Creamy Beet Salad
With earthy chopped beats, tart sour cream and minced red onion, this Creamy Beet Salad is tasty, easy and pretty enough for any spring buffet. Beets are technically a fall…
Read moreOne Pan Roasted Roots & Sausage
This recipe, for One Pan Roasted Roots & Sausage, is based on one from a recent Better Homes and Gardens magazine. I like the fact that they get it. It’s…
Read moreQuick Red Flannel Hash
Eating local is in. At least during the summer. Winter can be another story… it probably calls for a lot more root vegetables than most people are comfortable with. But…
Read moreGoodbye Ruby Smoothie
I discovered today’s smoothie in my new Coconut Cookbook. The recipe seemed perfect–simple and healthful–and it even used leftover local foods from last summer. But I did have one concern.…
Read moreChicken Divan Goes Local
Life is a balancing act. Sometime you cook a super healthy dinner from scratch using all local ingredients. Other times you open a couple cans of Cream of Chicken soup.…
Read moreGarlic Roasted Beets
Did you hear the announcement that we (in the northern hemisphere) are halfway through meteorological winter? It sure made me feel better! Until I started to worry about the piles…
Read moreRoasted Vegetable Salad with Macadamia Nut Vinaigrette
Fall can be beautiful. Brilliant leaves, colorful pumpkins, fire-lit nights. But after four days straight of rain, my fall is downright dreary. So I am making a lunch that brings…
Read morePeter Piper Baked a Peck of Pickled Pizza
Yes… you read that right. Pickled Pizza. Well okay, the pizza itself isn’t picked but it is topped with… pickled beets. And tangy goat feta. And fresh thyme. Absolutely amazing!…
Read moreGoat Cheese and Roasted Vegetable Galette
The past few months have been expensive: new roof, car repairs, college visits… I started out winter determined to eat up everything from last year’s CSA, but after the latest…
Read moreAnd the Late Bird Gets… (shhh), Beet Cake
The last time I wrote about finishing my CSA beets, I got an interesting response from my college-aged daughter. Safely ensconced at an out-of-state college, she remarked: I look forward…
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