by Toni | Jul 26, 2023 | Let's Eat, Live Green, Vegetables
Can there be any more colorful season than high summer? The flowers, the vegetables, the sunrises and sunsets. The world is golden and the Earth buzzes with busy bees as they travel from flower to flower, home to hive, and then back out to continue foraging. It is a...
by Toni | May 30, 2019 | Let's Eat, Vegetables
I have learned so much from my friends. And the less my friends are like me, the more I seem to learn…about the world, about other cultures and even about myself. That difference is valuable and necessary. And undiscovered commonalities are shared gifts. That...
by Toni | Jun 20, 2018 | Come Home, Farmer's Market, Green Decisions, Let's Eat
The idea for this flexible summer salad has a couple of inspirations. For one thing, the ingredients are primarily local to the Midwest and are available throughout late spring to early fall, more or less. For another thing, the preparation of the beets—the idea of...
by Toni | Jul 17, 2016 | Healthy Treats, Let's Eat, Vegetables
I was not always a fan of beets. It took a little green-gal bravery to introduce them into my menu. They always seemed so “earthy,” but not in a good way—more like, you know, dirt (Dirt, my gardener-daughter tells me, is an inaccurate term, anyway—“It’s soil, Mom.”)....
