So you still have a lot of zucchini, but you’re been told you’re supposed to move on to fall recipes now that it’s September? Well here’s one for you. Did you know you can make zucchini taste like apple? You didn’t?! Well now you do! By simmering peeled zucchini in lemon juice and fall spices…
How To Can Tomatoes
If your garden is exploding right now with tomatoes, you should learn how to can these beauties! If you don’t have a garden, you most likely have access to a farmer’s market or produce stand that has quarts and quarts of tomatoes for sale. Now is the time-SEIZE THE DAY (or days in my case)…
Lemon Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Dried Tart Cherries
It’s late summer/early fall. That means harvest time for so many wonderful foods here in the Northeast! I always try to grow a new food each year. This year it was Brussels sprouts! Very easy to grow. Since I was new at this, I wasn’t sure on the harvesting time. This is what the plant…
Asian Sweet Potato Salad
I have never liked potato salad. I think it’s the mayo, the white potatoes, the lack of flavor and mush that usually accompanies it. I wanted to try to make something different this year for Father’s Day and celebrate the men in our lives with some flair. I remembered making a sweet potato salad before…
Tofu Curry With Seasonal Greens
I had been hearing amazing things about a beautiful cookbook called, Afro Vegan. It has an interesting collection of recipes with wonderful ingredients from African, Caribbean, and Southern backgrounds. The first recipe I made was Bryant Terry’s Tofu Curry. I made several alterations but used it as my inspirational base. Often times my kids say “tofu,…
