Pasta alla Puttanesca or pasta with puttanesca sauce is my all time favorite pasta dish. However, it is not necessarily something you would find on any weight loss plan, so I like experimenting with other pasta alternatives. I have tried gluten free pastas and they all work really well but the calories are still higher …
Romanesco Crunch Salad
This weeks Local Fare Farm Bag brought me four small heads of Romanesco Cauliflower. This vegetable enigma is called a Romanesco Cauliflower in North America, but in Germany they call it a Romanesco Broccoli or Cabbage. It is called Romanesco because of it’s beautiful ringed, cone-shaped florets. This is a cross between broccoli and cauliflower, …
Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie
After the holidays, we had a lot of left over Garlic-Rosemary Mashed Potatoes so a Shepherd’s Pie was in order! But not just any Shepherd’s Pie, a meatless pie filled with yummy vegetables and a surprise ingredient; roasted Watermelon Radishes! The Watermelon radish, also known as Roseheart or Red Meat radish, is an heirloom Chinese …
Lavender Mashed Potatoes
Want a healthier, funkier update to regular mashed potatoes?? Try mixing purple potatoes with cauliflower! You get the same comforting bite and texture with far less starch and much more nutritive value! WIN! Purple Potatoes are an excellent alternative to typical white or yellow fleshed potatoes. Purple Potatoes are rich in Antioxidant Phytochemicals. In 2012 …
Chipotle Egg Salad Breakfast Burrito
Looking for a quick and tasty breakfast? Look no further! These chipotle egg salad burritos are just the ticket! With just four ingredients (five if you are just now making the mayo) it is super easy to pull these together. We buy our uncooked tortillas at Costco, if you have never tried the Tortilla Land …
Vegan Mac-N-Cheese
I love cheese. I have been a cheese eating machine all my life. But now I am older and not in the best of health, I have allergies and need less phlegm in my life. So, I need to cut back on, if not completely eliminate, dairy in my diet at least for a while. …
Stuffed Carnival Squash
Carnival squash is similar to an Acorn squash in appearance, texture and flavor. It is actually a hybrid of the Acorn squash mixed with a Sweet Dumpling squash. The skin, as the name implies is very festive with splashes of bright orange, green and creamy yellow they are the Jackson Pollack art of produce. When …
Maui Waui Pork Chops & Potatoes
As the weather cools, using the oven is actually a welcome activity. It also makes getting dinner on the table so much simpler if everything goes into the oven to cook at the same time, freeing the cook to sit idly at the table perusing a magazine and enjoying a cool beverage while the magic …
Old Fashioned Sausage Gravy & Biscuits
Today a FaceBook friend asked me to share a recipe for country gravy so she could make gravy from scratch to serve over biscuits. She said she was not too savvy with making a roux, but she knew that was where she needed to start and she was so right about that. Gravy by definition …