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….
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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….
Cammy’s Halloween Spice Cookies
My self-proclaimed “Top Chef” is back; Cammy has returned to the kitchen! His first project…Halloween cookies he saw in a book. He then made his father buy the book for him, so his personal cookbook collection is now up to 3. He also likes to get story books that include a recipe related to the…
Black Bean & Butternut Squash Chili
If you are reading this right after I post it, I will have just run my half-marathon in Amsterdam. So, while I am otherwise occupied, I thought I would share a dish I made shortly before I left. This chili used a whole variety of produce from my garden – butternut squash, garlic, poblano peppers,…
Kuku-ye Sabzi (Persian Herb Frittata)
A Kuku is the Persian version of a frittata or omelet. The kuku I make most often is tuna, like the Lemon Pepper Tuna Kuku. But I have been in the mood to experiment with them more., such as with the Eggplant Kuku from last week. SInce I have a garden full of parsley and…
Apple Bread
It is apple time again! One of my official shifts to fall is the change from zucchini bread to apple and pumpkin baked goods. The first treat of this year is Apple Bread. This recipe is from Mollie Katzen’s The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest cookbook. I love this recipe, the bread is moist and not…
Kuku-ye Bademjun (Persian Eggplant Omelet)
I still had eggplants in my fridge from Farmer Kim. I needed to do something with them, I had held them for as long as I would ever want to. My husband wanted more Khoresh Bademjun, but we had already had it twice in 2 weeks, so I was determined to make something else. Time…
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