Pasta with Roasted Winter Vegetables

Sweet potatoes, butternut squash, Brussels sprouts, kale – who says the winter is boring?  I  still have sweet potatoes and butternut squash from the garden (and garlic, of course).  I am always surprised by how long they keep, two years ago, I had so many butternut squash, we were still eating them the following May!…

Creamy Mushroom Fettuccini

In Delaware, one of our great year-round local treats are mushrooms.  Kennet Square, PA is the mushroom capital of the U.S.; with it so close, we get great fresh mushrooms.  Still not quite as good as when I grew my own, but I don’t know when I will get the chance to do that again….

Winter Vegetable Stew

I had a winter squash plant growing in my compost pile.  I think they were from the Kabocha squash, they were the right shape, but they never changed from green.  Some aged and wilted before ever turning orange, so I rescued the biggest, healthiest looking one and figured I would see what would happen when…

Spaghetti Squash with Chickpeas, Sauteed Greens, Feta and Couscous

I love volunteers in my garden!  In this case I mean plant volunteers, but human volunteers are always welcome! The volunteer I am referring to was a spaghetti squash.  I only planted butternut squash this year, but a variety of squashes grew in both the garden and the compost pile, babies from last years crop….

Sweet Potato Baked Ziti

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….

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…

Savory Caprese Bread

Fresh basil from the garden, sun-dried tomatoes from last year’s harvest, olive oil from the sun-dried tomatoes, and fresh mozzarella – sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Now put them all in a bread…oh my! I doubled the recipe to make one to eat and one to share.  That worked very well. This bread can be a…

Sweet Potato Latkes

For anyone who has not had enough sweet potato casserole, here are some latkes that are perfect for you. These sweet potato latkes are less savory than most of the latkes I make, so they are best as a snack or side dish.  We had them with applesauce, but I was really tempted to melt some…

Hanukkah Latkes

It’s Hanukkah – time for latkes! Potato latkes, Spinach latkes, Noodle latkes we love latkes! The perfect one for this Thanksgivnukkah year is Mashed Potato Latkes – yummy with some leftover cranberry sauce. There are the traditional Potato Latkes, which we only eat with applesauce or as a dinner with a fried egg… One of my…