Vegetable Wellington with butternut squash and mushrooms
In my last post I talked about what we had for Thanksgiving which included Vegetable Wellington as our main course. I’ve been asked by several people to post the recipe. This recipe is based on a recipe from the New York Times, Butternut Squash and Mushroom Wellington. When we saw it we decided it would [...]
Broccoli and rice casserole with chick peas and portabella mushrooms
Much of my experimental cooking comes from the fact that I hate to waste food. When I have too much of something I look for a recipe or come up with a recipe that utilizes what needs to be eaten. Saturday, my husband Chris announced, “We don’t have any more room in the fridge [...]
Spinach Feta Pizza
One year, by accident, I planted our spinach just a little too late at the end of summer to get a fall yield. However, this accident lead to a wonderful surprise in the spring. By the first week in May we were able to harvest 6 pounds of the most succulent spinach. The plants were established [...]
A quest for the elusive morel mushroom
Sometime in early April I decided this was the year that I would go traipsing around through the woods in search of morel mushrooms. “Wouldn’t that make a good blog entry?”, I thought to myself. Talk about delicious organic, locally-grown food. How perfect. I could even do a series of posts on different recipes and [...]