I never realized how valuable kitchen gadgets could be until I started blogging. Before then I was happy to have a simple set of quality pots and pans, let alone anything more elaborate like a dehydrator or food processor or high-speed blender or- you get the picture. Oh, how the times have changed! I know everyone is talking about the […]
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Roasted Tomato, Garlic & Greens Farro Salad
I fell in love with farro on one of my first visits to Chrissie Hynde’s now-defunct Akron, Ohio vegan restaurant, The VegiTerranean. Chef Scot Jones, now with Crossroads Kitchen, created a farro salad that had asparagus, roasted tomatoes, onions, and some type of bitter greens. I loved it. So when The VegiTerranean closed, I decided […]
Lemon-Dill Summer Vegetables with Creamy Polenta
There is a health food store not too far from my house that sells produce from local area farms. It’s an eclectic little place, there’s always a selection of limited batch vegetables or fruit that I’ve never seen before. This week it was elephant garlic scapes. I’ve heard of garlic scapes, but never elephant garlic […]
Grilled Corn Salsa
This all started with a beautiful set of knob onions I found at the local farmers market. Purple knob onions! Have you ever spotted a vegetable so pretty that you planned an entire meal around it? That’s exactly what I did. Most of my weekday meals are repetitive–beans, greens, and a sweet potato show up fairly […]
Vegan Candied Grapefruit Bundt Cake
My mother-in-law lives in Florida where the sun is warm and the snow is non-existent. It’s also where citrus trees are abundant. My mother-in-law has a few growing in her yard and she always brings me organic grapefruit and oranges whenever she comes to visit. I’m lucky, I know! Last week my mother-in-law came to […]