Persian Sweet Potato Stew

It feels so good to be cooking again. Making dinners and baking breads really does serve to center me. Especially when I get to use foods I grew. Even though I am planning and preparing my garden for this season, I still have lots of sweet potatoes that I harvested in the fall. This stew…

Minestrone for an Autumn Day

I went to one of our local farm stores and found this… It’s a crookneck squash, and it is gigantic! It is about the size of 3 or 4 butternut squashes! So you will likely be seeing this, or parts of it, a few times over the next few weeks. This recipe used just 1/2 of…

Lemon-roasted Jerusalem Artichokes and Potatoes

Although I did a lot of cooking and baking for our Passover Seder, only one ingredient came from my garden (other than my dried herbs) –  my good ole Jerusalem artichokes. Roasted with some baby yukon potatoes and lemon, it made a really tasty side dish. I decided to go with roasted vegetables since I already was making…

Patatas Bravas

Emily was home today, so we had a “Remember Barcelona” day. We had Barcelona Hot Chocolate with the Spanish chocolate I brought home.  It is made with milk and coffee and flavored with orange peel.  Not too sweet and oh so delicious! Here’s Arielle enjoying some back in Barcelona. For dinner we made some Patatas…