Recipes by Season

We will add our posted recipes to this index periodically. Watch the list grow!   

All LunaCafe recipes (unless otherwise noted) are the original creations of Susan S. Bradley and are copyright protected. We appreciate your interest. Please request permission to distribute or publish Susan’s creative work. Thank you!

Fresh Primers

• Fresh Primer: Apples
• Fresh Primer: Winter Squash
• Fresh Primer: Lentils
• Fresh Primer: Blueberries
• Fresh Primer: Strawberries  
• Fresh Primer: Rhubarb
• Fresh Primer: Cherries

Farmers Markets

• Northwest Fresh: April 2009
• Northwest Fresh: Portland Farmers Market Spring 2009
• University District Farmers Market August 2008 

Autumn Leaves (Fall)

• Fresh Corn & Chipotle Soup with Prawn, Avocado, & Lime Escabeche  
• Curried Sweetpotato, Ginger, & Coconut Bisque   
• Indian Summer Tomato, Orange & Sweet Onion Salad   
• Spanish Broccoli & Prawn Salad   
• Prawn & Strawberry Salad with Fresh Herb Panna Cotta  
• Spicy Eggplant Tomato Sauce   
• Sauté of Chicken with Caramelized Apples & Toasted Hazelnuts   
• Hazelnut Honey Toffee Tart with Cranberry Variation   
• Cranberry Orange Yogurt Pecan Bread   
• Spiced Pumpkin Sour Cream Upside-Down Coffee Cake  
• Apple Cranberry Deep Dish Pie with Toasted Walnut Streusel   
• Luscious Candied Lemon Sage Tea Cake  
• Candied Lemon Peel   
• Spiced Apple Cider Caramel Sauce   
• Mulled Apple Cider with Warm Winter Spices, Cayenne & Hibiscus   

Let It Snow (Winter)

• MauiJim’s Cottage Cheese Pancakes
• Aunt Elfred’s New Year’s Eve Corn Bread  
• The Best Damned Hash
• Smokey Chipotle Meatloaf
• Who’s Afraid of Mashed Potatoes?
• Italian Bolognese Sauce (Ragù)
• New Year’s Day Black Bean Ancho Chili  
• Tis the Season for Hot Buttered Rum
• A Gift of Drinking Chocolate

Spring Fever  (Spring)

• Northwest Early Spring Farro & Lentil Salad
• Basic Little Potato & Five Onion Soup
• Curried Tomato & Red Lentil Soup
• Roasted Garlic & Sunchoke Soup with Rosemary Hazelnut Pesto & Goat Cheese Crèma
• Spicy Cucumber Gazpacho
• Heirloom Carrot Soup with Lemon Verbena, Spearmint & Garlic Gremolata
• Smoky Spanish Zarzuela with Chorizo & Emmer Farro
• Quintessential Potato Gratin
• Basic Spaetzle, Cheese Spaetzle, Herb Spaetzle & Pumpkin Spaetzle
• Spaetzle, Wild Mushrooms & Broccoli Rabb with Thai Yellow Curry Sauce
• Spinach & Egg Fettuccini with Wild Mushrooms & Pancetta (Straw & Hay)
• Apple Cider-Brined Tenderloin of Pork with Rhubarb Deglazing Sauce
• Metrovino’s Parmesan Pound Cake
• Spring Rhubarb & Apple Crisp with Toasted Hazelnut Streusel  
• Rhubarb Cardamom Lime Muffins  

Summer Sizzle (Summer)

• Roasted Red Bell Pepper Gazpacho
• Cauliflower Gratin with Tillamook Aged Cheddar, Caramelized Onions & Applewood-Smoked Bacon  
• Basic Pesto, Pesto Oil, Rosemary Hazelnut Pesto, Cilantro Ginger Pesto, Herb Garden Pesto, Basil Arugula Pesto, &  Basil Olive Pesto
• Fire-Spiced Chicken with Wild Honey & Lemon Glaze
• Grilled Baby Back Ribs with Garlic-Ginger BBQ Glaze  
• LunaCafe’s Spicy Fried Chicken  
• Fresh Blueberry Lime Sauce
• Fresh Apricot Ginger Peasant Cake
• Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
• Rhubarb Cornmeal Upside-Down Cake  
• Balotin Cherry and Lime Crisp with Toasted Almond Streusel
• Blueberry, Lime & Rose Petal Cheesecake
• LunaCafe’s Triple Lemon Doodles
• Fresh Strawberry-Tomato Dessert Sauce 
• Blueberry Lavender Limeade   
• Blueberry Lemon Verbena Spritzer with Candied Ginger Ice Cream

