I recently purchased an indoor shiitake mushroom kit. Growing mushrooms is perfect for me, because my home doesn’t get a whole lot of natural sun. I’ve harvested a couple of mushrooms and thought I’d share the pictures.
Here’s my shitake cooking recipe so far.
Ingredients
fresh shiitake mushrooms
oil or butter
Directions
Wash the mushrooms
Cut off their stalks, save for boiling [...]
Last Saturday, at the Cherry Creek Farmer’s Market, it was time. Corn dropped to 4/$1. To me, that means it’s the peak of the season and time to buy as much as I can carry home. When I was a kid, my dad and I would sit on lawn chairs in the back yard and [...]
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This recipe brings new life to potato salad, and it’s prettier too!
Ingredients:
white potatoes (1 large)
sweet potatoes (1 medium-large)
hard boiled eggs (2-3)
mayo (2-3 tbs) — I use Hain’s Safflower mayo, which is dairy-free.
brown mustard (1 tbs)
fresh chives (1 tbs)
fresh parsley (1 tbs)
capers (1 tbs)
Directions:
Peel potatoes. Cover with water, boil and cook until soft.
Drain and set aside [...]
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Tuscan white beans garnished with baby sage leaves.
Pressure cooker filled with white beans and water, with sage leaves and garlic on top. The sage is tri-colored sage from my herb garden.
Ingredients (all measurements are approximate):
White beans (1 1/2 or 2 cups)
Fresh Sage (12-15 leaves)
Garlic (5 cloves)
Parsley (1/4 cup)
Olive Oil (3 tbs)
Green Onions (2)
Lemon (1 [...]
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Modified from the recipe in the Simply Colorado cookbook. I’ve made a few recipes from this cookbook–they tend to be healthy, easy to follow, quick and well explained.
Ingredients
2-3 T flour
1 lb eggplant
3 egg whites
3 T milk
6 pieces of dry bread
butter
1 jar (26 oz) spaghetti sauce
1 1/2 c (6 oz) mozzarella cheese
Parmesan cheese
Directions
Preheat oven [...]
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One of our favorite recipes during the cooler months is my roasted new potatoes recipe. It’s simple, healthy and can be prepared quickly and best of all, everybody loves it. I serve this as a side dish to grilled cherry-chipotle chicken breasts and fresh from the garden steamed asparagus.
Roasted New Potatoes
1lb small red potatoes (may [...]
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In my quest for quick and easy dinners, I decided to stock up on Tasty Bites. Tasty Bite is a brand of prepared Indian and Thai dishes. They come in single-serve microwave-able portions (not for me! too much packaging!) or meal size boxes like below.
According to the Tasty Bite web site, these are the Tasty [...]
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This Asian side dish from epicurious.com was YUMMY! And pretty healthy as well. It is definitely getting bookmarked. I added grilled chicken on top to make a complete meal.
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Like me, many of you have probably made new year’s resolutions to get in better shape, lose weight or eat healthier. Maybe you started that, but need another boost to keep going. So I am sharing with you a food-based cleanse I have done several times called Kicharee, brought to me by a Boulder, Colorado [...]
Last night we had some friends over and I was going to make sweet potato oven fries… until the oven caught on fire. Yes, right on time for our guests to arrive, the house filed with smoke (no pictures of that). I had forgotten that I spilled some butter in the oven last week when [...]
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