Cooking with seasonal products and the contents of your pantry
I’m sneaking in one more summer favorite as fall is (supposedly) rolling in – grilled pineapple salsa. Everything that is cooked is done so on the grill. And it can be changed up depending on what you have in your refrigerator or to your tastes.…
I’ve probably made double and triple batches of these about 5 times in the last 3 weeks. And they never last for longer than the following day. If you keep going overboard and buying too much summer squash (guilty!) or your home garden is going…
Summer squash is back at the farmers market! And we’ve been going through several pounds a week lately. Mainly, we are swapping back and forth between this salad and fritters (fritters are next on the list to post). This salad is light and refreshing, with…
Summer = fresh produce, grill, and simple yet bold flavors. The salad combines all of those things together in one delicious, satisfying salad. I used fresh, sweet corn on the cob as the base for the salad and paired it with summer squash, grape tomatoes,…
I kept calling this “pasta primavera” in my head as I was making this. But it isn’t spring. It’s fall, even though it still feels more like summer now than it did when it was actually summer. It is October! But I did manage to…
Summer veggies are still going strong in sunny California. And I’ll take them as long as I can get them. The last couple of times I have made this, the husband polished it off when I was hoping for leftovers. This time, I sauteed a…
I had some leftover peppers after making the roasted red pepper sauce and I had the intention of making stuffed peppers with them. I wasn’t sure what kind to make, and I didn’t want to go to the store, so I just went through the…
Versions of this cobbler are made often throughout the summer – when we buy so much fruit that we can’t possibly eat it all before it begins to spoil. This can be made with any combination of summer fruits you’d like. I like using a…
Now that the first post is out of the way, I can actually get started with some recipes! When my husband and I were in the early dating phase, I remember holding up a bunch of kale asking if he likes it. Neither of us…