Welcome to my world of experimenting with sweet potatoes. Stews, ravioli, latkes, casseroles, cassoulets…why not baked ziti? The sweet potatoes added a nice bright flavor to the ricotta cheese. I could have eaten the cheese mixture by itself – really, taste it when you mix the sweet potatoes and cheese, you’ll see what I mean….
Category: Main Dish
Fall Harvest Cassoulet
Emily was home after a food-filled Thanksgiving with her grandparents. She was complaining about feeling stuffed and gaining weight, so I wanted to make a healthy, tasty vegetarian dinner using some of the sweet potatoes from my garden to get her off to a good start this month. Aside from the sweet potatoes, I had…
Turkey – All-Natural Free-Range
I am very lucky to have a wonderful free-range turkey farm less than 10 miles from my house – TA Farms. It has taken some adjustment to cooking these birds, and I am still figuring out the best approach. Last year I tried a form of dry brining suggested Ina Garten in her “Accidental Turkey”. …
Cavatappi with Lemony Brussels Sprouts and Lima Beans
Brussels sprouts and lima beans, the two vegetables that make most of America groan and kids run to hide. We are so accustomed to steamed, over-cooked, stinky, frozen Brussels sprouts and dried or frozen lima beans cooked until they are bland and mushy. But once you have tasted these vegetable prepared fresh, in manners that…
Spicy Southwestern Fish Bowl
This is the time of year when I use the “lasts” in my garden. This “last” is my sweet peppers. I still have poblano and jalapeno waiting to be used, but these were the last of the sweet peppers I harvested before the frosts. This recipe is from PinchofYum.com, the only change I made was…
Rigatoni with Roasted Broccoli Rabe, Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Grape Tomatoes & Walnuts
Tonight was fun. I have never cooked broccoli rabe before, but I have wanted to for a while, so I bought some at the market. I started off knowing that I wanted to make a pasta dish with roasted broccoli rabe. I also wanted to use my sun-dried tomatoes. Of course there would be garlic….
Apricot-Onion Chicken
There are some recipes that stay with you for a very long time. Tonight’s dinner was a chicken dish that a friend’s mother had made when I was in my teens. I was a very picky eater then, or perhaps I should say, INCREDIBLY picky eater. Getting me to even taste a new food was…
Flatbread Pizza from the Garden
Sometimes my plans for dinner get changed at the last minute. While I had planned to make a roasted brussels sprouts pasta dish tonight, Cam (who has been sick and barely eating) begged for pizza. I realized that I had some flatbread in the freezer, so, instead of bringing in pizza, we had individual flatbread pizzas…
Pasta with Pan-Seared Cauliflower, Broccoli, Cabbage and Tomato
Ah, fall, time again for broccoli and cauliflower – two of my favorite vegetables. I did not get a chance to plant them in August, but there are plenty of locally grown broccoli and cauliflower to be found. When you have nice, fresh vegetables, sometimes the best thing to do is a simple pan-sear with…
Butternut Squash Stew with Couscous
A butternut squash grown in the garden is as different from one you get in the store as a homegrown heirloom tomato is from one bought at the supermarket. This is a fact that I was quite surprised to discover. So, I celebrate my butternut squash by making dishes where the squash is the star….
Andrea's Garden Cooking 