Category Archives: Recipes

Like many of you, we’ve been inspired to cook by all the fresh spring produce that is finally coming to market. Here are some of the things we’ve been cooking up at home this week – we hope you’ll be inspired too!

Roasted Asparagus
Combine excellent fresh asparagus with excellent fresh butter, and you don’t need much [...]

In honor of all the BBQs coming up this weekend, here’s the recipe for a little something I threw together for our Memorial Day grill-fest: Bacon Marmalade deviled eggs. Please to enjoy.
Ingredients:

12 eggs
1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons Bacon Marmalade
1 teaspoon spicy brown mustard
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
salt, pepper and smoked paprika to taste

Instructions:
Hard-boil the eggs. This is [...]

It’s a quiet afternoon here at the shop, so I thought I’d share a simple recipe I came up with last night, while my husband was grilling up a storm.
For some mysterious reason, we often have leftover little bits of different kinds of cheese at our house. We’re always looking for ways to use them [...]

We’ve just added a shelf full of pasta and tomatoes for all your last-minute, quick dinnertime needs. In honor of the occasion, we’d like to introduce you to a few of our favorite recipes using dried pasta and other items from the Eastern District shelves….

Spaghetti alla Carbonara (aka What We’re Probably Eating Tonight)
Recipe from Saveur.
This [...]

I was very excited last month when Saveur magazine published the recipe for Al Di La’s malfatti – it’s one of the dishes I MUST order whenever I go there. The malfatti are kind of like ricotta and chard gnocchi in a simple sage/brown butter sauce.
I finally had a chance to test out the recipe [...]