Lazy Avocado & Grapefruit Cocktail
It’s avocado week here at The Back Burner. But I am in a lazy summer mood. Too lazy to think up an avocado cocktail. I’m not even sure I want an avocado cocktail. At least not one with alcohol. So I thought I’d stretch the word cocktail and use it more like the idea of more »
Moroccan Chicken Couscous
The writers for the Back Burner are celebrating all that is “mom” this week. I tossed around different approaches of how to honor my mother in a meaty sort of way. I won’t lie it was a bit challenging. There is not a meaty recipe in my collection that makes me think of mom, so more »
Featured (Farmer) Foodie: Marysol Valle
Everywhere you look, you’ll see details that say Urban Roots is a community farm: an oversized get well card cut from construction paper and taped to a barn door; a random assortment of vegetables dangling on twine from the branches of a peach tree; a stray bottle of water — “Reynesha” scrawled in sharpie on more »
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Apples and Bacon
As we gear up for the largest meal most of us will sit down to this year, food blogs and magazines everywhere are overflowing with decadent Thanksgiving recipes while hosts and hostesses desperately attempt to plan their menus. Although my husband and I will be spending the official holiday down in PA with my parents, more »





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