Category: Olive oil

• Corn keeps coming; best corn soup yet!

  Every time I ask if there’s more corn out there in the garden, the answer is, yes, there’s still some we can use or take to someone. Can’t believe how a week of rain on top of a hot dry summer plumped and sweetened it. Still seems like a miracle to me — the only…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 15, 2014

  good food, healthy cooking, Local food, Olive oil, Seasonal food, Soup, vegetables

  Corn, Cream soup, Lynne Rosetto Kasper, Nina Planck, Pepper sauce, Peppers

• Just say no?; grilled romaine

  My Mother speaks. If  you don’t believe in those things, how are you going to stay sober? Every time I want to drink or do drugs, I’m going to make the decision not to do them. I’ll keep making that decision until it’s no longer a decision, but a way of life. Originally marketed as…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  June 9, 2014

  Addiction, Grilling, Lettuce, Olive oil, Salad, Simple foods

  A Million Little Pieces, gardening, healthy eating, James Frey, Romaine lettuce, weight loss

• Easter dinner, harissa roasted carrots

  Occasionally, I’m reminded of our narrow taste palette. Making and cooking with harissa, a hot pepper paste from North Africa and the Mediterranean, was one of those times. Even before adding the lemon juice, olive oil and garlic, it smelled like nothing I could identify, except the overtones of anise. I needed only a wee…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 22, 2014

  Easter, Flavors of the Earth, good food, Holiday cooking, Holiday eating, Middle Eastern foods, myflourishingfoodie.com, Olive oil, Women’s Health magazine

  Carrots, Harissa, Lemon, Mint, Yogurt, Zaatar

• Kitchen Roselli, 131 Main and Greek couscous salad

  Something in the Thai Steak Salad dressing at 131 Main in Cornelius (NC) tugged at the corners of my palate. Something familiar but unusual in an entrée salad. A blast of  summery green not usually keeping company with butter-tender bits of filet mignon. They added fresh mint to amp up the beef, mango, noodles and green…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 9, 2013

  Couscous, good food, healthy cooking, Olive oil, Salad, Simple foods, Spring, Tomatoes

  131 Main, basil, Cornelius, Greek salad, healthy eating, Kitchen Roselli, nutrition, onions, Rosemary, Tomatoes, Vegetables, Villa Pozzi

• New year, new me, blah, blah, Brussels sprouts

  Time to get re-revved. I’ve rejoined the YMCA after 6 years away. I can walk on the treadmill, do weight circuits, take water aerobics, spin and zumba classes, swim laps. If only it weren’t so much easier to lie in the recliner, read novels (ooh, like Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior) and eat leftover Christmas candy! Christmas around here really…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 21, 2013

  Brussels sprouts, healthy cooking, Holiday eating, Olive oil, Roasting vegetables, Rural life, vegetables

  Back on diet track with veggies, Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior, New Town Bistro, New Year’s

• Green beans and parsley redefined

  Every once in a while — often enough to keep me trying new recipes — I stumble across one that redefines a food (or two). This is one of those recipes — made me almost forget the tender turkey breast glazed in summer’s peach preserves and next to the beans on last night’s dinner plates. When…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 1, 2012

  healthy cooking, Holiday cooking, Olive oil, Sidedishes, vegetables

  Extra Virginity, freezing fresh herbs, green beans, parsley, Tom Mueller, walnuts