Author: karen

At last the fall CSA has started! I picked up my first box yesterday and it had so many awesome goodies! cherry tomatoes green beans summer squash zucchini eggplant cucumbers baby greens mix of arugula and mizuna micro greens green peppers jalapeno peppers We immediately used the cherry tomatoes in a pasta veggie saute and […]

[singlepic id=251 w=320 h=240 float=left] So I had this brilliant idea that instead of making a special separate trip to the only grocery store that sells nice healthy wraps, I’d make my own flat bread from scratch to put use for my sandwiches this week. I wanted the dough to be full of fiber but […]

One of my favorite times of the day is my lunch break. One reason is that I often make something snazzy for lunch. But another is I typically peruse my cooking reading material and try to get ideas and choose my next experiment or project. Some of what I read is print, some electronic. For […]

So I promised my coworkers lemon bars since I’m going to visit them this week. However, I got busy this weekend and ended up making them at 9pm last night. The recipe I was using comes from my grandmother and its really Lemon Pecan Bars. However I hit a couple snags when I went to […]

This weekend I realized just how much my freezer is bursting. One of the chief things consuming space is pears from the OMG pear tree. I harvested this years but still hadn’t gotten ride of all the ones I froze last year – meh. The issue with frozen pears is that if you slice them […]

[singlepic id=242 w=320 h=240 float=left] When I was home visiting family earlier this month I had the opportunity have one of my absolute favorites from childhood: red hot dogs (aka red snappers). I sure you think I’m lost my mind when I say this is something I look forward to every year. However, hot dogs […]

One of my favorite things we used to have growing up was Greek meatballs. Most of people know these as Keftedes. What makes them unique is the fact they are made with ground lamb and dried spearmint. My mom and grandmother would always fry them but I wanted a slightly healthier version. So I converted […]

One thing I often find myself making regularly is hummus. The reason? I eat it on sandwiches at lunch time pretty much every day. Its expensive if you buy it at the store and dead easy to make. So more often than not I make it. Last week I made a variation of it using […]

Made kofta kabobs and grilled veggies for dinner tonight. Only got 3/5 star rating from spouse. He said they’d be better with sauce. Like tzatziki or something, which I found interesting because I gave special care to NOT over cook them so they would be moist. My personal opinion – they were moist enough but not […]

Sometime this summer I decided that the cost of healthy frozen treats was too much and I wanted to make my own. Since then I’ve been experimenting with making various fruit bars, creamsicles and other frozen treats in the popsicle family. I bought two different types of popsicle molds made by Tovolo: one was bar […]