Vegetable Recipes
Week 47: AND Vegan Creamed Green Beans and Onions
This OR that. Happy OR sad. Old OR new. Love OR hate. Friend OR foe. Grateful OR wanting. Good OR bad. I venture to guess that most of us have been taught to make such distinctions, and choose between the two. But, more often than not, the opposing sides exist at the same time, and […]
Week 46: Grateful for Slow Cooked Sweet Potato Soup
Thanksgiving sucks! Actually, I don’t really feel that way, but I figured it would get your attention, and, as I’m writing in this moment right now, it’s exactly how I feel. I’ve had 54 years of Thanksgiving celebrations and no two have been the same. As a kid, there were years where our huge dining table […]
Week 45: Tasty Stuffed Squash With a Side of Overwhelm
What do you do when a “16 waking hours day” is no match for your to-do list? Do you meditate? Do yoga? Take a walk? Take deep cleansing breathes? Down a couple glasses of wine? Eat ice cream? Sit and cry? Or some form of all of the above? This week, all of the above “solutions” […]
Week 42: Mongolian Lentil Stew Leaves Me Speechless
52 Saturdays left me feeling baffled this week. First, the recipe that I selected last week, while it said it was easy, seemed kind of disgusting and there was no way I was going to try to make a healthier version of it, so I switched recipes midway through the process. That recipe (which has […]
Week 36: The Ugly Tomato Tart
“The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can’t eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as ‘progress’, doesn’t spread.” ~ Andy Rooney What kind of tomatoes did you eat as a child? The tomatoes […]
Week 34: Go, Go, Gadget Shrimp Supreme
If I were a superhero, I’d be a combination of Catwoman—for sassiness—Wonder Woman—because who wouldn’t want to be Wonder Woman—and Inspector Gadget. While Inspector Gadget is not an official superhero, he’s resourceful and has the perfect tool for each and every possible occurrence. Twenty-foot wall to scale? No problem, he’s got Gadget Springs in his […]
Week 28: Peppers and the Past
For most people, Grandma (or in my case, Nana) is synonymous with warmth, tenderness, well-worn aprons, fresh-baked cookies, snuggles, silly games, and front-row cheering during school concerts. While I have every intention of making sure that image is true for my grandchildren, this was not the case with me and my mom’s mother, my Nana. […]
Week 20: Waiting for the Little Sweet Potato
Any day now my daughter’s life is about to change forever and she’ll be a Mother. We’re all in that expectant holding pattern where there’s lots of love, support, excitement and some anxiety as we wait for the Little Sweet Potato to arrive. The next few posts are likely going to be very short like this one, […]
Week 19: Colorful Food and Colorful Conversation
Did the vibrant Rainbow Chard influence the dinner conversation? I can’t be sure, but sharing this week’s recipe experience with Kara’s inlaws was a blast and certainly colorful! Over a period of two hours, the range and nature of topics we discussed were as colorful as the ingredients in the meal; inspiring Robin (Kara’s mother in […]
Week 15: Tofu Friend Is Not an Insult
I’m a tofu friend. When I was first given that label I thought it meant I was a health fanatic like, “crunchy” or “granola”. I thought it was ironic because I didn’t even like tofu at the time. When I asked my friend to clarify what she meant by “tofu friend”, she told me that […]