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Favorite recipes for creating and preserving vibrant food. Views to my sweet life too. 

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Lemon Pasta with Shallots

Lemon juice and lemon zest in angel hair pasta is basic, after that it’s ingredients of choice and a bit of technique. This is stolen and...

French Lentil Salad

Green lentils are simmered in an herb bundle of thyme, rosemary and bay leaf, then cooled and dried before being added to other...

Best Black Bean Burgers PLUS

My Mister invented this veggie burger after trying out at least a dozen black bean burger recipes from a wide range of sources and still coming up short of absolute satisfaction. We freeze a few rounded into meatballs for serving with pasta weeks later. I am not sure what inspired him to add sweet corn and carrot, but these additions elevate this burger to oooo la la for flavor and crunch! Then he solved the difficult issue of the veggie patty holding together well by A: let

Cranberry and Pecan Pie

Easy to make, this gorgeous pie has an ideal balance of sour and sweet, a sugar cookie crust, and all the right undertones of vanilla,...

Pickled Cherry Tomatoes

Grabbed off of Pinterest, I had little faith that these would be as delicious as they were beautiful, but ooooo la la! These were a...

Black Bean Burgers with Japanese Mayo

These are the ultimate vegetarian burger without resorting to salty fake meat or mealy overly bread-crumbed patties! These are packed...

Sweet Potato and Sage Bread

This recipe is adapted from an online recipe with no origin that I can credit (or blame 😂). It is very easy to make. The bread requires...

Pickled Cranberries

Without a doubt, pickling is my favorite way to use November's seasonal cranberries. These little red pearls of pure spicy yum have...

Tuna Noodle Casserole

Tuna Noodle Casserole is classic childhood comfort food. This is true even when I choose to forget that in my huge family of the...

Roasted Pumpkin and Shallots with Rigatoni and Goat Cheese

Ripped but revised from an old Martha Stewart recipe, this has the quintessential heartiness and taste so craved in Autumn! The 2" chunks of roasted pumpkin balance with the oversized rigatoni pasta and the longways quarter slices of shallots roast up so creamy they are nearly liquid. Brown butter crisps up some sage leaves, then some pasta water joins with the goat cheese for the creamy finish. Sugar pumpkins are also called pie pumpkins. They are small, the flesh is sw

Sage: Harvesting and Freezing

I make my Vegetarian Soup Stock from October through to summer food (June), so big sprigs of fresh sage are always just plain necessary....

Creamy Fusilli with Shallots and Mushrooms

This recipe started with the Autumn Equinox. The change of season brought with it a craving for mushrooms, creaminess, pasta, garden...

Pear Custard Pie

Elegant, beautiful, delicious! And sooooo easy!!! The custard whirrs up in the blender and the entire confection comes together quickly...

Oven “Sun Dried” Tomatoes

SO much more roll your eyes back delicious than any store-bought sun dried tomato that you have EVER tasted!! Why? Farm fresh tomatoes,...

Peach Salsa

My Lake Michigan resort town, before it was a tourist vacation destination, was a lumber and fruit center, shipping to ports everywhere...

Pea and Spinach Pesto Pasta Salad (Vegan!)

This year's 4th of July fireworks party buffet had everyone oooo la laaa over our dear girl Summer's amazing pasta salad and asking for...

White Bean, Spinach and Tomato Bake

This is adapted from a Pinterest recipe, with the amount of cheese reduced, the tomato and spinach quantity increased and the white beans...

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