by Toni | Jul 16, 2021 | Be Simple, Let's Eat, Vegetables
I can’t think of a more quintessential summer pastime than a cool dip in a favorite swimming hole, can you? Of course, the dip here is about eating, not swimming. Although, the recipe makes a nice poolside snack, I do believe. This post is sort of an atonement, as...
by Toni | Sep 24, 2018 | Let's Eat, Vegetables
Remember Z’hug? Last year I found this really cool recipe in FEAST Magazine—one of my local favorite publications. The author introduced us to this herbal, pungent and hot condiment called Z’hug, and I couldn’t wait to give it a go. The trouble was, it...
by Toni | May 22, 2018 | Let's Eat, Vegetables
It shows up on every picnic table, summer buffet and patio party in America during the summer: Broccoli Salad. Even people—like my husband—who turn up their noses to this healthy vibrant green brassica in any other dish, will eat this salad. I believe it has something...
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...
by Toni | Aug 13, 2015 | Let's Eat, Vegetables
Now that the garlic scapes have, well…. escaped the market, what’s next? Fresh garlic, of course! But fresh garlic is not the garlic you might be used to: fresh from the soil, its skin is moist and white with beautiful purple veins. And it is fragile. Unlike its aged...
