Happy New Year! The beginning of each new year is a time about resolutions and goals. One of my goals in 2015 is to waste less food. Our son brought home on winter break from college a barely touched clamshell of Earth Farms Organic Spinach. Although the spinach was past its "best by date," ...
Easy Weekday Recipes
Amazing Beet Pasta
I love beets – always have, always will. Unfortunately, my family doesn’t share my infatuation with beets. I have tried, with moderate success, to get them to tolerate beets. Which is why it is sometimes nice to be a Boy Scout widow. I know that there are worse things in this world to ...
Great Turkey Analogue for Two
Since Thanksgiving is only two weeks away, I figured I better get cracking and start evaluating all the new turkey analogues that have come on the market since last year. Sure, there are some tried and true favorites, like Quorn’s Turk’y Roast. But what if you are having your Thanksgiving meal with ...
Autumn Fix for Pesto Lovers
I don’t know about you, but I LOVE pesto. That’s why we grow so much basil in our herb garden every summer. Only this year’s basil crop was disappointing – to say the least. I don’t know what it was about our Carolina weather, but I had the worst basil crop I’ve had in the past two ...
Tri-Color Pepper Spiderbite Penne
My last post was about the phenomenal local goat cheese in my region of the Carolinas. Inspired by Fishing Creek Creamery's Spiderbite, a unique combination of creamy chèvre with the spicy bite of ghost peppers and a tiny hint of chocolate, I decided to revamp one of our favorite weeknight pasta ...
Sicilian Swiss Chard with Chicken Cutlets
Swiss chard has been one of my favorite greens since childhood. I grew Swiss Chard in my summer garden at Miles School, and always marveled at how different it was in flavor than spinach, collards, and the other greens we grew. Because my mom has macular degeneration, I am very conscious about ...
Before Watermelon and Cherry Tomato Season Ends . . .
The peak season for both watermelon and cherry tomatoes is approaching its end. Since I love the beautiful array of colors in the gorgeous artisan cherry tomatoes I've written about before, I decided to throw caution to the wind and combine these two unlikely ingredients! While I've previously ...
Celebrate Labor Day with My Easy Grilled Pineapple Chicken Salad
Happy Labor Day! If you'd like to know a little more about the history of Labor Day, check out this link. If you're looking for something a little more adventurous than a grilled burger to enjoy today, I hope you'll fix my Grilled Pineapple Chicken Salad. I created it for an impromptu cookout ...
