Recipe for Roasted Winter Vegetables

Roasted vegetables are a favorite around here – I roast broccoli, cauliflour, carrots, radishes, onions, tomatoes.  Roasting intensifies the flavors and the vegetables actually carmelize and become slightly sweet.  And, they’re naturally sugar free and gluten free.  Gotta love that!
Since it’s Holiday Food Fest, I wanted to share with you one of our favorite ways [...]

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

There is something in me that likes to use every last bit of food – it takes skill, forethought, and lots of experience.  It’s also a practice that grounds me and brings so much gratitude for what I have.  The old adage, “Waste not, want not” has new meaning to me today.
I’m definitely not perfect [...]

Apple & Walnut Stuffed Acorn Squash – Slightly Indulgent Monday

Welcome to Slightly Indulgent Mondays – fabulous food made healthier!  Please link your healthier recipe below & check out this week’s give-away.   Instead of doing a full feature on a blogger each week, I’ve decided to share a favorite or two from the week before.  Last week there was a beautiful Cushaw Pie recipe that’s [...]

How to Peel a Butternut Squash

I thought that everyone cooked with squash – that is until I started posting about it.  So many commenters said they’d never used squash.  I asked my husband about it, and he said that before he met me he thought that squash were just for decoration.
I learn so much from the people that take the [...]

Roasted Pattypan Squash & Chickpea Salad – Locally Grown

**A couple matters of ‘business’ – first, today is the second day of Fall Festival 2009 and is being hosted at Monica at Daily Dwelling. All participants are eligible to win The Creative Family by Amanda Blake Soule.  Make sure to link your post about what you do for fall fun.  I, of course, cook.
I’m [...]