This is a variation on a salad I've posted here before. The main difference is the dressing, a tahini vinaigrette that is my new BFF. Ingredients Juice of one ripe lemon (2 Tablespoons) 1/4 cup golden balsamic vinegar 1/3 cup walnut or canola oil 2 tablespoons sesame...

This has been my go-to pie crust recipe for thirty years. Sometimes I make it without nuts, but of late I usually include the walnuts or pecans. It's a good recipe for sweet or savory pies. Here's the basic recipe: 2 Cups Unbleached Flour 2/3 Cups Salted Butter 1/2...

Here's what I was going for with this recipe: a dinner side dish that has three veggies, protein and a richly satisfying taste while not being too fatty or rich. In other words, I wanted healthy comfort food. And since I commonly cook dishes that will serve four to...

Since it's Brussels Sprouts season, in the garden or organically grown from the store, I thought I'd share one of my favorite ways to prepare this vegetable. ALERT! I've served this to people who "don't like Brussels sprouts" and it has always been a hit. Buy or cut...

For this dish it's best to roast the beets and carrots ahead of time. In fact, if you have beets and carrots in the garden you can harvest many and roast them, using some for this salad and freezing the rest for future use. To roast the beets, wash them and wrap them...

At the end of October, when the nights are getting cool, we no longer have basil to harvest. But there are other greens that also make delicious pesto and today's recipe provides a colorful twist on a favorite dish. I used three greens we have in the garden right now....

It used to be that we had a choice of two mushrooms in most supermarkets. We could get either white button mushrooms, or brown which were usually called crimini mushrooms. Both were imature forms of  Agaricus bisporus and they are high in vitamin D and have possible...

In the fall kale and chard often last longer in the garden than other crops so here is a very tasty and quick way to make dinner with these two vegetables. Those who are vegetarians can prepare the same dish and just leave out the bacon. Cook the pasta of your choice...

The autumn garden provides an abundant harvest of winter squash, and although there are many ways of preparing this vegetable in hot dishes, it can also be used as a salad or room-temperature side dish. We grew Honey Nut squash this year from Renee's seeds, and it was...

For many people, twice baked potatoes are the definition of comfort food. But let's face it...many versions of this spud recipe are full of fat and not much else. It doesn't have to be that way, however, especially in the harvest season when the garden is still filled...