New Year’s Toast—With Shakes!
January 2, 2013Blenders aren’t just for frozen margaritas in the summer. They can turn fresh and frozen garden abundance into a raw and vegan meal that comes in shake form.
Mediterranean Roasted Vegetables
June 26, 2012This recipe for Mediterranean Root Vegetables is a perfectly healthy addition to almost any entrée.
Black Kale
March 30, 2012Kale’s dark-green leaves are nutrition-dense and easy-to-grow, even out here in Italy.
6 Whole-food Cooking Ideas You Never Thought to Try
October 18, 2011Try these recipes to add some excitement to your kitchen without letting a single part of your harvest go to waste.
Rosh Hashana Resolutions
October 12, 2011Photo by Judith Hausman Next year, I’d like to make more of my addictive dip, in which I substitute roasted zucchini for eggplant. This month, my gardening coop’s period of assessment and notes for next year coincide with Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, so it’s a perfect time to make resolutions to do things […]
Northern Okra
August 31, 2011Photo courtesy iStockphoto/Thinkstock I find Indian-style curry to be the perfect match for okra. About three weeks ago, one of our garden coop plots was weed-ridden (again), so a couple of us waded in. I climbed behind a trellis of spent pea vine to pull them out. Among the weeds, I saw a row of […]
Grilled Creole Corn and Vegetables
August 13, 2011Hang on to this recipe as the perfect enhancement to summer’s heat.
The Wait
March 23, 2011Photo by Judith Hausman I used leftover chicken and a combination of vegetables to make this late-winter pot pie. The very first blog entry I posted as the Hungry Locavore was about the eating doldrums of late winter. And here we are again. The winter vegetables have lost their charm, only the pachysandra has managed to […]
A Tour of the World’s Food Plants
November 17, 2010For the past month, I’ve been taking a trip around the world as I drink my morning coffee—the edible world, that is.
The Big Soup
October 20, 2010Photo by Judith Hausman Need a way to use up those garden veggies? Throw them in the soup pot. The air is cooler, the garden is straggling and our tastes are turning. It’s time to throw everything into the soup pot, trusting our palates and our instincts, flying without a recipe, seasoning at will. Minestrone […]
