Editor’s Note: This is our fourth installment of a 4 1/2 month challenge, Dark Days, taken up by 88 blogs spanning the country, to eat one meal a week as local, sustainable, ethical and organic as possible. I’m talking gluten-free sweet potato gnocchi, my very own quart of canned tomatoes and some sautéed broccoli rabe….
Category: Lunch
{Leftover Magic} Crockpot Chicken Noodle Soup
The very first time I made my own chicken stock and soup, I was pregnant with my first daughter. I simmered my beautiful, delicious soup all day, and therefore got to smell it’s amazing aromas all day. Sadly, by the time evening rolled around, my morning sickness got the best of me, and I couldn’t…
{Desperately Seeking} Meal Plan Follow-Up
Editor’s Note: This is Leslie’s follow-up to her initial request for meal planning tips and tricks in our series, {Desperately Seeking} Reader’s Advice. -Christina I am in the middle of my third week of official meal-planning, and LOVING it! No more are the days of wondering all afternoon what the heck I’m going to make…
There’s no easier way to feed a crowd than with veggie chili!
When I heard that my mother, my aunt, my brother, his wife and their baby were going to be staying at our house this past weekend I decided to be practical in my planning for meals and to stick to what I know. I’ve been making chili since I was in college and, although I…
What’s New In Your Kitchen – Bento Box Edition
I don’t know about the rest of you but I really struggle with packing my 2-going-on-14 year old’s lunch box. He likes to eat lots of little thing. I like this about him actually. It gives me the opportunity to present him with several different food items to try. If he doesn’t like one thing,…
Beer Can Chicken {oh so juicy! oh so fancy!}
One of our weekly staples is one, 4 pound roasted chicken. Beer Can Style. In the oven. So juicy. So fancy. My farm-to-table schedule: I buy a chicken from Dick & Peg (and sometime their grandchildren) of Brookside Farm (farmers of the egg share for Denison Farm CSA package) at the Saturday Saratoga Farmers Market….
{Soup’s On!} Z is for Zucchini
Once the weather gets cool, all I want is to cook and eat soup. A bowl of soup with some homemade bread and butter, maybe a little salad…this is absolutely the perfect lunch. Or dinner. Or snack. 🙂 Soup just may be the perfect meal. This recipe (originally passed on to me from my sister,…
{Weekend} Reading: LOCAL EDITION
Honestly, ’tis the season for local food-related events! There is so much going on its hard to keep up. There are festivals, fairs, charity dinners, farm tours. You name it, its going on this fall season. FESTIVALS, FAIRS, HARVEST DINNERS AND CONFERENCES New to this list: Altamont Orchards’s Altamont Apple & Wine Festival at the…
Tomatos- No, not sauce…….
SANDWICH’S, what to do with the ones that didn’t make the cut, for the sauce. I love all things tomatoes, but I am the WORST tomato grower ever, I mean WORST. This year we planted three different varieties The sauce/ eating tomato I can’t remember the name of, Sun Gold ( Orange Cherry) and Golden…
I LOVE Pasta!
As stated in the title I LOVE me some PASTA, I don’t care the topping- I’ll pretty much eat anything. I started to get sick of grilled Zucchini after about the tenth or so bag of zucchini brought to us by my WONDERFUL in-laws. I couldn’t stand to see any go to waste, so night after…
{Ratatouille} with bonus recipe
Internet factoid: “The eggplant is a member of the nightshade family to it is akin to the potato, tomato as well as the tomatillo and chayote. Although we use the eggplant as a vegetable it is really a fruit. The eggplant is native to India and Pakistan and was first domesticated over 4000 years ago….
Campfire Potatoes
For as long as I can remember my Mom has been having a love affair with potatoes. She always says that she has never met a potato that she didn’t like. She found a million different ways to make potatoes while we were growing up, and she still does! She loves to eat them and…
{recipe} Bok Choy Wontons
I have never tried to make wontons before. I watched a cooking video on the subject by the Tamra Davis Cooking Show and decided to try my hand. I knew it would be a time consuming task so I decided to do it over a weekend using two days to complete the task. On Saturday…
Chinese Cabbage: Korean Pancakes
I made this recipe many, many times before and they are a big hit with Miles. I haven’t made them with cabbage, but are perfect for it. And honestly, the recipe calls for cabbage, I’ve just always ignored it. I have many korean pancake recipes (we have a few korean cookbooks) but I really like…
