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
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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
How to Cook a Fresh Pumpkin
Cooking a fresh pumpkin for baking - it's easy! September and October are always SO busy for us. We become slaves to the garden and the freezer and canner. Have to get all that fresh produce, including fresh pumpkin, taken care of! It makes for a lot of very tasty eating over the winter months. Still, I sometimes ask myself just who had the bright idea of planting all this stuff? On the other hand, it is awfully nice to look around on a January morning and find that we have all I need to ... Read More about How to Cook a Fresh Pumpkin
Sweet Corn Pancakes
Take Advantage of Late-season Corn It's late summer here in Upstate NY, and the end-of-season sweet corn is just coming into its own. Typically, the best corn of the year is the last to ripen, and that is what we have right now. It's amazing no matter how you prepare it. We love Fresh Corn Fritters which are a more savory dish than these Sweet Corn Pancakes. My husband is particularly fond of pancakes with corn in them, maybe because sweet corn was a big crop when he was growing up on his ... Read More about Sweet Corn Pancakes
Warm Green Bean Tomato Salad
Salads don't have to be cold This Warm Green Bean Tomato Salad proves that point very nicely. Full of garden fresh veggies, topped with a lively vinaigrette - it's good eats, summer-style. Our favorite kind of food! If you don't have a garden of your own, just about every Farmer's Market in the country will have all of these veggies right now, so getting ahold of the ingredients won't be too difficult. Great for picnics This would be great to take to a cookout or picnic this weekend ... Read More about Warm Green Bean Tomato Salad
Easy Tomato Sauce for Canning & Freezing
An Easy Tomato Sauce is a must if you garden It's that time of year with which I have a love/hate relationship. The tomatoes are starting to come in the back door in multiple 5-gallon buckets now. That means that no matter what else is going on, I have to deal with them. Mostly because we only have so many buckets, and there are plenty more tomatoes where those came from. This easy sauce method helps me get through a lot of tomatoes quickly. It's been a challenging year in the ... Read More about Easy Tomato Sauce for Canning & Freezing
Chai Zucchini Quick Bread
I know that this Chai Zucchini Quick Bread might be a little surprising. In August, here in Upstate NY, we sometimes have no zucchini, because bad weather, and the bugs got to it. Or, more likely, we have a ton of zucchini. I'm not kidding - a literal ton. It's a lot, Consequently, thrifty people are looking for ways to make sure it doesn't go to waste, which is where zucchini bread often comes in. As I mentioned last week, there's an actual evening dedicated to unloading your ... Read More about Chai Zucchini Quick Bread
Mediterranean Orzo Salad
I'm bringing this delightful Mediterranean Orzo Salad recipe up from where it formerly appeared. It remains a huge favorite of ours, and I've had a few emails lately from people trying to find it. They couldn't remember the name, so for those folks, here is it, right up at the front of the blog again. This is a great salad to make on a busy weekend morning because you can get it put together in the morning, and consequently, it is in the fridge, waiting for you at dinner time. Great ... Read More about Mediterranean Orzo Salad
Lemon Garlic Zucchini
Do you know what special event we are celebrating today? I bet you don't... It is "Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night". Woohoo! This is an actual thing, people. A gentleman in Pennsylvania, by the name of Tom Roy, came up with the idea - there is even a Facebook Page for it! As any gardener can tell you, this is an easy-to-celebrate day because in August we are losing the battle with the zukes. Despite our best efforts to pick them small, there are always a few ... Read More about Lemon Garlic Zucchini
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
Sauteed Radishes with Sea Salt & Lime
Sauteed Radishes with Sea Salt & Lime? Really? Yes, really! Now that it's July, we're starting to get quite a few fresh veggies from the garden. It's the time of year we dream about in January. It seems like every day there is a new vegetable, ready to enjoy. And while we've been eating them for a few weeks now, radishes are starting to give up a real bumper crop this week. I really like radishes, and we eat quite a lot of them in salads, or simply with a sprinkle of salt. Then I ... Read More about Sauteed Radishes with Sea Salt & Lime