Month: January 2009

Green bean salad with dried cranberries

Green bean salad with dried cranberries

For the longest time, I never liked sweet stuff with savory stuff. For example, I used to never like any fruit in my salad, but now I frequently put apple, dried cranberries, with things like onions and carrots and balsamic vinaigrette.  Or, I would never 

More about sustainable foods + Greek zucchini Cakes!

More about sustainable foods + Greek zucchini Cakes!

So yesterday I was talking about how I wanted to buy more foods that were locally grown because  so much food is shipped so far just to get to your grocery store.  Isn’t it funny that once you learn about something for the first time, 

Winter Farmers Markets? & Crockpot Chicken Tortilla Soup

Winter Farmers Markets? & Crockpot Chicken Tortilla Soup

So yesterday, I was visiting my favorite sites, and when I was on Tom’s site, I linked to another site The menu coach chronicles, and read an article about year round Farmers Markets.  One of my new years resolutions is to try to buy foods 

Winter Farmers Markets? & Crockpot Chicken Tortilla Soup

Winter Farmers Markets? & Crockpot Chicken Tortilla Soup

So yesterday, I was visiting my favorite sites, and when I was on Tom’s site, I linked to another site The menu coach chronicles, and read an article about year round Farmers Markets.  One of my new years resolutions is to try to buy foods 

Orange Cilantro Chicken

Orange Cilantro Chicken

I don’t know about you, but I cook chicken a few times a week, and I am always on the hunt to make something different and not the same old recipe.  I like this one, because its so easy, has hardly any ingredients, and it tastes great.  I 

Sweet and Hot pepper chicken – Asian Style

Sweet and Hot pepper chicken – Asian Style

My family went out to dinner last night to Big Bowl. Its a chain restaurant that serves stir fry, Thai food.  It just reminded me how much I love that kind of food.  I could literally eat it every day!  I made this recipe to 

Food review – Kashi soft-baked cereal bars.

Food review – Kashi soft-baked cereal bars.

I love getting free samples of stuff in the mail!  I periodically get things from Kashi.  And today I received one of their new soft-baked cereal bars.  The flavors are baked apple spice, blackberry graham, or ripe strawberry.  I had the blackberry graham, and it