Despite the unending rain and clouds that have defined the Eastern seaboard, Memorial Day weekend is in just a few days and the summer season is upon us. Have you thought about what you’ll be making for your barbeque side dishes? Don’t forget chick peas! These versatile and ancient legumes date ...
Kitchen Chronicles
Chronicles of a Postage Stamp Gardener: Soggy but Delicious
Yuck. It’s been raining for days now and my garden is a waterlogged mess! It’s so soggy that I haven’t had much interest in picking my vegetables. I must have given the neighbors a show this morning, barefoot and hooded in my fleece sweatshirt, snipping lettuce. I suppose I should look at the ...
Another Soup for Another Rainy Day
This rainy weather is really putting me in the mood for soup. The colorful bags of dried peas and lentils sitting on my kitchen counter (courtesy of the USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council) are begging to be made into soup. This rainy weather is just plain miserable and who doesn’t crave a bowl of soup ...
Sunny Yellow Pea Soup
My first recipe for the USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council Blogger Challenge is a Sunny Yellow Pea Soup. I find that yellow split peas are just plain happy, creating bright soups and dishes with a mellow sweet flavor. Similar to green split peas, yellow peas are full of vitamins, minerals, fiber and ...
Recipe Development Contest
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I love lentils and peas. Healthy, tasty, protein rich and satisfying, my friends and I often include them in our salad and soup making dates. Lately, we’ve been savoring various soups such as the coconut curried red lentil soup. So when I was contacted on behalf of the USA Dry Pea and Lentil ...
Chronicles of a Postage Stamp Gardener: First Meal
Can you believe this gorgeous bunch of radishes? I’m proud to say they’re mine! Yep. Grew 'em myself. From scratch. On April 6th I scattered seeds in the ground and here it is, less than five weeks later (39 days to be precise) and I have perfect radishes! Firm, fire truck red, about 1 inch in ...
Carrot Muffins, Biscotti and a Good Old Fashioned Lunch
Sometimes it’s hard to see friends. Busy lives and lots of work often interfere with good intentions. That’s why I set aside several hours last Wednesday morning for my friend Jackie. We started with a jog around the park, exercising together while planning what we’d bake later. Jackie had a ...
Chronicles of a Postage Stamp Gardener: Invasion of the Milk Jugs
Every day there’s a surprise in my gardening universe. This week it was one for my husband, who was greeted by a lovely display of plastic milk containers in my front (and back) yard gardens. Here's the background: As I was paying for my herbs and summer vegetables at the garden center, an ...
Cooking Caponata (with friends)
“You know Alison, this took us only one hour to make. It usually takes me three!” Lou Palma Lou’s words were music to my ears as we concluded a very efficient caponata making date couple Thursdays ago. (Caponata is a Sicilian cooked vegetable salad, kind of like ratatouille. You can find it ...
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