Spiced Toasted Pumpkin Seeds Use these seeds to garnish Curried Butternut Squash and Apple Soup, stir into oatmeal or add a kick to salads. Makes 1 cup Ingredients 1 cup shelled pumpkin seeds 1/2 teaspoon chili powder salt and pepper to taste 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil Directions …
I can feel summer winding itself down. The sun is a touch lower in the sky, it gets darker a little earlier each day and those crickets. Nonstop noise. This year (be gone 2020!) has been nothing short of anxiety provoking, mind numbing and tiring. When things start to overwhelm …
Summer Fresh Tomato Basil Sauce is here! Right around this time I start complaining that I have “too many” tomatoes, but secret be told, I like it when my garden gives me too much and I have to figure out how to get creative. Seasonal is everything to me, you …
Waxing poetic about my garden never gets old. Take a look back at my old posts and you’ll see that I have been writing at this time of the year about the many uses for zucchini, yellow squash and cucumbers. They are as abundant in my garden this year as …
My garden has been my therapy and not just during the Corona pandemic, but for the last couple of decades. I was talking with my twins the other day, who are now officially adults at 21 (!), and as I usually do, marveling at the difference in personalities. I find …
Through all the craziness of the Corona virus, and the state of the world in general, I have been handed a gift this season. My garden has been rewarding me with the most delicious greens, of all kinds. Tending to my garden this season has been especially important for me. …
Are we going on 11 weeks of Corona? We’ve gone through a lot, haven’t we? Shock, grief, disbelief, fear, anxiety, what it really means to “shelter in place” (a phrase most of us have never heard of before), the cooking, the baking, the masks, the lack of basics, like toilet …
A big theme around my Corona cooking, is “using what you have” and I have learned to get creative with what is in my pantry lately. Combine that with Mark, my husband, insisting on doing all the grocery shopping…that might be for another post. In short, innovation is in order, …
Sourdough, I have learned, has its own personality and temperament. Time, temperature, the weather, my mood – it all affects how a loaf of bread will turn out. I wrote about sourdough starter and the care and keeping of it, on my Green Palette Kitchen website, and you can learn …
This soup is what all soups should be made of – the perfect combination of flavors and ingredients, not to mention plant based and so healthy. I have made a million versions of this soup in my lifetime but for some reason, today, this one stood out. Maybe because we are …
