Here are my delicious salad and side dish recipes for you to try:
Recipe: Holiday Cranberry-Satsuma Relish
Here’s this year’s Thanksgiving cranberry sauce recipe. It’s sweet and tart, vegan and low glycemic. It’s great on turkey sandwiches before AND after the holidays … it’s a keeper!
Recipe: Balsamic zucchini “chips” with garlic and almonds
Experimenting with the fruits of our backyard zucchini harvest paid off with this improvised recipe for zucchini “chips” with garlic, almond, and balsamic vinegar. Mmmmm. And it’s delicious year-round.
Recipe: Watermelon salad for a summer BBQ
A Memorial Day weekend spent trying to refinish the kitchen cabinets is livened up with this perfect summer watermelon salad.
Hot weather celery salad
Climate change is the new black. My peppers and tomatoes are happy; the dog is miserable; the boy has the swimming unit in P.E. this month so he is just fine. Hot days deserve cool meals, you know, so here’s a recipe for a celery and jicama salad that promises to take the edge off the heat.
Mushroom caps stuffed with red pepper and quinoa
Vegan stuffed mushroom caps are nutritious and delicious and are a fairly simple recipe to make in advance for a holiday meal or a dinner party
Late summer vegetable harvest, pickled
My vegetable crop was relatively small this year. One reason was out of my control; July and August were tremendously foggy this year. But I didn't amend the soil or set up the drip irrigation like I did the past two years, and that certainly made a difference. But...
Au gratin potatoes with spinach and gruyere
This easy vegetarian meal tastes even better than it looks. Seriously. Yukon Gold potatoes layered with Gruyere cheese and spinach – and you can top it with a poached egg for a little extra somethin’ somethin’.
Pork egg roll with apple, carrot, and jicama
My first homegrown monster Mutsu apples inspired this recipe. Make your slaw in advance; you will have leftovers by design that are wonderful tossed with cashews on a lettuce or tortilla wrap with avocado. The first time I made these these egg rolls with fresh fried...
Crispy prosciutto and melon salad
Easy summer salad made with crispy prosciutto, melon, olive oil, and mint