18 vegetarian winter squash main dishes for all through Autumn and Winter. They're not just for Thanksgiving! "What's your favorite winter squash?" I posed this question on my Facebook page recently, and got a huge response. Readers listed everything from the familiar, like butternut squash, to the wildly unfamiliar, like sweet meat and onion squash. As a result, now I want to find them and red kuri squash, to see how it might be different from the rest. Thanks to that informal polling, ...
Weekly Vegetarian Menu #2 – 5 Easy Vegetarian Dinners
I've been in Yosemite most of this week, and so haven't been able to complete photography on a couple of new recipes I want to bring to you. In the meantime, here's another Weekly Vegetarian Menu of dinner ideas for the next week. If your week next week looks as busy as mine promises to be, you won't always have the time you'd like to cook up something healthy. I get it. In answer to that, this selection is focused on easy dinners! As I mentioned last week, I scour blogs I enjoy for recipes I ...
Crunchy Kale and Apple Salad with Thai Peanut Butter Dressing
Crunchy winter salad of kale, Napa cabbage, apples, and honey roasted peanuts all dressed in a fabulous Thai peanut butter dressing. This post is part of The Food Network's #ComfortFoodFeast series on their blog, FNDish........ Some salads are all about the salad, and the dressing is just along for the ride. But sometimes, the salad is all about the dressing. This is one of those. The unassuming sauce you see in the jar is a peanut butter dressing, and may look a little drab, but trust me - ...
Hash Browns Poutine Cups with Egg Scramble
You will love these poutine inspired hash browns cups stuffed with avocado scrambled eggs and cheese curds. They are great for breakfast or brunch! Do you poutine? Do you know what poutine is? Confession – I didn’t, so don’t feel uninformed if you don’t. I love the word – it makes me feel oh-so-fluent in French. ‘Voulez vouz poutine?’ Wikipedia, first on the list of search results, informed me that poutine is a popular Canadian fast food dish of French fries, cheese curds, and ...
Butternut Squash Panzanella Salad with Apples and Kale
Make an autumn version of a traditional Italian salad with this butternut squash panzanella salad tossed with apples and kale, dressed with an apple vinaigrette. I spent much of September in Italy attending an Italian language school in Treviso, a smallish town outside Venice. For 2 1/2 weeks I ate a ton of pasta, pizza, risotto, and tiramisu (a dessert created by a restaurant in Treviso). The trip was about language, food, and people -- meeting local Italians and making new friends with fellow ...
Curried Cauliflower & Greens Mac and Cheese: #ComfortFoodFeast
Curried cauliflower folded into a mac and cheese casserole along with a handful of kale. This week's theme for Food Network’s #ComfortFoodFest is Mac and Cheese. I grew up on Stouffer's Mac 'n Cheese, and before that, Swanson's TV dinners (yes, I know that probably slams me into a particular age bracket), but as an adult, I've learned that Mac and Cheese is actually a sprawling family of cousins. Some are super-rich creamy-cheesy, others are more about the ...
Spaghetti Squash with Shrimp, Pears and Kale
Spaghetti squash tossed with shrimp, pears, and kale. Whenever I scan food photo porn sites and Pinterest (which is embarrassingly often), I'm bombarded with temptation. Pumpkin cakes with cream cheese frosting, salted caramel sheet cakes, pumpkin toffee cookies, pecan cheesecake pie, and Reese's cake bars, all dressed up like a gang of girls ready to party, taunt me from my computer screen. "C'mon Wimpy, get those fancy plates out and let's have some fun together. You can cheat on your kale ...
Gluten-Free Mexican Street Corn Fritters
Twist on Mexican street corn: Gluten-free corn and zucchini fritters using corn flour topped with a mango and avocado salsa. These little guys totally rock for a small, summertime dinner party. Just throw the batter together a few hours ahead (although it doesn't have to be made that far in advance), cover the bowl with some plastic, and bring it back out 30 minutes before you plan to cook up the fritters. Just be sure to bring the batter to room temperature for an even cooking. Form ...
Warm Ricotta Farro Salad with Grilled Kale & Plums
Hearty warm farro salad of ricotta and blue cheeses melted into the cooked grain, topped with balsamic grilled kale and plums. Sorry to be MIA lately. I’ve been busy pursuing a PhD in ‘Downsizing Homes’. I had considered writing my thesis on “Living with Tiny Bedrooms, Closets, Storage & No Garage’ or ‘Surprises After Buying a 100 Year Old House” (I now have loads of recent research data for either), but settled on “Moving Into a Small Kitchen”. It’s been a challenging program, but I ...
