Category: Fresh herbs

• Fresh, fabulous figs

  We waited longer for figs than for a baby. The latter took just under 3 years; the former, more than 25. And this year, booyah!, we have figs. Figs to eat out of hand, figs to freeze for making preserves and figs to cook. Assuming figs grew in Eden (fig leaves, remember?), why would anyone leave,…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 23, 2017

  Cooking from the garden, Fresh herbs, Fruit, Pork chops, Rural life, Seasonal food, Southern food

  cooking from garden, Figs, gardening, healthy eating, onions, Thyme

• Holy cow! Easy zucchini-tomato Parmesan

  Flipping between channels last night, I paused long enough on a PBS special about cancer research to hear an expert say something to the effect that obesity has finally passed smoking to be the #1 preventable cause of cancer!!! I think this was rattling around somewhere in my subconscious, but I’ve never heard overweight put…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 20, 2017

  Cancer prevention, Cooking from the garden, Food habits, Fresh herbs, healthy cooking, obesity, Seasonal food, Taking care of ourselves, vegetables

  basil, cheese, cooking from garden, nutrition, Tomatoes, zucchini

• Summer sauces; tomato-fresh basil-garlic vinaigrette

  I don’t know why, but it started with purchased tzatziki (cucumber, yogurt and garlic), which is really good on a chicken or tuna sandwich. Then, of course, the poppy-seed dressing and now a tomato-basil vinaigrette that’s out of this world. We’ll forget about the mayonnaise with siracha, soy sauce and sesame oil added for garnishing…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 13, 2017

  Cooking from the garden, Fresh herbs, Simple foods, Summer salads, Vinaigrette

  Garlic, Greens, Tomatoes, Vegetables, Vinaigrette