Back to School Recipes! With most schools returning back to school, I wanted to share with you some delicious back-to-school recipes to help you with your meal planning. Whether your children are distance-learning, returning back to school, or homeschooling one thing’s for certain they need to eat. Today, I gathered up 15 healthy recipes from breakfast to dinner that are popular by you and some of my personal favorites. Your meal plans should be simple-easy, flavorful, colorful, and absolutely delicious. So without further ado, here are 15 delicious back-to-school recipes from breakfast to dinner. I also included a link to free downloadable meal planning templates because I know how busy…
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fonio and tiny tomato sauce
Happy Fall! Let’s celebrate with Fonio and tiny tomato sauce because tomatoes are still a thing. This seasonal fusion is brought to you by Tiny tomatoes stewed in hot sizzling butter with onions to create an irresistible sauce. Mounted on a warm creamy puddle of fonio that works nicely, making this cozy bowl hearty and delicious. It’s my hope fall brings an end to crazy and chaos and ushers in: Crunchy leaves. Thick socks, cozy sweaters, and hats! All the casseroles you can eat. Brisk walks in the park with stunning views! Cinnamon & Spice on EVERYTHING! And misty mornings with cups of hot dark chocolate. Fall….we’ve been waiting for…
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10 garden to table recipes to make before summer ends
It’s with bitter/sweet emotions that our Garden to Table Series has to come to an end. {Oven Roasted Pesto Potatoes} Everyone is in the mindset of fall, but before I succumb to the pressure of warm & cozy feels. Here’s what I’ll miss about summer: its warm temperatures, clear blue skies, long nature walks, the smell of fresh-cut grass (Am I alone on this one?), sundresses, sunkissed suntans, picnics in the park, cool refreshing drinks on a scorching afternoon, and fresh tasty garden delights straight from the vine. But I must admit I can appreciate the beauty of Autumn, like how EVERYTHING is stunningly beautiful with burnt orange leaves, misty…
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blender tomato soup with zulu sweet pepper
Let’s make some blender tomato soup. So rumor has it summer is coming to an end. LOL The weather in my neck of the woods is blisteringly hot, but already I’ve noticed leaves on our trees have started to change. This seasonal transition will be met with great opposition by many. Quarantine part 2 are murmurings in many conversations as others can’t fathom the thought of retreating indoors for another round with COVID. In my attempt to get through this transition, I’ll be blending tomato soup with Zulu sweet peppers to nourish my body. This blended beauty is made with heirloom tomatoes loaded in lycopene with a tangy tomato flavor. Made…
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garden fresh sandwich wrap
Let’s make a garden-fresh sandwich wrap! This is my attempt to translate my entire garden into a delicious sandwich wrap with bountiful flavors. This wrap has been on my mind since the beginning of the season. There’s something about a wrap that’s chock full with healthful fresh veggies sandwiched in between a moist flat wrap drizzled with jalapeno vinaigrette that makes my tastebuds soar. Here’s what you’ll need: Essential Ingredients (In layering order) Cashew Cream cheese Butterhead Lettuce Green Beans Tomatoes Red Onions Cucumbers Alfalfa Sprouts Jalapenos About that golden orange heirloom tomato known as Dr. Wyche. This notable beauty has all the characteristics of a top tier tomato. It’s…
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how to preserve herbs
Preserve the herbs! If you’re an avid reader of the blog, you know I love my vegetables, but I’ll be the first to tell you, I can’t live without my herbs. Whether grown in our garden or store-bought, herbs play a major role in my daily health regimen. I pounce at every opportunity to nourish my body with herbs, I enhance my cooking with herbs and I even aromatize my home with fresh sweet scents of the lavender herb. Yeah, I’m blissfully addicted to herbs. As of late, I’m in the early stages of freezing, dehydrating, and canning our garden harvest, and I’m so ecstatic. So, I thought I’d show…
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golden yellow zucchini scones
Golden yellow zucchini scones make me smile. A lot. I reluctantly admit it, summer is winding down, homeschool lurks on the horizon, and my garden is dying back due to scorching temperatures. BUT DON’T FRET! There’s still time to bake a pan of these summery scones made with garden-fresh yellow zucchini. I cherish this quick bread classic for its buttery inside, flaky outside, and its moist sweet center. To be the proud recipient of these golden delights you’ll need: Your basic baking ingredients (Spelt flour, almond milk, baking powder, butter, and pink salt) A cutting board Baking sheet. Combine your ingredients into a crumbly mushy ball, place it on a…
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oven roasted pesto potatoes
You say, “potatoes,” I say: garden-grown oven-roasted pesto potatoes. 🙂Growing potatoes this summer has to be one of my biggest accomplishments in the garden this year. There’s nothing more rewarding than harvesting potatoes from nature’s soil knowing you planted the seed potato that produced the bounty. I must admit, I thought it would be a tedious process, but once I learned the different potato types and their growing methods I was fine. Well…almost fine, there was a potato debacle that I recall, but we won’t go into that today. LOL In case you’re wondering, there are two potato types: Indeterminate: Indeterminate potatoes can be harvested within 100-120 days most often…
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how to freeze garden fresh pesto
Preserve the pesto, please! Because I LOVE pesto so much, I have to extend my consumption of devouring it. Every year I freeze batches that seal in Summer’s freshness that sustains our family throughout the year. Today, I’ll share with you how to freeze pesto. This technique has worked for me over the years so I want to entice you to do the same. There are two ways I generally freeze our pesto: In bulk batches. As a mom of four, I do a lot of bulk cooking in the fall and winter months so I freeze up to 1-2 cups per airtight container. The ice tray method. (On display)…
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garden fresh basil pesto
Garden fresh basil pesto because what’s summer without it? {Pictured: Genovese Red Freddy Basil} We’ve been down this pesto road before. I kicked off the Garden to Table Series with this delicious spinach pesto, but my summer wouldn’t be complete unless basil pesto made its debut here on the blog. Plus, what else are you going to smear on EVERYTHING? There are many color variations to making pesto the most common color is bright green. What you see on display is a dark green pesto with purple flecks throughout that’s because I grew purple basil this year. Yay! 🙂 It has a combination of both green and purple leaves that…
