Summer is the season of tending to the garden during the cool, early morning, long afternoons on the beach, warm evenings on the front porch. Summer is also most definitely the time to start preserving the harvest, whether from our own backyard or from the farm we discovered on our weekend drive. Lucky for us, tomorrow… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Recipes
Caramelized Fennel with Orange
Our local grocery store is kind enough to donate their vegetable and fruit scraps to us as a supplement to our pigs’ diet. If the pigs’ weekly loot is any indication, fennel is not a terribly popular vegetable, which is unfortunate, as it is one of my favorites, and I believe it is deserving of… Continue Reading
Pumpkin Pie Baked Steel Cut Oats from The Whole Grain Promise: More Than 100 Recipes to Jumpstart a Healthier Diet + a giveaway
This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Heather, Diane, and Tracy, who all won a copy of the fabulous book The Whole Grain Promise. full disclosure: I was provided a complimentary copy of The Whole Grain Promise: More Than 100 Recipes to Jumpstart a Healthier Diet by its publisher, Running Press. As always, all opinions are… Continue Reading
Sweet Potato-Bacon Biscuits
It’s time to start thinking about Turkey Day dishes again, and what better place to start than the bread basket? Because who doesn’t love a light, fluffy, sweet, and spicy bread product when the holidays roll around? Heck, who doesn’t love a light, fluffy, sweet, and spicy bread product when tonight’s dinner rolls around? And what… Continue Reading
Roasted Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese
On a rainy, rainy night the first week in December, we – and by “we”, I mean JR, me, and 10 others – first sampled the dish that would inspire this one. Ooohs and ahhhhs ensued as the dish was passed around the table, just one bite for each of us, then back to the… Continue Reading