Tag Archives: CSA
Arugula Pesto Pizza
For the bday dinner, we talked about going out for pizza, but when I found out they weren’t going to be available until 9 or 9:30 pm, I decided to make pizzas instead. This one was the favorite. The Crust … Continue reading
Chik’n & Jungle Garden Veggie Saltimbocca
Our garden is going gangbusters. When I went the other day, the tomato plants were out of control, as was the basil and parsley. And there were 4 beautiful long eggplants. So I needed to make something with this stuff. … Continue reading
Superbowl Sunday Series
Unlike last year, this year’s superbowl foods edition (my first of 2014…whoops, January was a wee bit busy), isn’t actually superbowly/footbally food. As my husband said in his cute & adoring facebook page, “While I was at a bar watching … Continue reading
Kale “ceasar” salad
This was an experiment on my husband and neighbors. Hubby bought a rather LARGE bag of kale. What to do with it? I made spinach with it (using the kale instead of spinach), I made baked kale, braised kale…and this. … Continue reading
Roasted Butternut Squash and Carrots with tahini-sriracha sauce
This recipe is somewhat random…and yet it somehow works. I thought it was pretty tasty. More carrots were bought this week. Along with a butternuts squash and some golden beets….necessitating more roasting. The idea for this came from a recipe … Continue reading
Lentil Quinoa Veggie Burgers
Last week the Washington Post had some great veggie recipes…this is a modification of one of them the BGR veggie burger. BGR makes a pretty good veggie burger. I modified the recipe because I wanted to make it a tad … Continue reading
Spicy Sweet Carrots
No snow around here (booh), but a snow day…a good time to post a backlog of recipes! My husband brought a bunch of beautiful multicolored carrots home on Sunday…so it was time to find some good things to do with … Continue reading
Fatoosh Salad
Here’s an easy twist on a Mediterranean Fatoosh Salad. We didn’t have some of the ingredients that the recipe called for, but had some other things laying around….so I reinvented the recipe. Ingredients 1 Green Onion 1 yellow bell pepper … Continue reading
Polenta with Chard, sun dried tomatoes, and caremelized onions
This is the last of my cooking for tonight (I cook in bursts–I actually made one more dish too, daal makhni). I saw a vegetarian times recipe for grits with kale and caramelized onions. I took that and played with … Continue reading
Stuffed Sweet Potato Skins (another superbowl dish)
The last of last night’s superbowl dishes was: Stuffed sweet potato skins. A melding of 2 different recipes that is a little time consuming but rather tasty. Ingredients 2 sweet potatoes 1 link of “Field Roast” mexican chipotle fake sausage, … Continue reading
Wholegrain Cranberry Fig Muffins
I saw a tasty recipe for fig cornmeal muffins in the New York Times and I tinkered with it. 1 cup figs 1/2 cup cranberries (mine happen to be frozen–bought too many fresh cranberries at thanksgiving, but they are coming … Continue reading
Mushroom Lentil Burgers and Mango lentils
Mango lentils, you ask? It’s a wee bit sweet, but our verdict was that it was tasty. We then turned that into a veggie burger. (photo coming later when we make this again) Part 1: Mango lentils Ingredients 1/2 c … Continue reading
Superbowl “Buffalo” Cauliflower
Why Buffalo cauliflower, you ask? We saw the recipe and were curious. And it turned out to be tasty!Ingredients 1 head of cauliflower broken into florets 1/8 cup Sriracha (less if you wish) 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar 1/8 cup water … Continue reading
Superbowl inspired Jalapeno Soft Pretzels
Inspiration and base recipe from Smitten Kitchen…with a few little tweaks. We weren’t sure how these would turn out….but the verdict was that they are awesome. There are only 2 left on the plate! Ingredients (note: one adaptation was to halve … Continue reading
Wholegrain berry pancakes with Bananas Foster toping
I love brunch and so I try new recipes each Saturday (or sometimes go back to old standards). Last Saturday, I tried out a new recipe on my husband, one that appears successful! Ingredients for the pancakes 1/3 c oat … Continue reading
New Years Day Wholegrain Biscuits
It’s been a long fallow period, but starting now , I will begin posting more regularly 🙂 We returned from a 3 week trip to India on New Years Eve. So when we woke up on New Years Day hungry … Continue reading
Thanksgiving Pizza (pre-thanksgiving experiment #2)
What does one do with a large cooked squash and a mound of veggies and stuffing? A pizza, duh! At this point, you might be thinking “huh?” but really, that’s what came to mind as I was on my way … Continue reading
Recipes for the husband to use while I’m away….
I’m off on a quick jaunt to India for work…and my husband wondered what he possibly would do with the ingredients in our fridge. Here’s a post for him: What we’ve got: 2 Squashes 4 green peppers a bag of … Continue reading
Tomatillo Gazpacho
It’s been really hot, so…cold soup sounded good. We had some tomatoes and some tomatillos, several cucumbers and green peppers from our farm box…and voila…gazpacho! ♠ equipment: a food processor blender ♣ ingredients 4 tomatillos, peeled and quartered 1/4-1/2 cup … Continue reading
Beet Pate
After we received 2 bunches of beets in last week’s box, we were left wondering…”what the heck do we do with these?” I’ll admit, I don’t love a lot of beet dishes. But when I looked up recipes for soups, … Continue reading
A Happy Veggie Foodie 