We planted the first seeds this weekend: sugar snap peas, peas, spinach, red and purple carrots, rainbow chard, and lettuce. Now I hope for regular rains to nourish my seeds. The strawberry plants are looking a little worn, perhaps they have played themselves out, we will see how it goes the year. The garlic are…
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Hidden Carrot Baked Ziti
Life with a 3 year old is a challenge – sometimes even I resort to hiding vegetables to get them into my son’s diet. Even with his love of eating things from the garden, he is still a pre-schooler whose food whims change weekly. These days cucumbers are a favorite, but carrots are on his…
Spaghetti Squash with Honey and Feta
This post initially appeared in December as a guest blog on Rantings of an Amateur Chef. I am reposting it here in case you missed it there. In my garden I grew both large and small spaghetti squashes. While the large ones go into main dishes, small spaghetti squash are useful for side dishes when…
Butternut Squash Stuffed Shells with Lemon Sage Browned Butter Sauce
It is that time of year when I am using the “lasts” of my garden. Today it was the last of my butternut squash. Normally, my butternut squash harvest is so large that they last til spring. But the combination of my having fewer butternut squash plants this year (I planted a variety of winter…
Mjeddrah – Lentils, Rice & Onions
I am in Vermont now, cross-county skiing with my daughter. But I want to share this with you, I made it a little while ago… When I was in college, my housemate’s father was Lebanese and she would make a wonderful dish for us – mjeddrah. It was simple – rice, lentils and onions. So…
Roasted Vegetable Scrambled Omelet (Jerusalem Artichokes, Cauliflower & Brussels Sprouts)
I still have more of Farmer Kim’s Jerusalem artichokes, so it is time for another creation. I roasted them with two of my favorite winter veggies – cauliflower and brussels sprouts, then bound them together with eggs and cheddar in a scrambled omelet – yum! Roasted Vegetable Scrambled Omelet (note: the pieces of all three…
Nutella French Toast
Everyone in my family loves french toast, and what better way to start off Valentine’s Day than with in some chocolate…in the form of Nutella French Toast. A friend at the University of Pennsylvania had suggested this to me – make a nutella-challah sandwich and turn it into french toast…I could not resist! Yes, it…
Butternut Squash Bread
As with the rest of my late harvest, many of the butternut squash were attacked by bugs while I was in California in August. But I still ended up with a few squash to play with. Today it is the Squash Bread recipe from Mollie Katzen’s Enchanted Broccoli Forest cookbook. This is one of my go-to fun…
Rotisserie-style Chicken in a Slow Cooker
Who doesn’t like those yummy rotisserie chickens you can buy at the store? (If you eat meat, that is) But, they are loaded with salt and fat, so they are not the healthiest option. But then again, they are so, so good. When I saw the recipe for rotisserie-style chicken in Stephanie O’Dea’s “Make It…
Sweet Potato Ravioli with Brown Butter Sauce
This recipe is an adaptation of another fabulous recipe from Diane Morgan’s Roots cookbook; what an amazingly wonderful surprise this book has been! The sweet potato ravioli is a bit of a “cheat”, you use wonton wrappers instead of making fresh pasta dough for the ravioli. It worked os well, I will no longer hesitate to try…
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