Festivities for the Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year, Spring Festival, or Tet if you’re Vietnamese, begin two weeks prior to the official day. As you can imagine, there are many traditions involved in a centuries old celebration. Many old school traditions are still observed, but “thanks to a nearly 50-year Communist-mandated freeze, […]
Veggies
Autumn Apple, Quinoa and Butternut Squash Salad
Apples = Autumn to me. The signs are everywhere – the days are cooler, evening settles in sooner, and kids are back in school. It must be apple season. One of the earliest cultivated fruits, the apple has come a long way from its crabapple-like ancestors. Careful cultivation has transformed those original small, sour apples into large, […]
Butternut Squash GF Pizza and a #PizzaParty
Does your family do a Friday night or Game Day Pizza Party? It’s a fun way to end a hectic week and have an all-ages party to welcome the weekend. Make our buy pizza dough, have a spread of all the fixin’s and get everyone in the kitchen making their own pizza. I do this […]
Hatch Chiles Morning, Noon, and Night
Hatch Chiles are all the rage! Seriously, you can find a delicious way to eat them, for breakfast, lunch or dinner – and, if you haven’t tried them, you simply must experience them while you can. The season for these unique tasting chiles named from the original growing area in Hatch, New Mexico is short […]
Purple Power: Eggplant, Hatch Chile and Roasted Tomatoes
Eat the colors of the rainbow, super foods are not limited to green, yellow, orange, and red. But also, the cooler colors of the rainbow: blue and purple. Blueberries are loaded with antioxidants and the same compounds that put blueberries on the healthy map as a superfood are what make make purple vegetables like eggplant […]
The Fully Loaded Baked Potato
When I say “loaded baked potato” probably the first image that comes to mind is a piping hot, fluffy Idaho russet potato loaded with butter, bacon bits, sprinkled with chives and topped with a dollop of sour cream and maybe a handful of shredded cheddar cheese for good measure. Sooo good, but sooo bad at […]
Only the Best with Melissa’s Produce Home Delivery
Another in my #GetYourGreensOn series, the first step in incorporating more vegetables in your diet is to buy them! But carving out time to shop, making a list, knowing how to select the best of the lot, being disappointed because the market doesn’t have what you need for that recipe you had in mind – […]
Red to Remember: World AIDS Day
This is for Angela and for everyone who has had a loved one die from AIDS. Angela, the talented food writer and gentle spirit behind Spinach Tiger, has organized Red To Remember Blogging Event for World AIDS Day because she wants to remember. Remember her beloved brother and cousin who succumbed to AIDS within a year of […]
15 Stress-less Sides for Thanksgiving
Wow! I feel like it was only yesterday that we said goodbye to the ghouls and goblins of October, but with Thanksgiving next week it’s time to get serious about the menu for the most anticipated and calorie-busting meal of the year. Armed with an arsenal of easy whole food side dish recipes, you can […]
Election Day and a Creamy Cauliflower Casserole
Originally published during the 2012 Presidential election, this comforting cauliflower casserole will satisfy your appetite and please your palate as you listen to election returns to find out who will be our next President and put an end to this most divisive campaign. Jump to Recipe The year-long onslaught of political advertisements, maligned mudslinging, and […]