This is a sauce worth having on your stove all day long. Make some for today and freeze some for tomorrow. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Rich & Complex Traditional Bolognese Sauce

Chocolate Chip Butterscotch Bars - These one bowl bars have all the comfort of an old-fashioned butterscotch bar and the added pleasure of gooey chocolate chips in every bite. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Chocolate Chip Butterscotch Bars

Italian comfort food of tomato, braised sausage, and pork shoulder ragu simmering on the stove is the perfect way to spend a chilly day. This pork ragu is easily doubled and freezes well. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Italian Braised Pork Shoulder Ragu

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