Silver Moon (Winter Holiday)

• New Years Eve Quartet of Entertaining Spreads
• Curried Seafood Cakes with Fresh Ginger Aioli
• Yakima Valley Artichoke Appetizer
• Caramelized Ancho Chile & Cinnamon Almonds
• Toasted Hazelnut, Honey & Garam Masala Brittle
• Pumpkin Sour Cream Pie with Caramel Walnut Topping
• Hazelnut Honey Toffee Tart with Cranberry Variation   
• Apple Cranberry Deep Dish Pie with Toasted Walnut Streusel   
• Cranberry Orange Yogurt Pecan Bread  
• Panforte di LunaCafe
• Spiced Apple Cider Caramel Sauce   
• Christmas Tea Mulling Spice
• One Hot Mama Drinking Chocolate
• Pumpkin Spice Hot  White Chocolate
• Mulled Apple Cider with Warm Winter Spices, Cayenne & Hibiscus   

Chocolate Moon (February)

• Bittersweet Chocolate & Cabernet Butter Cake
• Bittersweet Chocolate & Montmorency Cherry Morning Love Muffins
• Bittersweet Chocolate & Toasted Walnut Cookies Perfecta Mundo!
• Bittersweet Chocolate Orange French Toast with Orange Caramel Syrup & Toasted Almond Praline
• Burnt Sugar & Rosemary Chocolate Tarts  
• Fried Banana Split with Mexican Chocolate Sauce & Strawberry Lime Salsa
• LunaCafe’s OtherWorldly Silky Fudgy Brownies
• LunaCafe’s Burnt Caramel & Lemon Chevre Brownies
• LunaCafe’s Ultimate Chocolate Pudding
• Luscious White Chocolate and Raspberry Rose Petal Cheesecake
• Mexican Hearts of Fire Cookies  
• Northwest Chocolate Desserts 2008
• One Hot Mama Drinking Chocolate
• Pumpkin Spice Hot  White Chocolate
• Quintessential Bittersweet Chocolate Sauce
• The Wonderful World of Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
• White Chocolate, Cardamom & Coconut Beignet

Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (December)

• The Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies
• Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies: Deck the Halls Collection
• Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies: Starry Night Collection
• Almond Butter Poinsettia Cookies
• Candy Cane Butter Cookies
• Decidedly Lemon Teacakes
• Ellen’s Swedish Pepparkakor
• Green Tea & Rose Spritz
• Lemon Orange Pecan Thumbprint Cookies
• Lemon-Lime Clove Sugar Cookies
• Lily’s Swedish Vanilla Spritz
• Once in a Chocolate-Spice Moon Cookies
• Orange Vanilla Sugar Cookies
• Peppermint Stick Shortbread  
• Toasted Almond Black Cherry Shortbread
• Rosalyn’s Midwinter Night’s Dream Cookies
• Mocha Java Hazelnut Cookies
• Christmas in Provence Cookies
• Merry Maraschino Cherry Cookies
• Comfort & Joy Spice Cookies
• Sweet Parmesan Almond Cookies
• Cranberry, Pistachio & Candied Ginger Shortbread
• Heavenly Brown Butter, Lavender & Lime Cookies
• Douglas Fir & Orange Blossom Butter Cookies
• Garam Masala & Candied Ginger Cookies
• Brown Butter, Toasted Almond & Toffee Shortbread
• Cornmeal, Black Pepper & Rosemary Butter Cookies

Quintessential Mac & Cheese

• Quintessential Mac & Cheese Roundup 2008
• LunaCafe OtherWorldly Mac & Cheese
• World Famous Green Chile Mac & Cheese   
• Green Chile Crema   
• West 5: Astral Mac & Cheese
• Crave: Shiitake Mac & Cheese

Dining Out

• Eat. Boston. Clio.
• Eat. Seattle. Smith.
• Northwest Chocolate Desserts 2008
• Quintessential Mac & Cheese Roundup 2008
• Arizona Sweet 2009
• Maui Desserts 2008
• West 5: Astral Mac & Cheese  
• Crave: Shiitake Mac & Cheese
• Sweet Briar Farms Pork Chop with Bodacious Corn Hush Puppies

Cookbooks

• The Paley’s Place Cookbook

About Us

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