Autumn Vegetable Soup

This recipe, adapted from Simply in Season, is another one of those great basic recipes that you can vary depending on what vegetables you have on hand. Here is my version: In the soup pot, saute 1/2 C minced onion and 2 cloves of minced  garlic in 1 T of olive oil for 1 minute [...]

Greek Tomato Salad

I’m not sure why, but I didn’t feel like making my originally-planned dinner of eggplant burgers. I have eggplants coming out of my ears so I need to use them up soon. But Troy came home and wanted venison on the grill, so I poured over my Simply in Season cookbook for some suitable side [...]

Mexican Stuffed Peppers

Much to my husband’s dismay, these peppers contain no meat and were not particularly filling. So if you have a husband or an appetite, you might want to double the recipe. As you might guess, the recipe begins by gutting 4 peppers (can be any color) and steaming them in 1 inch of water for [...]

Chicken Cacciatore

There’s nothing like coming home from a hard day’s work, opening the door, and smelling the aroma of dinner ready and waiting. Yes, it’s that time of year to haul out a working woman’s best friend: the crock pot. For this recipe, adapted from Simply in Season, I started with a 4 lb whole chicken [...]

Roasted Summer Vegetables

This is one of those recipes that I love – it provides the mix and max concept that I’m still trying to master. Someday I want to be able to look into my cupboard/frig/freezer and whip up something that tastes great with whatever ingredients happen to be on hand. In the meantime, I can cheat [...]

Campfire Salmon

Adapted from Simply in Season. First, a word about fish. For this recipe, I used farmed salmon fillets that I bought at Sam’s Club. That was before I started hearing about how bad farmed fish is for the environment. You’ve heard of CAFO, I’m sure, where cows are smooshed into pens and walk around in [...]

Super Stuffed Tortillas

If you are looking for a way to sneak in leftover veggies, this is your recipe! Very tasty. Adapted from Simply in Season, this isn’t a difficult recipe but adds some veggies that at least I wouldn’t have thought to put in there. Start out by sauteeing 2 cloves of garlic, an onion, and a [...]