We just returned from a week long family holiday and were greeted by not one but two bags of fresh organic produce from our new neighbours who just happen to be organic farmers! In it I found two different kids of kale, chard, cucumbers, rutabegas, onions and a head of leaf lettuce. I guess we’ll [...]
I have to be honest. I did not make this salad. It is my mom’s recipe. Actually, it’s a recipe from my high school grad class’s recipe book. But since my mom is at the root of my foodie ways, it’s only fair that she deserves a shout out, no? My kids LOVE beans, and [...]
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It’s been just over a week in our new house and I am just now starting to feel creative enough to cook again. When I made the following recipe last week all I had in mind was to top some hot pasta with butter and cheese. But then I saw a jar of sun dried [...]
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The other day I looked in my cupboards and found a sad sight. I was down to the bare minimum in groceries since we are only days away from our big move. So I took two of the ingredients I had on hand (I’d just soaked and cooked some chickpeas and had a handful of [...]
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I’m on a Mollie Katzen kick this week. I saw her cookbook The Vegetable Dishes I Can’t Live Without at our library and was compelled to check it out. If Mollie Katzen can’t live without these recipes then who am I kidding? I’m obviously missing out on something. No I didn’t get the recipe name [...]
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I have to apologize for anyone who notices, but this is a re-post. My goal to make new dishes this week completely failed. It’s been one of those eat-what-comes-easy kind of weeks. What with anticipating my last day of doing daycare, trying to sell our house and packing boxes, I just couldn’t get organized with [...]
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This is a modified recipe from Mollie Katzen’s Moosewood Cookbook that I have made a couple of times to rave reviews. From everyone but my husband, that is. He calls cauliflower “the devil’s vegetable.” Truly. He said so just tonight. Then we all went around naming our favorite “evil vegetable.” Mine is parsnip, our friend’s [...]
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