January is a beautiful month for fresh starts. Many individuals decide to make New Year resolutions, especially around food. And I’m no different. However, this year the main
objective isn’t based on looking a different way, but feeling a different way. 2019 for me is the year of nourishment – of sharing delicious homemade meals with friends, not restricting fun foods, and being in the present to savor the flavors of locally grown and produced foods. Using ingredients that were taken care by the farmers I have gotten to know better over the last eight months to me adds an extra level of enjoyment to cooking and tasting. Food is such a social vehicle, and to add an additional element of community provides me with such joy. So here is to a year of taking in beautiful local food, the community that local food creates, and the memories created and shared over this abundance.
Included below is one of the first recipes I made in 2019 and ate with a few of my best friends. It is a flavor explosion in the best way possible – sweet, savory, salty, and with slight heat. Warning – it’s hard to stop eating them once you start! Best enjoyed with loved ones 🙂