Veggie Recipes
Vegetable Recipes for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Dessert!!
Sweet Potatoes are getting a bad rap. Pay attention to the facts.
Sweet potatoes make a perfect landscape for a weekly meal. Stuffed with spinach (recipe follows) or even broccoli. "Potatoes sometimes get a bad rap for being high in carbohydrates, but sweet potatoes are packed with potassium (good for blood pressure), fiber (good...
Time to elevate underrated Celery
Try this No-Cream Celery Bisque for lunch or a dinner starter. No Cream Celery Bisque Celery Bisque offers a sublime pale green color, a deliciously creamy texture and slight celery flavor making for a special lunch or cozy first course soup. Insisting on a Yukon gold...
More Asparagus, My Favorite Spring Salad and a Smart Tart
Nicoise Salad Spring Nicoise Salad features boiled and marinated new potatoes, roasted asparagus, canned tuna and olives. Or place rows of roasted asparagus, cooked potato quarters, canned tuna, olives, grape tomatoes and chopped baby corn on a platter. Drizzle with...
Asparagus Season—A Reason to Celebrate Spring
Spring —Now is the right time. If there is one reason to eat asparagus, there might be a dozen. The flavor of asparagus is elusive to describe. Is it buttery or herbal, mellow or nutty, or delicious and surprising? Maybe all of these! The delicate taste of...
A Story about Walnuts
Did you know the botanically speaking, a nut is a fruit with a hard shell containing a single seed. The true nuts you might encounter in the produce aisle include hazelnuts and chestnuts. Many of the products sold as “culinary nuts” belong to other botanical...
Parkside, Poolside or Inside—”Cream” of Broccoli Soup To Be Sipped— Hot , Cold or Room Temp
Spring has officially sprung and my thoughts go to all foods "green"—today it's broccoli, but more particularly, broccoli stalks/broccoli stems, with added "trees" for deeper green color. I title this soup "cream" because it is a pureed soup that does not contain...
Amazing Numbers—Merci Jacques
Somewhere in the vast universe of cooking videos, I watched Jacques Pepin create 3 vegetable salads. I was riveted as I always am when watching this great man cook. But here was the shocker: the third recipe he demonstrated in the video was a Cream Dressing that...
Curious Tacos
Introducing truly unique cauliflower—roast in hot oven with pineapple and taco seasoning (scratch, of course). Fill a crunchy shell, top with shredded cheese and guacamole—Wow!! Will you miss the meat? Cauli Florettes
Fancy Cauliflower
An open-faced tart in France is called a Galette, in Italy, a Crostata, in the United States we call them a Rustic Country Tart. Whatever you call it, this one is delicious. Scratch cornmeal pie crust, thin raw cauliflower slices, diced sopressata, chopped red...
Vegetables for Breakfast—of course!
Veggie Frittata with onions, peppers, zucchini, precooked potato cubes and Alouette garlic and herbs soft cheese.