Food + Drink
Mixed Crudités with Fresh Green Goddess Dressing
Skip the traditional crudités platter this year. We are taking the crudités platter and transforming it into an elegant finger salad. The key here is to step-up your ingredients by using unlikely vegetables like thinly sliced turnips or rutabagas, tart apple slices, kohlrabi or jicama. These slightly off the vegetable platter grid are easily found at your
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Spiced Apple Pie Slab
November is peak apple season here in the south. Each year we typically trek north to the Georgia mountains and there we pay our respects to Mercier Orchards by buying our weight in bushels and pecks, and then hauling our apple loot home. On a recent cool autumn day I peaked into the freezer and
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Food + Drink
Herb Roasted Chicken Thighs with Potatoes
I was searching for a recipe to highlight the use of both fresh and dried herbs, and stumbled upon this great recipe from Elise at simplyrecipes . This recipe creates a oven dish wonder. The dish is layered with potatoes, onions, and garlic cloves, which will roast in the pan juices. The seasoned chicken thighs will roast on
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How Does My Garden Grow: Summer Basil Oil
In life there is a struggle for simplicity. We rarely achieve it. There are moments we catch glimpses, or experience short bursts that bring a full appreciation of what life might be like if we knew how to live simply. If you follow my blog you know, I feel most centered when my hands are
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Dirt to Table Experience: Roasted Butternut Squash Salad with Sriracha Lime Dressing
Contrary to popular belief butternut is a tender skinned winter squash with little tolerance for cold air. My luck with growing butternut squash has been dismal. I planted it too late, too early, and mostly ended with a lot of vine and no squash. Late last winter my fellow community gardener gave me three butternut
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Stay out of the Kitchen: Summer Gazpacho
The heat has become almost unbearable. The humidity on most days is pushing 100% along with the 100 degrees F. temperatures. We affectionately refer to the heat here in the panhandle of Florida as “swamp heat”. Unlike the southern part of the state which lay claim to a tropical climate, us hooligans in the north