Makes enough for 4 for taco dinner. About 2 cups. ½ cup chopped cilantro½ cup diced onion (about 1 medium sized)1 cup diced green tomatoes4 jalapeños and/or habañeros diced (¼ cup) – red/orange peppers do well here for added colorJuice from 1 lime (1 tablespoon)1 teaspoon saltsalt and black pepper to taste Dice up green tomatoes and place in colander over sink. Add in 1 teaspoon of salt and stir. Allow to sit. Chop cilantro and onion and place in…
Makes enough for 1 good sized serving. ½ cup oats½ cup water¾ cup coconut milk2 ½ teaspoons miso + 1 tablespoon water Any toppings you desire: I used a 7 minute hard boiled egg, black sesame seeds (kuro goma), pickled ginger (kizami shoga), and sunflower sprouts Combine oats,water, and coconut milk in a sauce pan over medium heat. Allow mixture to cook for 10 minutes stirring every 30 seconds or so to make sure nothing sticks to the bottom. Combine miso with…
[Jump to the recipe by clicking here] [Jump to my fodmap diet update by clicking here] I am obsessed with almond flavored baked goods. If I had to pick only one pastry/baked good to eat for the rest of my life it would probably be an almond croissant. But right now I am not eating wheat grains or lactose which means I can’t splurge on one for days like Valentine’s Day where I used to celebrate with fun treats. As a result I decided to come…
[Don’t want to read about the diets? – Jump to the recipe by clicking here] If you follow food people on Instagram in January you are probably very aware of the #Whole30 craze going on right now. You can read more about it here, but the Whole30 is a 30-day “reset” program to get your body inflammation down. Now I have issues with it, and started to write my reasons until I realized some other bloggers did the same. Plane,…
[Jump to Recipe] I am a sucker for old cookbooks. Well not just cookbooks, also old gardening, house, picture, or etiquette books too; any book that contains old knowledge. Anytime I go to a garage or estate sale I always make a b-line to the shelves. I picked up The French Chef in Private American Families by Xavier Raskin, published in 1922, in a used book store a couple years ago for $10 and I am so happy I did….
[Jump to Recipe] The CSA has broadened my cooking horizons immensely. I get excited about certain produce I never thought would excite me before. The produce that falls in this category are greens of plants you usually don’t see in the produce section of the grocery store: cauliflower, broccoli, radish, turnip, and carrot greens. I don’t remember ever seeing carrot tops growing up. I must have, my mom planted carrots a few times, but I really only remember the topless ones…
[Jump to Recipe] It was the first CSA (community supported agriculture) of the year from Isabelle Farms yesterday (2 weeks ago, I didn’t get this post out before vacation, sorry!) and I could not be more excited. Joining a CSA really appeals to me for many reasons: It is organic; I feel part of the community participating in it and love driving to the farm and picking up the produce. This one I don’t actually have to work on the…
[Jump to Recipe] About two months ago my husband and I decided to add more vegetables to our diet. We were already pretty good but felt we needed to jumpstart it. And thus, we joined the green smoothie craze! Morning smoothies are not a new thing for me. My mom has made them, for as far as I can remember, every morning of my entire life. I always marveled, in both a good and a bad way, at what she could…
[Jump to Sweet and Spicy Sesame Miso Dressing Recipe] [Jump to Crispy Tofu Recipe] [Jump to Assembling the Salad] This is my first year growing spinach or, I should say, successfully growing spinach. Greens have always been my achilles heal when gardening. I plant them too late or in too much sun and they just bolt and get bitter on me. I hoped to learn from my mistakes here in Colorado and planted them in mass earlier and then transplanted…
[Jump to Recipe] I don’t have a yard here and grow all of my herbs and edible flowers in pots and planters on the patio. One of these herbs is rosemary, a perennial herb that spent the winter under a grow light inside. It is now spring and time for the rosemary to head back out. Rosemary is a plant that can be hard pruned back at the end of winter/beginning of spring. This helps the plant fill out and be…