What to eat that's fresh from the farm?
Eating fresh foods from your local area is a great way to improve your health, the local economy, and the environment. Here are some ideas for thing to eat year round.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecan Topping - Pie that counts as a vegetable.
So here's my version of Pie that Counts as a Vegetable, or otherwise known as:
Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecan Topping
3 cups cooked, mashed sweet potatoes (somewhere between 3 smallish sweets or 1 very large one)
2 eggs
2 Tbs melted coconut oil (or butter)
3 Tbs honey (or maple syrup)
1 tsp vanilla
Mix all this together, and put into a shallow casserole dish.
Topping:
1/4 cup butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup quick oats or rolled oats
1 cup chopped pecans
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Cut in the butter with brown sugar, cinnamon, and oats. Stir in the pecans.
Sprinkle topping evenly over the sweet potato mixture.
Bake 30 minutes at 350.
In case you wonder what happens if you use purple sweet potatoes....
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Butternut Casserole
Butternut Casserole
nutmeg
It's mildly sweet, and a perfect fall side dish.
Friday, July 28, 2023
Quick Caprese Salad
I've given you the Traditional Caprese Salad Recipe. This is the quick version, and honestly, it's the one I usually use.
Quick Caprese Salad
- 2 # of a variety of excellent homegrown tomatoes
- 12 oz. fresh mozzarella balls
- fresh basil
- really good olive oil
- balsamic glaze
- fresh ground salt and pepper.
Slice or chunk the tomatoes (if you have grape or cherry tomatoes, you don't even have to do that). Put the tomatoes in your serving
dish, and sprinkle some salt on them. Chop the basil (which is really easy with herb scissors). Add the basil and mozzarella balls to the tomatoes. Toss lightly. Drizzle with lots of olive oil and balsamic glaze. Add pepper and salt to taste.
Sunday, September 4, 2022
Rebaked Potatoes
I used to have a copy of Mollie Katzen's The Enchanted Broccoli Forest book. It was one of my favorite cookbooks. I've been looking for her recipe for Rebaked Potatoes. I have found a recipe that's similar, but not exactly what I remember. So I'm writing down what I did, so I'll at least have a starting point next time I try to make it. And with any luck, The Enchanted Broccoli Forest will magically reappear on my shelves, so I don't have to guess again.
Rebaked Potatoes
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Overrun with broccoli? Craving something cheesy? Try this Broccoli Cheddar Soup.
Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Friday, May 27, 2022
Red Simmered Chicken Wings
This is my oldest son's favorite recipes when he was growing up. It is the easiest meal in the world to make. Just start some rice, start the chicken wings, and stir-fry whatever vegetables are handy as a side dish. A three course meal in under an hour.
Red Simmered Chicken Wings
Ingredients
- 4 # chicken wings cut into sections (save the tips for making chicken stock, if you are cutting the wings yourself)
- 4 scallions, cut in 1" slices on the diagonal
- 1/2 C soy sauce
- 1/2 C sherry
- 1 C water
Method
- Put wings, soy sauce, sherry, and water in a pot
- Bring to a boil
- Reduce the heat. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes
- Uncover and add the scallions
- Simmer, uncovered, for 20 minutes more, stirring frequently to make sure each of the wings is uniformly cooked in the yummy sauce.
Many versions of this recipe call for brown sugar, but I have never made it with the sugar, and I'm pretty sure it isn't necessary.
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Chocolate Chip Cookes with Honey!
I grew up eating chocolate chip cookies made with honey. They were sweet, soft, and oh so delicious fresh out of the oven. I was surprised to find out that other people thought that Toll House cookies were good.
Now, I like both kinds.
This is a recipe that my grandmother found during WWII rationing. They could get honey, but sugar was definitely harder to get.
We always doubled the recipe.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Cream butter
- Add honey and egg. Beat
- Sift dry ingredients together and add to mixture
- Stir in chips and vanilla
- Blend well
- Chill
- Drop by spoonfuls onto cookie sheet
- Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes