by Josie | Oct 2, 2024 | Apples, Cheese, Citrus, Gluten Free, Herbs, Salad Dressing, Salads, Seeds, Vegan Option, Vegetarian, Vinaigrettes
This is a fall or winter salad that you’ll love, whether you’re a kale fan or not! Simply massaging the dressing into the kale for one or two minutes, tenderizes the leaves and gives them a beautiful glisten. The crisp apples, crunch of pepitas, sweet...
by Josie | Sep 17, 2024 | Bacon, Cheese, Citrus, Cooking, Dairy, Greens, Herbs, Hors d'oeuvres, Recipes, Salad Dressing, Salads, Sides, Vinaigrettes
It’s pear season and our two trees have out-produced themselves again this year. We have a young tree, one we bought five years ago. We thought our 75 year old tree would have fallen over by now, so the new tree was to take the place of the older tree. The old...
by Josie | Aug 22, 2024 | Chicken, Citrus, Freezer Friendly, Herbs, Meatballs, Noodles, Pesto, Recipes, Soup, Zucchini
This is a good meal to catalog into the start of the school year. Thunder and lightening darkened our gorgeous summer skies yesterday evening causing concerts to be canceled, emergency warnings of quarter-sized hail in parts of the county, flooding streets and me...
by Josie | Aug 7, 2024 | Citrus, Herbs, Noodles, Pasta, Pesto, Recipes, Vegetarian
This made me happy. We grow a lot of basil every year. Rows and rows of basil that primarily go into pestos and sauces. This year was tough. We lost almost all our basil in early June. The rain just pounded down on the delicate plants and many of them had to be...
by Josie | Aug 5, 2024 | Cheese, Chilis, Citrus, Condiments, Corn, Dairy, Food History, Gluten Free, Herbs, Recipes, Salads, Sides, Spices, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Option
About this time of year we start putting esquites on rotation for summer meals. Esquites is a fresh corn salad or condiment that has all the fabulous flavor and ingredients of Mexican street corn (elote’) which is served grilled on the cob with queso fresco and...
by Josie | Jul 29, 2024 | Gluten Free, Heirloom Tomatoes, Herbs, Recipes, Salad Dressing, Sides, Vegan, Vegetarian
I love making dressings from fresh ingredients. This tomato thyme dressing is a favorite and serves as a beautiful enhancement to not only salad ingredients, but as a drizzle of flavor for eggs on toast, grilled meats, on a charcuterie board, on burgers ~ and more....
