I found a fabulous soup book at the library! New England Soup Factory Cookbook: More Than 100 Recipes from the Nation’s Best Purveyor of Fine Soup is written by a local woman who operates two restaurants in the Boston area. I’ve never heard of her restaurants, but the book looked interesting with gorgeous photos and [...]
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Whole Wheat Oat Bran Raisin Muffins
Baked some yummy healthy muffins this afternoon! I’ve been dying to try some of the recipes from the book Tate’s Bake Shop Cookbook: The Best Recipes from Southampton’s Favorite Bakery for Homestyle Cookies, Cakes, Pies, Muffins, and Breads. I found it at the library months ago, and copied a few of the recipes I wanted [...]
Freezing Raw Tomatoes
Maria, my Facebook buddy, informed me that you can indeed freeze raw whole tomatoes…awesome! I wish I knew this BEFORE picking up my CSA veggie share this week, as there was a “take as many as you can use” box of free “seconds” tomatoes that were bruised or gouged! I didn’t take any because I [...]
Fresh Roasted Tomatoes with Pasta
I had an amazing dinner tonight! I recently picked up the CSA share for the week and there was an abundance of wonderful tomatoes! I knew I had to roast some for pasta. I sliced the heirloom tomato we received, plus one roma and two slicing tomatoes, and I mixed them in a baking dish [...]
Quinoa Pasta with Raw Tomato Sauce
It’s Raw week over at the “I Heart Cooking Clubs” web site. Raw? Hmm, what kind of inventive dish could I make that’s raw? I launched the Mark Bittman “How To Cook Everything” iPhone app and searched for “raw” – the first recipe that popped up was “Linguine with Raw Tomato Sauce” – oh that [...]
Whole Wheat (fresh) Apricot Nut Bread
I bought a box of fresh local apricots the other day and I wanted to use them up, along with one overly-ripe lonely banana. Wouldn’t a nice loaf of whole wheat sweet bread would do the trick! So, I googled, and would you believe most of the apricot/banana bread recipes use “dried” apricots. These were [...]
Zucchini Onion Pecorino Gratin
I received some lovely zucchini in this week’s CSA share, and I wanted to make some more of the yummy zucchini onion pancakes, but didn’t have the time to sit and cook pancakes tonight. I needed something that could be thrown into the oven and easily baked with virtually no assistance. So, hmm, I thought, [...]
100% Whole Wheat Zucchini Bread (with Dark Chocolate, Nuts & Sunflower Seeds)
I got two larger zucchini squash this week in my CSA share and I decided to try baking a zucchini bread. To add a little extra flavor & nutrition, I tossed in wheat germ, dark chocolate, walnuts and sunflower seeds too. Yum! DH is not a fan of zucchini, and he even thought it tasted [...]
Quinoa Salad with Tomatoes, Feta, Apples & Almonds
UPDATED 2011-06-22: I just made this quinoa salad for a reunion dinner tonight. Quinoa is a very small grain, actually it’s technically not even a grain, it’s a seed, but it’s always lumped into the hearty whole grain category. It’s gluten free and fairly quick to make. It smells earthy when cooking. I found excellent [...]
