Wow, is this ever tasty! A great example of how healthy food definitely does NOT need to be boring or taste like sawdust. And you get a pretty big plate of food for under 600 calories! High fiber, low fat; if you’re watching your sodium, you could easily decrease the salt. Once you’ve done a little chopping,…
Category: Sides
Blueberry-Balsamic Green Beans & Chard
My garden is bursting at the seams! One day we had hardly anything, and now we can’t eat it fast enough. I’ve been so busy keeping up with the incredibly prolific cherry tomatoes and cucumbers that I kind of forgot about my Swiss Chard. Wow, is it ever big! I discovered last summer that chard and…
Bulgur With Tomato & Avocado
Quick-cooking bulgur makes a great salad when combined with fresh vegetables, a light vinaigrette, and feta. You can serve it warm, or make ahead & refrigerate until meal time. If you do the latter, wait until the last minute to add the avocado and feta. You’ll find a printer-friendly version of the recipe at the bottom…
Butter Cornbread
This is cornbread at its most decadent. Fluffy, rich & flavorful. You’ll find a printer-friendly version of the recipe at the bottom of this page. Ingredients: 1 cup corn meal 1 cup flour ¼ cup sugar 4½ tsp baking powder 1 tsp kosher salt ¼ cup butter (½ stick), refrigerated & cut into pats 1 cup milk…
Summer Veggie & Potato Medley
The challenge: Use up some garden vegetables before they have a chance to go bad. The result: An easy, delicious salad! My cucumber vines were done, so it was time to harvest the cukes & clean up the box for a late planting of sugar peas. My basil needed pinching and the grape tomatoes &…
Rosemary-Balsamic Beet and Arugula Salad
Beets are another acquired taste – for me, anyway. We used to have them at Christmas, and I hated having to eat my “no, thank you” helping (a phrase I learned at Camp Onanda – Stand Up, and Cheer!…). When I started vegetable gardening in earnest, I decided to grow vegetables I thought I didn’t…
Guacamole
Whenever I’m in the produce section at the grocery store, I check out the avocados. It’s not often, unfortunately, that I find them at just the right ripeness. So when I do, I grab them and build my dinner menu around guac. It’s just so tasty! Fun to make, too, if you like mashing things,…
Baked Vidalia
Don’t you just love this time of year? So many yummy veggies in season! I seem to put Vidalias in nearly everything. They’re so sweet, they don’t even need cooking most of the time. In fact, their flavor is so mild that they just disappear in some cooked dishes. So, on the tail ends of their…
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