Rhubarb Sauce

rhubarb sauce

Next to asparagus, rhubarb is my favorite springtime vegetable. Growing up I’d eat it straight from my Grandma’s garden. She made THE BEST rhubarb sauce. Would this recipe from Simply in Season compare?

Turkey Lentil Pilaf

turkeylentilpilaf

I LOVE cinnamon and mint with meat, so I was excited to make this main dish from Simply in Season. Luckily I was not disappointed.

Taco Filling (with Vegetables!)

taco filling

When I saw another recipe for taco filling in Simply in Season, I wondered why. I mean, how many taco recipes does one need? But this lightened-up version is just the ticket to sneaking vegetables into your family’s dinner.

Carrot Cookies

cookies

I sort of cheated on this recipe. I had some leftover apple carrot salad so I substituted that for the carrots. No worries, this is a very basic cookie recipe from Simply in Season that lent itself to adaptation.

Help! Share Your Bulk Food Storage Tips

Normally I try to find a tip or two to link up to the Works for Me Wednesday post at We are That family, but this week we are supposed to ask for tips FROM our readers. Which is very timely, because I have a storage dilemma. You see, ever since Saturday, I’ve had a [...]

Wild Rice Vegetable Bake

wildricebake

This is one of the recipes I made for the potluck at the Franklin Farm. DH was quite disappointed that he wasn’t going, but he did get some leftovers.

Top 10 Things to Do with Kale

kale

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinybanquet/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Ah, the dreaded kale. Are YOU wondering how to cook kale? The first year I did a CSA (community supported agriculture, where you purchase a share and get 1-2 bags of vegetables each week from a farm) I had no idea what anything was. There was a large chalkboard indicating [...]

Cinnamon Bread

cinnamon bread

I have always been a sucker for cinnamon bread, and cinnamon rolls. Maybe because my Grandma Leep made the BEST cinnamon rolls. A decade later I still remember the smell of walking in after Sunday school and sitting down to coffee and cinnamon rolls. Perfectly iced, a bit crunchy in the outer layer, and a [...]

Orange Mint Tea

tea

I forget where I read it, but one of my many cookbooks suggests spending time in the kitchen every day. I definitely see where this would be a benefit, and I will probably need to do this if I’m going to finish all the recipes in Simply in Season by my deadline. The reason it’s [...]

Apple Carrot Salad

apple carrot salad

Another one of the recipes from Simply in Season that I looked at and said “huh?” But I’m glad I tried it, as this simple salad is refreshingly good.