Category Archives: Recipes

Small Batch Sauerkraut

Fermented food is so good and so good for you. It is easy and fast to make with just a few ingredients, common kitchen tools and supplies. What are we waiting for? Let’s do this.   Ideally you have a … Continue reading

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Basil Bunches and Making and Freezing Pesto

Fall is here and it is time to start saying goodbye to Summer crops. The shorter days signal crops like tomatoes, peppers and eggplant to stop blooming and to concentrate on ripening the fruit that is set on the plants. … Continue reading

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Olive Oil Lemon Zucchini Bread

When bloggers say, ‘I’m so excited to bring you this recipe’ it comes across to me as disingenuous . So, you know what I am about to say, right? I am so excited to bring you this recipe, and I … Continue reading

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Blistered Shishitos with Dipping Sauce

I   Love Shishito Peppers . I saw this recipe and was inspired to make a similar dipping sauce to the one in the recipe but use shishito peppers for the vehicle to move the sauce from the dish into my mouth. Broccoli, … Continue reading

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Charred Beans with Nori and Sesame Seed Dipping ‘Sand’.

This is my new favorite way to eat grilled vegetables. I love to eat with my fingers and I love to dip-dip-dip. This is so easy and fast to make. It’s just a sheet of Nori, some seeds and chili … Continue reading

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Salad Sandwiches

I love sandwiches. I can eat them for  breakfast, lunch and dinner. Sometimes I like a plain fried egg sandwich, or a grilled cheese. This time of year I like to see how many vegetables I can cram into (onto?) … Continue reading

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Brown Butter Tomatoes and Corn

Last year a CSA member (hi Merrill!) told me she made a dish that knocked her socks off, it was just tomatoes and brown butter. I thought about it a few times and never made it until yesterday. Oh, my. … Continue reading

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Potato and Green Bean Gribiche, Mexican Street Corn, and Fresh Corn Polenta

I made these dishes with my wonderful CSA bounty. They are all super simple, with only a few pantry ingredients and the CSA vegetables we have. These all were so good I wanted to share them. Gribiche sauce is French … Continue reading

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Three Sisters Quesadilla

Yum. I think this is my favorite quesadilla. Three Sisters is an agricultural term for 3 main crops native to America; corn, squash and beans. The three plants benefit each other when grown together. They also benefit each other when … Continue reading

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Grilled Ratatouille

Ratatouille; ra·ta·touille “a vegetable dish consisting of onions, zucchini, tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers, fried and stewed in oil and sometimes served cold.” OK, maybe not traditional ratatouille, but close. I didn’t have any peppers and I added some corn. Like … Continue reading

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