Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all. -Harriet Van Horne (Vogue 1956) Is there anything more comforting than freshly baked banana bread? Growing up a friend and I would always make banana bread when we were down. We would spy each other […]
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Fall and Comfort Food
I love the fall! I love the colors, the cooler weather, the holidays but most of all the comfort food that I can make my family on cooler nights. Over the last couple of months I have been able to vacuum pack and freeze several of the vegetables that either were […]
Asparagus, Pumpkin, Rice, and Sausage soup
When my kids decide that they actually LIKE asparagus, When they are a little more adventurous for new flavors, When my husband won’t be home for dinner, When I’ve been at doctors appointments or shopping all day, When I have some left over rice and pumpkin puree in the fridge, […]
Eclectic Eggplant
Comfort food can be healthy. I admit, I love ground beef. I could use it in a hundred dishes and each one is different and homey and just yummy to me. I can’t even explain why other than possibly it wasn’t something we had much growing up? Maybe it’s like […]
Ratatouille
The secret of a good ratatouille is to cook the vegetables separately so each will taste truly of itself.” —Joël Robuchon, The Complete Robuchon The Italian pack add-on has many vegetables and herbs that can be used to make a wonderful ratatouille. When you open the herb package that is […]
Peaches ‘N Cream Plunk-it Bread
Growing up in Arkansas, my Granddad always brought a few 5-gallon buckets of peaches home for my Granny during the summer. I could never get enough of them then, and I can’t get enough of them now! In fact, I think I could eat enough peaches to make myself sick […]
Zucchini Apple Muffins
Our basket site is full of awesome volunteers. I don’t think that we can say that enough! Every once in a while someone shows up with goodies. This recipe is from one of our volunteers, Katy.
Zucchini and Carrot Muffins
I used to love to bake, but then my oven started acting weird and unpredictable, and nothing would ever bake right. I pretty much stopped. Now that I have an oven that works, though, I’m getting back to baking. And with my zucchini from Bountiful Baskets (and then zucchini from […]
Pomegranate Apple Crisp
We had a pomegranate tree in our yard at one time that produced about fifty pomegranates a year. I gave many of them to friends and neighbors. I loved sharing them because everyone had a story to tell me about pomegranates. The lady next door fed them to her […]
Mexican Lasagna
My family loves lasagna. They love Mexican (or TexMex, or whatever it is usually called these days!). What they don’t tend to love is corn tortillas, unless we do something special with them. Sometimes I turn corn tortillas into chips. Other times I want something more real.