We recently added a 10 month old puppy to our family. He is a Shar pei – Lab mix and, aside from being my son’s new best friend, is my constant companion in the kitchen when I cook. He loves the end pieces of squash, carrots and tomato cores, and lays in wait for anything that…
Category: Vegetarian
Fattoush
There is a middle eastern restaurant near my daughter’s university…Ali Baba in Newark, DE. It is one of my favorite places to eat. They have many delicious dishes, but somehow, whenever I go there I have to order the fattoush. Fattoush is a middle eastern bread salad, and I think I am addicted to it….
Tomato and Watermelon Salad
It is time for one last “summer” salad – Tomatoes and Watermelon. Of course I still have tomatoes in my garden, but I supplemented them with heirloom cherry tomatoes and watermelon from Highland Orchards. Tossing the tomatoes with a balsamic dressing and leaving the addition of the plain watermelons til last kept the salad refreshing. It…
Roasted Parsnips and Carrots
Parsnips in the garden!! Time to start harvesting. Carrots in the garden…all harvested, time to eat them all. Parsnips and carrots…sounds like time to roast some veggies. But not just roast, but add some warm spices….cumin, coriander, and paprika….finish with some lemon juice…yum. Roasted Parsnips and Carrots Adapted from Roasted Parsnips with Cinnamon and…
Hummus and Grilled Zucchini/Pattypan Squash Wrap
I had a friend coming over for lunch and did not have time to go to the store. I promised something healthy. Luckily, I had just enough in the house to make an adaptation of Ellie Krieger’s Hummus and Grilled Vegetable Wrap along with some spiced edamame from the garden. The star of this wrap…
Peach Bread
In case you did not know, southern Delaware is peach country. We grow some tasty peaches. And this year they are particularly good. I have a cookbook from my favorite all-natural farm, Highland Orchards. In it is a recipe for peach bread by Elaine Linton, the farmer’s mother. I made the bread exactly as it…
Linguine with Artichoke & Pattypan Squash
We are down to our last few pattypan squash. I am ready to be done with them. The good thing is that I have found so many interesting ways to cook them, but, enough is enough. So today I planted my fall veggies: broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and kale. I don’t think I could ever…
Three Bean Salad
Yellow beans are growing and growing and growing. Every time we think we have picked them all, we return 2 days later and find more huge ones, that we must have missed last time, or even the last 2 times… I picked up some organic green beans from Tap Root Farm at the farmers market….
Roasted Lima Beans
I was looking for a new way to cook the lima beans from our garden. After doing an internet search, I came upon this recipe from an NPR piece on lima beans from 2007 by D. Cameron Lawrence. The recipe is from chef Bruce Ucán of the Mayan café in Louisville, KY. It is adaptable for…
Spiced Edamame
Every year I try to grow edamame (edible soybeans). The first year I tried, they did fine; but every year since, the plants have been eaten by rabbits right after sprouting. This year, I have 5 very healthy plants loaded with pods. Hurrah! There are enough pods that we can eat edamame as much as…
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