Creamy Orzo, Artichoke & Spinach Bake
At 6.30am on Saturday we packed up our cars and left the comfort of home for a very long day ahead. First stop – Green City Market.
Tag: Simple Dishes
Turkish Red Lentil & Bulgur Soup
the zen of slow cooking heads East to Turkey this week to champion grains and lentils in a fiber dense, nutrient rich soup.
American Buffalo Chicken Salad
Meg carefully dissected Steve’s curated spending note books from his college days last week (click here to read if you missed it) which leads us to this months theme – recipes designed with a $20 budget in mind to suit college students and families cooking for friends.
Halibut, Fingerling Potatoes & Bay Spiced Citrus Butter
It’s almost 3 weeks since we crept across Sagamore Bridge onto Cape Cod and into another world. The only intermission during the previous two day roadtrip from Chicago was a brief spectacular, soggy and sonorous boat trip in the Niagara Gorge at Niagara Falls.
Katie’s Balsamic Chicken
The second installment from our favorite cookbook and blog authors comes from Katie Morford of Moms Kitchen Handbook.
Tropical Coconut Mango Rice Pudding
While Meg was busy packing Doug up for college I packed for the beach and headed to the East Coast. With the absence of a slow cooker on our travels, ahead of time, I chose 3 super simple recipes to squeeze out the last few …read more
So Simple Greek Chicken & Giveaway
Fun and unexpected – a summary of last weekend’s camping at Devil’s Lake, WI. The unexpected came in the form of Saturday night dinner of spear fished bass straight from the lake. We also hadn’t bargained for Timber Rattlesnake sightings either. The boys filleted the fish while sitting …read more
Warm Beet Salad, Thyme & Tahini
Week 3 of summer break and metaphorically speaking we’re juggling Grandma, summer camp and work schedules.
Glazed, Buttered Carrots & Fennel Seed
Dried and fresh herbs are suitable in different ways for slow cooking. Rather than using one as a substitute for the other I use dried during the cooking process for flavor and perk up the final dish with the addition of aromatic fresh herbs.
Chipotle Rubbed Salmon Tacos
In the early days of getting to know my slow cooker, I understood it to be the fix-it-& forget-it gadget which favors meat based all day cooking recipes. But Meg and I discovered that it can accomplish so much more.
Fennel Soup with Black Olive Oil from Sweet Paul
“Recently there has been something of a vegetable boom. It started in the fifties with Elizabeth David, who championed vegetables in their own right, not just as adjuncts to meat.” I concur with Jane Grigson’s sentiments in the introduction to the first edition of her Vegetable …read more
Salt & Pepper Flank Steak & Chimichurri Sauce
I was free to putter around in my community garden last Sunday, on a scheduled but very relaxing “annual work day.” It was the perfect pairing of purging and planting. I’m committed to growing my own, organically, in support of Earth Day every day.
