This recipe came to me as a task assignment for a plant-based cooking course I’m taking (www.rouxbe.com). The assignment was: create something with a starchy vegetable and some greens. I had just harvested a bin of carrots, beets, kale, and some surprise parsnips (I had forgotten I had planted them!). So of course, they showed…
Quinoa Confetti Salad With Curried Cashews
Quinoa is an ancient food. Quinoa is an awesome source of protein and fiber. It’s a complex protein and is a wonderful healing, anti-inflammatory food. Many people think of it as a grain. The part of quinoa that we eat is actually the seed of the plant, making it a gluten and grain free food. I…
Garden Fresh Fall Minestrone Soup
As the harvest rolls in, many veggies are at their peak of perfection. Tomatoes, peppers, onions, eggplant, basil, and zucchini all make this soup full of flavor. Use a combo of veggies to make this recipe your own. We quadrupled this recipe when we made it, using a lot of tomatoes! We freeze our soups…
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…
