Tag: Peppers

• Best bean salad ever — sweet corn’s the secret

  For as long as beans have been in my life, I’ve eaten bean salad. My mother made it with canned beans and bottled Italian dressing. Stoic’s mother made a big batch once when she and his father were leaving town on a trip, and Stoic ended up ice skating on bean salad after he dropped…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  June 29, 2019

  Beans, healthy cooking, Salad, Summer salads, Sweet corn

  Corn, Our State magazine, Peppers, Samin Nosrat “Salt Fat Acid Heat”

• We are each other’s memories, home-court habits

  “We are each other’s memories,” said my beautiful, silver-haired friend yesterday morning at book club, and with that remark, she grounded me in my world in a way I’ve never before felt. Until I went to college at 17, my mother, sister and I were kept isolated in a very rural setting by my control-freak…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 18, 2015

  Building better habits, Celebrations, Emotional side of weight loss, healthy cooking, Holiday eating, Importance of exercise, Keeping track of what we eat, Roasting vegetables

  cauliflower, healthy eating, Peppers, Potatoes, Rosemary

• 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

• Hoppin’ John Salad

  Please note: A friend who ate this after it spent a day in the fridge liked it just fine. I could not taste any Italian dressing or thyme. Next time I will dress salad immediately before serving. My new left hip and I are celebrating today with the traditional Southern dinner thought to bring good luck, health…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 1, 2015

  Celebrations, healthy cooking, Holiday cooking, Hoppin’ John, vegetables, Winter salads

  Black-eyed peas, Celery, Green onions, Peppers, red pepper flakes, Rice, Thyme

• 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

• Warm up with spicy sweet potatoes

  Do you read People magazine online as I do (guilty pleasure #ohwhoknows)? Yesterday, Jennifer Lopez “revealed” her “conflicts about her body.” She’s gorgeous, 40 and stinkin’ rich and she has conflicts? She can’t decide whether or not she has to look “her best” every time she leaves the house. Fortunately, the “best” bar is a…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 29, 2014

  Being present in our lives, good food, Jennifer Lopez, Roasting vegetables, Sidedishes, vegetables

  healthy eating, Kathleen Turner, Maple syrup, People magazine, Peppers, self-image, sweetpotatoes

• Spicy lentil chili, college graduation!

  There’s no close-up of this chili because there is no photogenic lentil chili. It all looks like sludge, no matter how fabulous it tastes. However, this recipe, adapted from Milwaukee restaurant Sauce via Gourmet magazine and thespicehouse.com, was the centerpiece of a graduation potluck picnic at Gettysburg College last weekend. Surprising people really enjoyed it,…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 28, 2013

  Chili, Family, Potlucks, Simple foods

  Gettysburg College graduation, healthy eating, Lentils, Peppers, Vegetables

• Three hours, shrimp pitas

  I’ve had a bleach tray in my mouth for 2 and 1/2 hours, supposed to keep it in for 3. You know what this means: no eating, drinking (coffee!) through a straw. There is probably no better illustration of my impatience with being in the moment. Three hours feels like 300. Kind of like the…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 3, 2011

  good food, healthy cooking, Simple foods, vegetables, Why overweight?

  Peppers, Roast peppers, Shrimp