by Toni | Dec 18, 2022 | Come Home, Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Meat Masterpieces
There are many ways to make shepherd’s pie, most of them quite humble since this was originally a peasant dish, not an aristocratic one. Traditional recipes use lamb (which I am doing here) and a white potato mash for topping. Yep…meat and potatoes, that’s about...
by Toni | Nov 13, 2016 | Green Decisions, Let's Eat, Vegetables
I love sweet potatoes. Roast them, steam them, puree them—any way you fix them, it’s fine with me. Well, just don’t candy them. What! No marshmallows? No maple syrup? No brown sugar? No. You see, I was not always the great fan of sweet potatoes that I am today. When I...
by Toni | Jan 17, 2016 | Let's Eat, Vegetables
Like salads, soups provide an easy way, in my opinion, to get great nutrition and taste in one healthy package. Further, soups are one of my favorite foods to prepare because they are almost always make-ahead, ingredient-flexible, easy to reheat, many times freezable...