Pumpkin AND pecans? Why yes, and it’s delicious!
Sweet Potato Salad
January 23, 2010 By 5 Comments
This is an interesting salad recipe from Simply in Season. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, as I have never had a sweet potato salad before.
Dark Days Challenge: Honey Baked Chicken, Collards, and Apples & Squash
January 7, 2010 By 7 Comments
Can I just say, this was the most delicious meal I’ve had in awhile? This Dark Days Challenge thing is harder than I thought it would be. Before I started this challenge, I thought I had the eating local thing down pat. What I didn’t realize was, how very hard it is to have every. single. ingredient local. So many times, the sides are mostly local, but the meat isn’t. Or the meat is, but the sides aren’t. Or I {Read More}
Vegetarian Groundnut Stew
December 8, 2009 By 2 Comments
The introduction to this recipe from Simply in Season states that it’s “inspired by peanut stews served in West Africa.” Indeed, I have been to West and East Africa, and in both areas of the continent I’ve been inspired by their use of peanuts (called groundnuts) in savory dishes. One recipe that I really wish I had gotten was sort of like a green bean casserole only with peanuts. It sounds kind of disgusting but it was awesome! For this {Read More}
Winter Squash/Pumpkin Bars
December 7, 2009 By 2 Comments
Have you ever thought a recipe was one thing at first glance, and then when you read it a few times all of a sudden you realize it wasn’t what you thought it was? For some reason when I first glanced at this recipe, I thought it was for pumpkin PIE squares. But no, these are actually pumpkin squares, like a cake. This is another recipe where a Kitchen Aid comes in handy. Beat together 2 C winter squash or {Read More}
Butternut Sage Orzo
December 6, 2009 By 5 Comments
A perfect turkey day side dish or a nice Sunday afternoon lunch. Much less fussy than risotto!
Pumpkin Dip
December 4, 2009 By 11 Comments
Have you ever had to go to a party or “bring a dish to pass” event and brought chips and dip? Or something from the deli and just put it in your own bowl hoping no one would notice the telltale taste of preservatives or whatever it is they put in the potato salad that has that chemically sweet aftertaste? There is an alternative that is almost as fast and is a bit more impressive: Homemade Dips like the Pumpkin Dip {Read More}
Sweet Potato & Black Bean Wraps
December 2, 2009 By 4 Comments
Well folks, believe it or not, this recipe is NOT from Simply in Season. I’m taking a break from my regularly scheduled cookbook in order to provide an original recipe to my blogger friend FJ–check out his Fitness Blog. “I have a few people I work with that are vegetarian and they have a tough time meeting the 1g per lbs of body weight protein requirement unless they rely heavily on protein shakes. So I figured if there was anyone {Read More}
Chicken and Chickpea Soup
December 1, 2009 By 2 Comments
Ok folks, this is heavily adapted from Simply in Season. I started with a 3 lb stewing chicken, the one left from last week’s farm pickup. At about 7 AM this morning I put it, along with 9 cups of water, an onion cut in wedges, 2 peeled whole cloves of garlic, 1 stick of cinnamon, 1 tsp whole cardamom pods, and 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg in the crockpot and set it to low. When I came home from work {Read More}
Persimmons: My nemesis.
November 28, 2009 By 2 Comments
I have almost finished with all the autumn recipes in Simply in Season. I had already planned to have guest bloggers review the cranberry recipes, but another fruit has become just as problematic: the persimmon. In the past month or so various persimmon recipes have been appearing in my favorite local cooking blogs and magazines, such as Culinate and Eating Well. However, I didn’t see them at my farmer’s market. I posted an inquiry about where to find the fruit {Read More}
