Caramelized Broccoli with Roasted Garlic Vinaigrette is a mouthful! And a pretty delicious mouthful at that. This is a tried and tested method of preparing vegetables that our family has enjoyed for years. Caramelized Broccoli with Roasted Garlic Vinaigrette is a two-part recipe. First, you make the Roasted Garlic Vinaigrette, and then you make the Caramelized Broccoli. Both parts of this dish are useful in other meals and recipes, and we will be getting to that. Fresh broccoli is ... Read More about Caramelized Broccoli with Roasted Garlic Vinaigrette
Side Dishes
Warm Quinoa and Roasted Vegetable Salad
I love the flavors in this Warm Veggie Quinoa Salad. These fall vegetables are perfect with quinoa and the vinaigrette is a beautiful spark of freshness. Seriously - SO good together. I think overall, the popularity of quinoa has diminished somewhat. For a while there it was all the rage because it was a little less carby than white rice or pasta. As a person who is mostly low-carb, I still appreciate that it is similar in carb count to brown rice. I love the flavor when it's cooked ... Read More about Warm Quinoa and Roasted Vegetable Salad
Homemade Apple Sauce
The Basics Series - Homemade Apple Sauce Homemade Apple Sauce is one of the first things I remember helping with when I was a kid. Both my Mom and grandmother made applesauce. Often they did it together, and, as the kids it was often our job to squish the apples through the old-fashioned Chinois with the wooden pestle. I don't know what has become of the chinois, but I still have Grandma's pestle. It's handy for all sorts of percussive tasks in the kitchen. Because of that, I admit it is a ... Read More about Homemade Apple Sauce
Maple Glazed Delicata Squash
A delicious winter squash side dish Here, in Upstate NY, the garden is nearly done. We have a few root crops here and there, and some hardy greens, but things are pretty much cleared out. Time to enjoy the fruits of our labor and this Maple Glazed Delicata Squash is very rewarding indeed. We have a fair number of Delicata squash this year. That makes us pretty happy because they are so good. Probably the sweetest of winter squash, and they are small enough to cook up quickly. A ... Read More about Maple Glazed Delicata Squash
Lemon Garlic Roasted Cauliflower
A fast fall side dish - Lemon Garlic Roasted Cauliflower One of our favorite fall vegetables is cauliflower. It's especially well priced this time of year, which makes this Lemon Garlic Roasted Cauliflower a great dinner idea. It's in your supermarket, I'm sure, but try your local Farmer's Market for super fresh local cauliflower. You can gab some fresh garlic too and maybe a pumpkin or two for roasting. Being a low-carber most of the time, I love this recipe as a sort of potato ... Read More about Lemon Garlic Roasted Cauliflower
Cucumber and Avocado Salad with Feta
Try this delicious idea! It is the beginning of cucumber season here in Upstate NY. I went looking through my old posts for a really great cucumber recipe to bring up here to the top of things and this one seemed like a great choice. I hope you enjoy it all over again! We wait all year for the garden to begin filling with cucumbers. When it finally does, I am ready with a ton of fresh ideas for how to enjoy them. I've been dreaming about this salad since about February! I suppose I could ... Read More about Cucumber and Avocado Salad with Feta
Chili Roasted Butternut Squash
Fall meals will never be the same You'll see - this dish is beyond delicious. I've made this tasty Chili Roasted Butternut Squash for innumerable family and friend gatherings, and it is always a hit. How does your family "do" Thanksgiving? Do you have the same treasured old stand-bys year after year, or do you like to find the latest trends? Does one person do all the cooking, or do you split things up, with different people bringing things to share? Do you travel? Stay home ... Read More about Chili Roasted Butternut Squash
Rainbow Veggie Slaw
Rainbow Veggie Slaw - easy and delicious! If you follow me on Instagram, you might have seen my post about a version of this salad at the end of last year. I was talking about how happy I was to be making this Rainbow Veggie Slaw in December entirely from vegetables we grew ourselves. Some of that is due to plain luck - having fresh sweet peppers from the garden is not usual in December in Upstate New York. They somehow survived in the fridge until then, which is unusual. We had not ever ... Read More about Rainbow Veggie Slaw
Marinated Tomato Salad
I am writing to you from the land of grandchildren today! It's a happy place, if a bit tiring exhausting at times. We are minding our granddaughter Evelyn, while her baby brother Micah gets born - fun times for all. He is a healthy, sturdy little guy, and it's instant love the first time you hold your grandkids! We would not trade this time for anything - both spending extra time with Evelyn, and getting to know Micah when he comes home later today. I have to admit it will be nice to have our ... Read More about Marinated Tomato Salad
Spicy Zucchini “Fries”
We have had a pretty busy summer here at Creekside. I'm not exactly sure how Larry had time to ever go to work before he retired, because it seems like every day is filled to overflowing. Our latest adventure is that we have become vendors at a local market in my hometown. The Thursday Night Farm to Fork Farmer's Market is a fun venue, with music, great food from local restaurants [often using products from the vendors], and a revolving number of other local small producers. We had thought ... Read More about Spicy Zucchini “Fries”
Rutabaga Cheddar Mash
Poor rutabagas - so misunderstood! So ignored and under-appreciated! Not around here though. They have always been a big favorite of ours, and this is the perfect time of year to enjoy them. They are a very easy vegetable to grow, though here they don't seem to become quite as large as the ones we can buy in the store - you want to harvest them at about softball size, so that they don't become fibrous. We are out of the ones we grew last fall, because though they keep quite a long time, we have ... Read More about Rutabaga Cheddar Mash
The Best Turkey Gravy
A nice dark roux is the secret! As I've mentioned in a few other posts recently, we've updated some of our Thanksgiving recipes in the last few years. We have all become better cooks over the years, plus our tastes have changed somewhat and of course there is always that food blogger gene that can never let well enough alone. There's always a better recipe around the corner, right? In the case of this turkey gravy that was 100% true. For years, I used a slurry to thicken any gravy I was making. ... Read More about The Best Turkey Gravy