Category: vegetables

• You say frittaa-ta, I say frittah-da

  I am home-schooling only three dogs and five cats, but that’s plenty with the all-day in-and-out, in-and-out, in-and-out.

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 27, 2020

  Frittata, Healthy eating for the whole family, Supper, vegetables

  artichokes, eggs, Goat cheese, Mollie Katzen’s Moosewood Cookbook, onions, The Splendid Table, zucchini

• “Sensory strobe light” from a simple soup

  When I read a food article like Helen Rosner’s “The Female Chef Making Japan’s Most Elaborate Cuisine Her Own,” (from which I swiped “sensory strobe light”), I think I’m not trying hard enough. Very few exotic ingredients, so little “plating,” so much grabbing and going. But then I realize we’re lucky enough to eat really…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 21, 2019

  Flavors of the Earth, healthy cooking, Healthy eating for the whole family, Making new habits, Nutrition, Senior fitness, Simple foods, Soup, vegetables

  Barley, Beans, cooking from garden, Easy entrees, healthy eating, Kale, The New Yorker magazine, V-8 juice

• Stopping by the kitchen on a snowy evening: Honey-garlic sprouts and figgy pork tenderloin

  Lucky for us, the new issue of Taste of Home magazine with its centerpiece on sheet pan suppers arrived before the snow (none of this carry on through rain, snow, sleet foolishness for our carriers). The frozen stuff started before daylight and continued all day, but we had a tiny pork tenderloin in the freezer…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 18, 2018

  Cooking Light magazine, good food, Roasting vegetables, Taste of Home magazine, vegetables, Winter

  Brussels sprouts, Figs, Garlic, Pork, Sheet pan baking

• I’m as corny as Kansas in August, slow-cooker corn chowder without cheese

  We are covered up in summer squashes and sinking fast. Corn and tomatoes are advancing from the east (the garden). I spend more time in the kitchen these days than at any other time of the year because you can only give away so many zucchini and hot peppers. Stoic and I made two kinds…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 3, 2017

  Seasonal food, Slow cooker recipes, Soup, vegetables

  Chowder, cooking from garden, Corn, Garlic, healthy eating, 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

• And I don’t like chard . . .

    A young friend who’s working harder than any human bean should have to, says clients buying her family farm’s CSA subscriptions often ask what to do with chard. You can cook it like fresh spinach or you can take a couple of extra steps to fix this Lebanese Swiss chard from therecipehunters.com. It may…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  June 12, 2017

  Beans, Cooking from the garden, good food, healthy cooking, Local food, Seasonal food, therecipehunters.com, vegetables

  Canary beans, chard, cooking from garden, Garlic, Josephine’s Swiss chard and black eyed peas recipe, onions, parsley, Spinach

• Boffo Brussels sprouts

  Something I never expected to hear: Stoic the Vast saying, “Wow (!), I can’t believe how much I like these.” Nothing new for me — I’ve loved Brussels sprouts since before I can remember, but Stoic… These sprouts from the March issue of Our State — Celebrating North Carolina magazine, though, are something else. The…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  February 20, 2017

  Brussels sprouts, Cooking from the garden, healthy cooking, Nutrition, Uncategorized, vegetables

  apples, Molasses, Olive oil, Vegetable recipes to get you eating better

• Holiday time machine; 12 vegetables of Christmas

  Is there any more effective time machine than a Christmas tree? The first ornament that was mine and only mine was given to me by my maternal grandmother, Christmas of 1952. I pull out that silver cardboard horse to hang it up and, bam!, I’m 7 years old in Watsontown, PA, waiting with dread for the…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  December 10, 2016

  Asian food, Beans, Emo eating, Holiday cooking, Holiday eating, vegetables

  cooking from garden, green beans, healthy eating, Sambal Oelek, Vegetables

• Smokey the Bear and Fall Noodle Bowl to take to your cave

  This is the time of year when I eat as though I were going to hibernate — red meat, salmon, honey, anything I find under logs in the forest. Add to that a world-class cold I brought home last week from a Boston food fest, and you have the potential for serious ballooning. All this just…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  October 22, 2015

  healthy cooking, Holiday cooking, Soup, Sugar in the diet, vegetables

  healthy eating, nutrition, Spinach, sweetpotatoes

• Slow-cooker zucchini soup — use 2 pounds of the stuff in a single delicious recipe

  No matter how carefully Stoic the Vast may plan, we always end up with extra yellow summer squash and not enough zucchini. I adore the latter, tolerate the former. Cooked yellow squash feels to me like raw squid must — oogly, googly and slickery. Zucchini, on the other tentacle, is more self-possessed, holds its shape…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 13, 2015

  Cooking from the garden, healthy cooking, Seasonal food, Simple foods, Slow cooker recipes, Soup, vegetables

  basil, cooking from garden, healthy eating, Peppers, Sausage, Tomatoes, zucchini