Problem: You’re having rice for dinner, again. Solution: Jazz up grains with seasonal garlic scapes.
Seasonal Eating
How to Freeze Cherries for Winter
It’s quick and easy to freeze cherries for winter + get a great winter salad recipe for your frozen cherries.
Recipe: Beef and Onion Saute with Rhubarb Gratin
Discover the Savory Side of Rhubarb Accustomed to seeing rhubarb in fruit desserts, it may come as a surprise to learn that it is actually a vegetable. This is good news, however, as it presents a whole raft of additional uses for this exotically red food that is so...
Why We Love Seasonal Eating
Mealtimes that are easier tastier and more fun Seasonal eating gets a lot of press these days. Usually it's in the context of eating locally, since the two go hand in hand. Sometimes it's in the context of saving money, since seasonal produce is less expensive than...
A Boredom-Busting Meal for Mid-Winter
Easy, Fun, a Little Fancy + Vegetarian and Gluten Free So you're bored--with restaurant food (see previous post) as well as your weekly rotation of 5 standard meals. If you can saute and deglaze, two simple Cooking Basics we learn about in Whole Kitchen classes, you...
Superfood Parsley Pesto: Go-To Sauce for Winter Cooking
Yesterday's post talked about parsley's superfood status and why that should come as no surprise since all real foods are good for us. Start getting more of parsley's goodness into your diet with this quick and versatile pesto that tastes great on everything from...
Holiday Dinners: The Salad Strategy
If you care about weight maintenance, holiday dinners are where your resolve gets tested. Assuming there are any healthful options at all, it's most likely a gloppy coleslaw, tray of cold raw vegetables with ranch dressing, or whatever other tasteless nod to...
Officially End of Summer Dishes
Don’t settle for bland vegetables. As JaneSpice.com puts it:
Autumn Eating: Wilted Salad Recipe with Cool Weather Mizuna
A perfect salad to accommodate autumn’s in-between weather and use up the last of summer’s goodies with some of the cooler weather crops now coming in. Find out about mizuna, stir-frying monster cucumbers and how to wilt a salad.
Satisfy Your Primordial Harvest Instinct
I’ve discovered a long-dormant instinct that derives immense satisfaction from even the smallest autumn harvest activity. Why not indulge your harvest instinct? It’s cheap and can even save money. Find lots of ideas for tapping into this kind of completely illogical joy.
What’s Going on in the Winter Garden?
What’s going on under all the leaves, debris and snow? Is the winter garden just a dead zone. . . or a place of active resting?
Want Your Vegetable World in Color or B & W?
Do you remember the movie Pleasantville? The beginning, set in the 50s, was filmed in black and white and everything was, well, pleasant. Mom and Dad and the the two perfect teens, living good, pleasant lives. Then the teens got blasted into the future (in a way...