Cauli-faux-er Fried Rice
I see cauliflower. Everywhere. It was a vegetable I used to ignore and now I have fallen in love.
Cauliflower plays nicely with other ingredients. It’s happy to hang out for a good amount of time in the vegetable drawer of your fridge. Feel like potatoes or rice, but don’t feel like consuming the empty calories of a starch today? Cauliflower says, “Try me!” Have some GoodHeart chicken and want to make a quick dinner? Cauliflower says, “Rice me baby!” Cauliflower says, “Not to ...
My Favorite Massaged Kale Salad from “A Time to Kale”
Know when to have fun and know when to get up close and personal with your kale! Emily of the food and lifestyle blog “A Time to Kale” was kind enough to share a delicious salad recipe she made using fresh kale and GoodHeart chicken. After 10 days of grabbing food and bevs on the go during a jam-packed-she’s-working-yet-this-girl-knows-how-to-have-fun adventure at the South by Southwest festival and conference in Austin, TX, Emily was ready for a fresh healthy meal. This one came together ...
Go-To Chicken Pasta
What makes a recipe one you come back to again and again? For me, it’s important that my people want to eat it again and again. And happily. No complaints! It needs to be delicious, flexible and convenient. I should be able to change it up on whim or necessity, depending on what vegetables are in the house. Sometimes it’s the celery starting to look a little weak around the knees and I have no broccoli. It’s nice to be able to listen to what’s calling out to you from inside your fridge ...
Blackberry Celebration Salad with Chicken
Imagine. An early July morning. Small rays of sunshine prick flat ways through bushes because the sun is just showing over the horizon. I need to pick blackberries before I go to work AND before the rattlesnakes come out. I’ve heard stories....
Beef & Vegetable Soup in the Salad
July 1, 2016 | Ahhh, at last a quiet night at home. Its just me, the dog and a backlog of the Night Manager to get through. When cooking for only myself I hate to make multiple dishes and wash more than one pot. Hearty veggie loaded soups always fit the bill on these nights. One night I was preparing to make a soup and a salad separately when I decided to combine the two in one bowl almost like a Vietnamese Pho. The combination is light, versatile, and very satisfying. Tonight I happen to ...
Chili Garlic Green Bean and Chicken Stir Fry
June 30, 2016 | This week the wax and pole beans are coming in strongly. I remember that my son actually likes chili stir-fried beans at a local Chinese restaurant so I thought I’d try an adaptation to help deplete the big bowl of green beans that is on my counter. He loved them so much that he asked if I could cook them again tomorrow. Success! This one is getting written down. — Florencia
Zucchini Fettuccini and Hand Pulled Chicken with Fresh Tomato Basil Sauce
June 25, 2016 | Today I came home from being out of town for two weeks and the zucchinis were gargantuan. I also stopped by a farm stand on my way and bought some early season tomatoes. It’s a little early for tomatoes in Napa and they are not quite interesting enough to eat fresh in a salad, so I thought I’d incorporate them into a sauce instead. Here is the last minute dinner I whipped up after a long road trip and arriving home to an empty fridge. — Florencia
Quick Garden Chicken Stir Fry
June 15, 2016 | Tonight Nico’s friend is coming over with her parents. The two kids are re-enacting an episode of Chopped Junior. They will be making a dessert each so we have large bowls of strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, and nuts prepared for their mystery basket. But I still need to feed them dinner before we start the competition. Quick garden stir fry is my time saving solution and of course cucumber salad since I still have so many of them ripe and needing to be picked. -- ...
