Savory Cooking

Preserving summer’s amazing heirloom tomatoes this month? Don’t toss those beautiful, flavor-rich tomato skins! Instead, use them to make homemade heirloom tomato salt with freshly dried basil.

As you might have gleaned from the content on the blog as of late, I’m a salad girl. A salad-lovin’ home gardener. Almost everything I …

Tender, healthier oven fried shrimp tops ramen noodles with a deeply flavorful Thai coconut sauce. A certain sit-down seafood restaurant chain that shall remain nameless …

With unofficial summer just weeks away, this is the time of year when eggs become a true mealtime friend. Any meal. All meals. With farm …

Some flavors were just meant to be together. Tomatoes and basil. Avocado and lime. Oh! Tomatoes, basil, avocado and lime. Com’on, Summer! But two flavors …

This was one of those great little quirky weekends. Beeeyootiful weather. Like, awesome sunshine, totally-can’t-remember-the-46″-of-winter-snow, perfect temps weather. I spent lots of time in the …

Celebrate the start of summer food holidays with with a colorful Cinco de Mayo bowl filled with spicy shrimp and a zesty mango salsa. I …

It’s still early spring here in the Midwest — or is it late winter, given we had a car-covering snowfall Tuesday morning? — but I …

It’s probably not entirely kosher for a vegetable gardener to admit this, but, if given my druthers, I’d skip over spring harvest cooking entirely and …

You might have noticed from this blog that I don’t post a lot of desserts here. Peeps go crazy for desserts. But, I just don’t …

Fast food at home is one of my favorite meals, and when you substitute veggie patties with the classic red meat in veggie burger sliders, you’re land on the healthier side, too. And who knew picnic food could be so darn cute!

Creole spiced shrimp, fresh vegetables, and herbs top this ramen noodle bowl with a luscious guacamole sauce.

Healthy, hearty, and tasty, this beautiful broccoli cauliflower soup has no cheese but tons of flavor, and glows like sunshine, thanks to a nice dose of turmeric.

Oh, risotto. Loved by all, feared by many. There’s just something about that stirring thing that sends folks right over the edge. It’s like parallel …

Thai flavors infuse this weeknight-worthy chickpea stew with chicken, served over brown rice. Stews have topped my list this year for favorite dinner meals. As …

The classic favorite gets a boost of flavor and texture in this rich and creamy tomato tortellini soup. Jump to Recipe There are many soups …

Nothing makes for a lovelier winter’s weekend that curling up with a book full of soup recipes — and a big mug of homemade creamy …

I don’t know what it is about this autumn, but I can tell already that it’s going to be a big-time soup winter. The weather …