Recipe for Eggs Poached in Curried Tomatoes with Quinoa

This is one of our favorite meals – wonderful for breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner.  I like it on busy nights because it’s simple, quick, and I always have the ingredients on hand. (I’m loving quick, nutritious, and delicious meals since school started!)
I can’t poach eggs…
I’ve wanted to post this versatile dish for so long [...]

Black Bean Chili with Butternut Squash & Swiss Chard Recipe

This chili made our Top 10 list – gluten free, sugar free, frugal, hearty, and full of spicy-sweetness.   It’s the perfect dish to share for January’s Gluten Free Progressive Dinner Party hosted by Diane from The W.H.O.L.E. Gang.
Shirley from Gluten Free Easily is also serving up a delicious and light winter dish today.  Stop by [...]

What’s to Come at SS&GF in 2010

When I started blogging, it was simply a creative outlet that gave me some relief from a job I didn’t enjoy.  I had no idea that it would turn into a love affair woven with meaningful friendships, daily education, and a constant challenge to better myself in the kitchen, as a writer, and as a [...]

Green Smoothie Recipe

Green smoothies have become a staple in my daily diet – at first out of necessity.  Today I wouldn’t want to go without one.  I experienced severe digestive issues for quite some time.  After trying the more conventional recommendations of eating more fiber, more whole grains, acidophilus, and increased water intake with no success I [...]

Kale Chips

I love greens of all kinds…spinach, mustard greens, turnip greens, kale, romaine, cabbage.  They’re part of my everyday diet.  I like them raw, steamed, sauteed, pureed, in smoothies.  So when I read about kale chips at Dinner with Julie and then got a huge bunch of fresh kale in my CSA distribution from this fine [...]