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Roasted Red Pepper and Sage with White Beans

Roasted Red Pepper and Sage with White Beans

Another Bunco month and I needed a quick dish to take so I made great northern beans with roasted red pepper and slivered fresh sage leaves. I quizzed a few of the Bunco Babes and they weren’t quite sure what the herb was, surprise fresh sage leaves! Tastes nothing like dried sage out of jar. [Read more...]

Garden Fresh Mexican Pasta-CSA

Garden Fresh Mexican Pasta-CSA

I have been interested in the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program and recently bought a trial box from Rock Dove Farms in Central Ohio. It was exciting to see what I would get and I was ready to get cooking. It reminds me of the cooking competitions where you get a box of ingredients and [Read more...]

Garlic Chicken and Vegetable Kabobs with Fresh Basil Oil

Garlic Chicken and Vegetable Kabobs with Fresh Basil Oil

Are you enjoying all your fresh veggies and basil out of the garden this summer? My husband always wants some kind of skewered meat and I have to admit it’s a lot more work to cube the meat and thread them onto the skewers, but it’s worth it. I have an awesome pesto recipe I [Read more...]

Vietnamese Spring Rolls

Vietnamese Spring Rolls

By golly I think I did it! I have been experimenting with Vietnamese spring rolls for over a year and I think I finally figured it out. My wrappers used to fall apart and tear, then my sauce was never to my satisfaction. So, when my Uncle and I went to a Vietnamese restaurant recently, [Read more...]

Pineapple-Kiwi Salsa

Pineapple-Kiwi Salsa

Is everyone ready to fire up the grills this weekend? Hopefully it won’t be raining, but I’ll grill in the rain with an umbrella either way. You’ll have to try this Pineapple-Kiwi Salsa that I created it will go great with your grilled meat. I made jerk pork chops and we topped it with this [Read more...]

Quick Shrimp Etouffee

Quick Shrimp Etouffee

My Mom got a cookbook in New Orleans when we were little and this quick Shrimp Etouffee dish was one she made often. This recipe is made in the microwave and is really easy and quick. Now for you purists who know you’re etouffee, I know it should have the deep roux color by cooking [Read more...]

Light Mexican Soup with Chicken, Hominy and Black Beans

Light Mexican Soup with Chicken, Hominy and Black Beans

What do you do with a chicken carcass after a chicken dinner? You know I don’t throw anything away, well anything that could be used. My Mom has said, “Did you grow up in the depression?” Ha Ha! Now I’m finally part of the “IN” crowd being so resourceful.  I bought a yummy rotisserie chicken; [Read more...]

Pesto Bean Salad

Pesto Bean Salad

Do you have those days where you just don’t know what to make? Well, I do. Yes, I love to talk about food, cook food, eat food and grow food but I still have those moments. Maybe it’s the winter blahs or I’m just drawing a blank. It was a bunco night and Ali was [Read more...]

Second Harvest Chili

Second Harvest Chili

You may recall, as you followed along with me this past year, how I said we would use some of our frozen and dried summer harvest later. Well, it’s later! It’s a chilly wintery day and time to go to our stash and use some of it to make a big pot of chili. Chili [Read more...]

Chicken and Okra Creole

Chicken and Okra Creole

My neighbor Carol and I have all these green tomatoes we pulled off the vines that are ripening on her enclosed back porch. They don’t have that summer tomato flavor but they do taste better than those from the grocery store! I’m glad we still have garden tomatoes for our sandwiches and I keep making [Read more...]

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