Mushroom Pasta with Shaved Vegetables
A simple pasta dish made with farmers market mushrooms and ribbons of shaved zucchini, summer squash and carrots. Weeknight meal, quick and delicious!
Summer Lentil Salad
Lentil salad is such a simple and colorful summer dinner. French green lentils also known as le Puy lentils are a must because they hold their shape when cooking. The brown or regular green or red lentils can turn mushy when cooked and not ideal for lentil salad. They are a great source of plant based protein and fiber.
Quinoa, Black Bean and Mango Salad
This lime spiked summer salad is so very refreshing in this hot weather. Quinoa is an ancient grain known for being gluten free and a complete source of protein. Combined with the black beans, this salad has plenty of protein and fiber for the vegetarian or omnivores alike.
Lentil Soup - Simple, Comforting, and Healthy
The cure for all that ails you - I have worked on perfecting this soup over several iterations. It is rich and hearty and the vitamins are just leaping out of the bowl at you.
Chicken Curry Bowl
Deep curry flavors heighten humble chicken thighs in this easy weeknight dish...
Steamed Artichokes with a Garlic Aioli
I found these purple beauties in my market and remembered how much I loved eating steamed artichokes as a kid. We would dip the leaves in drawn butter before running them through our teeth. Half the pleasure in eating them was the fun.
Simple Collard Greens
Southerners just love their collard greens. As a new transplant to North Carolina, have learned a lot about their unique regional foods, collards being one of them….
Whole Wheat Irish Soda Bread
This is crazy good soda bread and we often eat it right out of the oven with a smear of salted butter or a drizzle of local honey. Mike is the bread maker in the family and he usually makes this on a weekend, never lasting the day, especially if our kids are home.
Cilantro Hemp Seed Pesto
A simple and refreshing pesto that is creamy and flavorful is my latest favorite to dollop on most anything… roasted vegetables, fish, tacos, bowls and corn on the cob. A nut free and dairy free condiment made with a few simple ingredients of cilantro, hemp seeds, garlic, jalapeño and olive oil.
Butternut Squash and Roasted Chickpea Salad with fresh Pomegranate
I never make the same salad twice, so salad recipes are more of an inspiration of flavor combinations than a specific guide…
Homemade Stock made with Vegetable Scraps
This simple homemade vegetable stock is very sustainable and its rich flavor really makes it worth the little effort.
Roasted Butternut Squash and Apple Curry Soup
This is my all-time favorite winter soup. I love the combination of sweet from the apples and umami flavors from the curry and squash.
Curry Spiced Chickpea Stew
A vegetarian stew that is full of flavor and easily adapted to what you have in your refrigerator…
