California avocados are in their prime season right now. And let me tell you, they are so good. Like crazy good. So, when the California Avocado Commission sent me two dozen avocados to play with, the first thing I thought of was guacamole. It’s deceptively simple and easy to adapt. My favorite way to make guacamole is…
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30 Roasting Recipes – A Fall Roundup
Fact: Roasting makes food delicious. Fact: Many people who hate – hate – bitter vegetables like broccoli, Brussels sprouts and cauliflower, will eat them roasted. Some haters will love the roasted vegetables. Some will be able to tolerate them. Both are a step away from hate. Both are good. Fact: Roasting brings out the natural sweetness in vegetables…
How to Roast Beets + Recipes
Today’s Technique Tuesday post is a one-ingredient wonder: roasted beets! Perfect for sides, dips, salads, & sammies. The Soul of Health shows us her favorite, “easy peasy” way to roast up beets, including tips on how to keep your hands (and kitchen) red-streak free. Fall gives us a challenge in beets – something soft and sweet is…
Baked Spaghetti Squash
Can you believe it’s already been a week since the last Technique Tuesday? Have you hard-boiled any eggs since then? 🙂 This week, +Abigail Dougherty at The Soul of Health and I are bringing you this beautifully illustrated and simply presented recipe for Baked Spaghetti Squash from Jaden at The Steamy Kitchen. (Thank you for letting us share your…
How to Roast Vegetables
Happy “Technique Tuesday” where I share the best way to do something simple. Good technique saves time, makes your task safer, and leads to a consistently high-quality result. Today’s Technique: How to roast just about any vegetable with this handy chart from Good Housekeeping – a good one to print or pin and keep handy. Roasting brings…
Maple Syrup Kissed Roasted Vegetables {The Recipe ReDux}
Send winter’s famous root vegetables off with a kiss of spring’s sensational maple syrup. Like turning straw into gold, maple trees weave their magic by converting starch into golden syrup. In this recipe, we enhance the subtly sweet nature of roasted carrots, parsnips, and sweet potatoes by roasting them in an all-natural maple syrup glaze….
Tomato Vegetable Casserole
This comforting vegetable casserole is a snap to prepare – peel two potatoes, slice up a few veggies, sprinkle with seasonings and let the oven do the rest. Baking softens the vegetables and brings out their natural sweetness, while the parmesan cheese and italian seasonings add a savory, salty crunch on top. You may want…
My Grandmother’s Pink Applesauce
In New England, fall is apple picking season. When you live in the city, the drive out to rural Massachusetts is like a mini-vacation. As soon as my car turns down that gravely dirt road leading into the orchard, I roll down my windows and listen to my wheels as they hit the little rocks…
Mini Potato Gratins
These are are the top two things I like about making single-size servings of food: They look like you put way more work into them than you actually did You can control your portion size With that in mind, I made miniature potato gratins tonight! I created 2 different recipes. One of them involves Italian-flavored…
Caroline is a freelance writer, nutrition communication consultant, and counselor with a holistic approach to healthy living. 
