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…
Garden Fresh Tomato Sauce
Sunday sauce-a great thing to do on a Sunday! Making sauce from in-season veggies traps in the sweetness of vegetables at their height of perfection. If you don’t grow tomatoes, go pick up a few quarts and make some sauce! We make a big batch and freeze or can what we don’t use. This recipe…
Maple Granola
Granola-crunchy goodness, typically packed with fat, and high amounts of refined sugars. Well, step on back…this one is delicioso! We added no fat to this recipe. Oats do have naturally occurring unsaturated fats, that help to lower cholesterol. We added a little bit of local maple syrup and toasted until crunchy. It makes an awesome…
Limey Black Beans With Garlic Scapes
We have a friend who is an awesome garlic and honey farmer. She surprised me the other day and dropped off these lovely garlic scapes!!! I was sooo excited. I couldn’t wait to use them, except we’ve been sooo busy rushing out of the house for sports, they had to sit for few days. This…
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,…
