Recipes
We love sharing our favorite recipe development adventures with you! Our approach may be a little different than most bloggers, as we’re constantly tweaking and adjusting our recipes to suit our taste or to make them suitable for a variety of diets. We use this blog to note what we like and don’t like and where we plan to make adjustments in the future. So if you try something and have a suggestion, please let us know!
Lentil Soup with Smoked Sausage and Basil
We're full into Fall here, with a sudden change in the weather bringing cold nights and frosty mornings, and today... rain. Yay! Rain! We need it here in California, and I love it. But the best thing about rainy, chilly days is soup. Yes, soup. I love soup, but...
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Low-carb Persimmon Pancakes
Always looking for more ways to use our fuyu persimmon harvest, we adapted our low-carb pumpkin pancake recipe to use Fuyu persimmons. These are fluffy and delicious, with a nice bit of spice perfect for an autumn breakfast.
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Quick and Easy Chana Masala
Chana Masala is one of my favorite Indian dishes, but until recently I had never tried making it. I don't know why we haven't explored Indian cuisine more... I guess it seemed complicated to me in some way. And then there's the issue that I have no idea what I'm...
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Quick Lemon Orzo with Spinach, Feta and Dill
Faced with a big bag of spinach and a couple lemons that needed to be used, like today, as well as some chicken stock in the fridge, I noodled on how we might combine these for dinner. Bonus that we also had an open container of orzo and some feta too. While I...
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Spinach Salad with Fuyu Persimmon and Pomegranate Seeds
It's that wonderful time of year here in California when persimmons and pomegranates are ripening on the trees, so we're taking advantage of the bounty to enjoy them in lots of fall and winter salads. Our persimmon tree did it again this year, and was so overloaded...
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Campanelle Pasta with chard, mushrooms and ham
We love pasta! And I'm so glad we're not currently doing the low-carb keto thing so that pasta is an option, especially for a Friday night when I have cooked all week, have a fridge full of produce, and no true inspiration or energy to cook anything complicated. So...
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Roasted Tomatillo Salsa
This is my absolute favorite salsa! I just love the combination of the sweetness of the roasted tomatillos, the bite of the serranos, and the freshness of the cilantro and lime. I now grow all these in my garden (or try to grow them at least) just so I have a good...
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Favorite Tomato Bruschetta
Sometimes simple is best, especially when we're talking about simply using the best of the season in a way that brings out and highlights the flavor of each ingredient With a load of tomatoes and fresh basil coming in from our CSA as well as the garden, we've been...
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Peach and Nectarine Salsa
I'm always so excited for our peaches and nectarines to ripen, but after the cobblers, pies, and a few peach milkshakes, I'm ready to use them for something more savory. This salsa is a great way to use extra fruit when you need an accompaniment for grilled meats or...
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Sun-dried Tomato Spread
Our close-knit group of friends enjoy regular get-togethers... of course now it's within socially distancing guidelines. We gather outside, and fortunately, we all have large outdoor spaces where we can remain close enough to converse, but still 6 feet away. So for a...
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Roasted Beet and Goat Cheese Salad
Roasted beet salad is one of my absolute favorite things to order whenever we're at out at a good farm-to-table type restaurant. Love roasted beets with fresh greens and a bit of goat cheese, herbs and other fresh and lovely things. So I was very ridiculously excited...
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Best and Easiest Biscuits Ever
OK, I don't usually make claims like this, but for me, I find this recipe to be the absolute easiest way to make the most delicious, flaky, light and lovely biscuits. Since biscuits aren't in our normal "we're trying to eat healthy" regimen, when we do decide to throw...
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