This is my new favorite food for the season, a combination of so many flavors and it gets better every day, marination in your fridge! It is a beautiful salad filled with color that I hoard for myself when possible, eating it bit by bit. I got caught finishing it off last night at bedtime.... Continue Reading →
Easy Eggplant Parmesan
Our garden is producing a few eggplants a week right now and we have more tomatoes and basil than we know what to do with, so I found an easier recipe for Eggplant Parmesan. I spent wayyyyy too much time on a version of it last year, and can have good intentions about making it... Continue Reading →
Review of Sun Basket Food Delivery
I will admit that I kind of turned my nose up to the Hello Fresh's of the world, I cook all the time, I don't need anybody sending me deconstructed meals to prepare when I can buy it locally from the store, right? But then I read about Sun Basket, a California based company... Continue Reading →
Gluten Free Vegetarian Lasagna
We do eat gluten in our house, but a lot of my friends and my kid's friends do not, so I wanted to have a recipe for something we could all enjoy. I found gluten free rice pasta by a company called DeBole's at our store and honestly I cannot tell the difference. I only... Continue Reading →
Baked Breakfast Greens
I found this recipe on Vodka&Biscuits.com and my family loves it so much we have had it several times in the last couple of weeks. It's very flexible, I add more veggies than the recipe calls for, but it works! Baked Breakfast Greens 1/4 c diced onion 4 oz mushrooms (my addition) 2 garlic cloves, minced... Continue Reading →
Southern Sweet Potato Casserole
This is a Thanksgiving staple in our home, but we also have it for Easter with ham every year. It's simple enough, one of the few recipes I got straight from my grandmother. Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! Southern Sweet Potato Casserole 3 c sweet potatoes, cooked, mashed 1 c sugar... Continue Reading →
Roasted Vegetable Grain Bowl
We have 35 people coming over for dinner tonight, so I needed a good, solid lunch today! We had some leftover roasted vegetables and also some orzo in the fridge, so I combined the two and added some cooked farro, chopped pecans and feta and poured a little roasted garlic dressing over the top. The only thing... Continue Reading →
Eggplant Parmesan
I found this recipe in my latest Bon Appetit magazine, looked through the ingredients and determined I only needed to purchase eggplants and went for it! Unfortunately, I didn't read the recipe closely and the whole thing took close to three hours to get to the table. Halfway through the job, I decided it wasn't worth... Continue Reading →
Grilled Sweet Potato and Corn Salad
Found this recipe at my grocery store and it works! Grilled the vegetables alongside some steak and put it together quickly. We decided the leftover should be served as a panzanella - add a handful of spinach and some chunks of grilled bread. Delicious! Grilled Sweet Potato and Corn Salad 1 medium sweet potato, peeled... Continue Reading →
Simple Lunch
Many days I eat a quick pb & j midday but if I take just a few extra minutes I can really treat myself. This is a perfect lunch for me. Grilled every vegetable I could find in the fridge, then mixed in some farro and orzo I had prepared earlier. Those grains take a... Continue Reading →