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Because Tomato is a Fruit: salad with peaches, muffins, sorbet

Because Tomato is a Fruit: salad with peaches, muf...

I was captivated, intrigued, and a tad skeptical when I saw the bright, luscious looking page spread  devoted to Summer Peach and Tomato Salad in last month’s issue of Cooking Light (June 2010). Slight wariness notwithstanding, I couldn’t wait to try it. It’s simple and brilliantly colorful: ripe peaches, a variety of tomatoes, and thinly sliced red onion tossed with a little vinegar, honey, and a small...
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Sweet Potato Gnocchi, Sauced Four Ways

Sweet Potato Gnocchi, Sauced Four Ways

There is something highly therapeutic about making gnocchi. It’s like playing with edible play dough as an adult. Generally, except for the particular aficionado, one of the many beauties of making these little potato dumplings is that the end result need not look perfect. Like snowflakes, invariably no two are quite alike. Thus, in teacher speak, it’s the process not the product. Even better though, the product...
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Tropical Blast: Wholesome Pancakes with Caramelized Bananas

Tropical Blast: Wholesome Pancakes with Caramelize...

As if I haven’t waffled on enough about fabulously versatile, endlessly forgiving, scrumptiously winning pancakes! (Can’t resist giving in to the inner food pun nerd who begs the obvious:  get it? Waffles on about pancakes? Heehee.) Just wait until you taste these. Provided you haven’t any issues with the ingredients and essential flavors, you are going to love them! Today is the first day of summer, and...
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My New Favorite “Must Use”: Knife Shredded Greens (and Asian Fish Noodle Bowl)

My New Favorite “Must Use”: Knife Shre...

So, we’re attempting some new “crops” in our small but generous raised beds this year, and I’m learning by necessity about thinning. You know that feeling of arrival that is borderline bittersweet with the realization that the eager anticipation is about to end? I’m not necessarily talking about achieving a hard-earned goal, or even being mid-way through a much longed-for vacation. It’s...
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Product: Training’s a Breeze with These Bars

Product: Training’s a Breeze with These Bars

It’s summer, and with teaching-time on hold, I’m so excited about making small steps towards my goal of achieving a diet as minimally processed, within reason, as possible. I’ve been eagerly making mental lists of big ambitions designed for this aim: I’ve been picturing myself baking beautiful loaves of wholesome breads, and lovingly preparing Sunday roast chickens, slicing the bulk for weekday...
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Fruity Rainbow Slaw

Fruity Rainbow Slaw

There’s something about slaw…the way even the word alone just slips off your tongue, giving little away as to its true nature. It could be elfin and delightfully whimsical, or seedy and leery, a thief lurking in the shadows. And the actual concoctions called “slaw” are just as capricious, in my opinion. I seem to have a visceral reaction to the whole spectrum, for better or worse. I LOVE most Asian...
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Spring on a Plate: Roasted Squash, Bean, Potato and Pea Salad

Spring on a Plate: Roasted Squash, Bean, Potato an...

In spite of this spring’s uncooperative weather (which has vacillated temperamentally between bouts of hail, raging banshee-like winds, and everything in between), our garden is beginning to sprout! In our compact little back yard, we’ve squeezed in some added ambition this year, increasing from two to three raised beds, and finally starting composting. It’s nearly June, and having endured the quick demise...
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Christmas in May Muffins: Whole Wheat Gingerbread Pear

Christmas in May Muffins: Whole Wheat Gingerbread ...

Colorado weather is fickle, unpredictable, at times volatile. Yet year after year we take it for granted that it’s going to be warm and sunny when we need it to be, and the state does boast approximately 300 days of annual sunshine, after all. This month though, I’ve felt more like we were back living in England, with thought-provoking cloud cover, steady rain and drizzle, and even snow…in May! Although the...
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