The Garden, Plan B After getting all my early seeds in last month, we had the crazy cold weather, and as of Monday, only the spinach had sprouted. So I hit Clark Seeds, just up the road, and bought some sprouted lettuce, collards, broccoli, cauliflower and celery (I love watching celery grow). I then hit…
Category: Pasta
Mario Batali’s Pasta Pancakes aka a Great Way to Use Leftover Pasta!
I love Mario Batali! And I love the gift he has given me with this recipe. We always have leftover pasta and some just don’t taste that great simply warmed back up. With this recipe, I can turn leftover pasta into, basically, pasta latkes! I had previously only done this with pasta that had an…
Tuna Tomato Cream Sauce with Pasta
Training Update: I ended my first week of training by running a 5K race with my daughter, Arielle. I think we were both pleasantly surprised when we each placed 6th in our age groups (out of 40+ in each)! It was a lot of fun to run the race, 5K is a fun racing distance….
Lemon Broccoli Pasta
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…
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…
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…
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…
Pasta Sauce with Dried Mushrooms and Red Wine
I still have a freezer full of basic tomato sauce just waiting to be played with and added to. I wanted to make a full-bodied sauce, so I decided to add some of my dried mushrooms and red wine. It came out a little bitter, but adding a little sugar did the trick and it became luxurious….
Food Challenge – Jerusalem Artichokes, Broccoli & Roasted Tomato Linguine
Here is the second dish from Farmer Kim’s food challenge – Jerusalem Artichokes, Broccoli & Roasted Tomato Linguine. Jerusalem artichokes are really good roasted, but I wanted to try pan searing them. I thought that just Jerusalem artichokes and pasta would be boring. So, I went out to the garden where there were some late…
Corn and Poblano Lasagna
In the freezer now is tomato sauce, corn, pesto, tomatoes, turkey stock and various fruits I froze in the summer. It is time to defrost some frozen corn for this dish by Marcela Valladolid. Simply put, it is amazing. It was funny, no one was really excited about this before I made it, but once…
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