Roasted Edamame Tabbouleh

Shortly before I served dinner tonight, I posted my status update on Facebook, “I’m about to serve a dinner likely to be unpopular with the younger set, given Ian’s recent outburst: “Vegetables, vegetable, all we ever HAVE is vegetables!””
It turns out I was wrong.  Not only did my children willingly eat this dish, they kept [...]

Gazpacho

I have fond memories of eating a cold vegetable soup called Gazpacho when I was a kid, but I had no idea how to make gazpacho.  (Gazpacho is pronounced guh-zspah-cho.)
So this past weekend, when it was a dark and stormy night…in the middle of the summer, actually…and I needed to figure out how to serve [...]

Freezing vegetables for soup

I’ve saved my favorite tip for last in this series on freezing fresh produce. I learned this from a friend who is completely passionate about gardening and always has great produce during the summer months. She calls it making soup kits.

Freezing Vegetables

Freezing veggies is a bit more of a process than freezing fruit, but it’s still not hard and is definitely worth the time and the trouble.
In June, my husband brought home 40 pounds of asparagus that he got for $0.70 a pound.

Freezing Fruit

Freezing fresh fruit in season is the very best way to hold on to the taste of summer. It’s surprisingly easy and well worth the time it takes to do it.
We love the taste of summer fruits and vegetables–freshly picked and bursting with flavor. In fact, we love summer’s bountiful harvest so much that we [...]

Coconut Brownies

So I’m on vacation at the family cottage on Lake Michigan. Thing about this cottage is that it’s 103 years old and LIFE is all about making do with what we have. We don’t have the right pans, we don’t have room to work, we don’t have good knives, we often don’t even have the [...]

Crazy Cake

I’m always happy to find recipes that are no-egg and dairy-free recipes. This recipe happens to be an old friend too, which makes it even nicer.
Years and years ago my mom made something called Crazy Cake. Yesterday a good friend shared something that she called Goofy Cake. To my delight, Goofy Cake turns out to [...]