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
Category Archives: Vegetarian
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
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
Green Salad with Roasted Squash, Apple, and Grapes
My friend Aimee from Small Eats recently posed a question about food phases. She was talking specifically about her Thai food phase, having posted a photo on Instagram of Meatless Kabocha Curry (the recipe for which is on her site, btw). This whole mention of food phases started me thinking. Aside from a year or… Continue Reading
Linguine with Fennel and Kale + a Dreamfields giveaway
This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Janet Faye who won the selection of seven Dreamfields pasta cuts and a $25 gift card! Thank you to everyone who entered – it was fun to read all of your favorite pasta dishes! Coming from a family whose nearly every meal felt the very strong influence of… Continue Reading