Eating and living locally . . . mindfully . . . simply.
WARNING: This recipe not for the faint of heart or weak of colon. I decided to combine two challenges today. My blogger friend FJ, whose blog is www.flawlessfitnessbook.com, asked me to create a meaty dish with some sort of high-water content vegetable, preferably spicy. His audience is a bunch of hard-core bodybuilders (although, I love his style of writing and find his advice just as helpful for a regular old person trying to lose weight and get more fit). I {Read More}
This recipe, adapted from Simply in Season, is an interpretation of spanakopita but uses swiss chard instead of spinach. I actually had to go buy swiss chard at the farmer’s market because I didn’t have enough from the CSA. I didn’t quite have the 2 1/2 lbs called for once I removed the stems, but it barely fit in the skillet as it is so I’m not sure what I would have done if I did have the full amount. {Read More}
As I mentioned before, this year I have a newfound appreciation for greens because of a “cooking with greens” class I took at my CSA. Knowledge is power! For this dish I used collard greens and a few winter radish tops since that’s what I had jumping out at me from the refrigerator. Which reminds me, I need to get in there and do some freezing of the vegetables that I haven’t cooked yet and are in danger of going {Read More}
It feels like autumn in West Michigan. The weather is cooler and the winter squash is here. This recipe made great use of both CSA veggies and the squash that my dad grew in his garden. While I’m kind of sad that the warm weather is nearly gone (and the Michigan winter is coming!) I’m looking forward to the autumn section of Simply in Season. I don’t know about you, but my usual way of cooking acorn squash is with {Read More}
Oh, the lovely Swiss Chard. When I first started joining CSAs four years ago, the greens often went to waste. There were only so many I could chop for scrambled eggs. The second year, we split a share and I usually gave them to our share-ers. After cooking them for-ever, my friend decided they hated greens. Then, this year, I took a “cooking with greens” class at my new CSA. Knowledge is definitely power. I discovered that you can substitute {Read More}
