by Toni | May 22, 2018 | Be Simple, Farmer's Market, Healthy Treats, Vegetables
I will be the first to admit that I can get carried away in the kitchen—recipes with a thousand ingredients, multiple steps and endless preparation. It’s what I like to do, I guess. But I know that it isn’t for everyone… just like professional sports are not for me....
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 | May 22, 2016 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Live Green, Vegetables
Well it is nearly the end of May, but you’d never have known it last week in the Midwest. We were all “enjoying” Blackberry Winter. When I was a little girl, my grandma used to talk about Blackberry Winter because it meant a cold snap in mid-spring could jeopardize...
by Toni | Oct 16, 2015 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Live Green, Vegetables
Sometimes shopping at the farmer’s market takes a little creativity—remember Go With the Flow? You have your menu, make your list of ingredients and then you get to the market only to find that something you needed just didn’t come in this week. On the other hand,...
