Vegetables

Fried Cabbage {Cooking Through My Collection}

April 9, 2012

When many of you read fried cabbage as the title of this you were probably thinking, really fried cabbage?! Is she really talking about fried cabbage today? And let me tell you that is exactly what I used to think when I heard about fried cabbage. You see cabbage is not my favorite food, I [...]

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Pumpkin Recipes

October 21, 2011

Nothing says the fall and holidays quite like pumpkins and pumpkin desserts. I love to use pumpkin in recipes during the fall the winter. Here are a few of our favorites. We love pumpkin for breakfast in this Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal. Pumpkin Cream Pie anyone? I love these Pumpkin Bars and I have a gluten free [...]

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Roasted Vegetable Frittata

August 29, 2011

Nothing says summer quite like the fresh fruits and vegetables that are available. They are bountiful this time of year and I love finding new ways to use them in the kitchen I have mentioned before how much I love Everyday Food magazine. It is one of my favorite food magazines and earlier this summer Martha [...]

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Green Beans and Tomatoes

August 15, 2011

When I first moved to Oklahoma I realized that many people cooked their vegetable way different than I was used to. I am not sure if it is just a regional thing or not, but many people here cook their vegetables to death. I think it may actually be just an older way to cook [...]

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Creamy Avocado Soup

August 4, 2011

Over the last few weeks my menu plan has not gone quite as planned. I blame it on the heat wave that Oklahoma has been having. There is something about multiple days where the temperature is over 110 that can make a person not want to cook. Or really do anything for that matter. And if [...]

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Chipotle Pepper Salad Dressing

July 7, 2011

I don’t know about you, but we eat a lot of salad this time of year. They are not only healthy, they are quick and easy to make. But having salad so often can become boring. We tend to make them the same way over and over. One easy way to change up a salad [...]

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Broccoli Bacon Salad

June 28, 2011

I cannot believe that I have not shared my Broccoli Bacon Salad recipe with all of you. I have been making this salad for years and my family loves it. When I went to make this salad recently I searched my site for the recipe and realized that I have never shared this recipe with [...]

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Grilled Vegetables With Balsamic Vinegar

May 31, 2011

Grilled vegetables are one of my kids favorite ways to eat vegetables. It is so easy to cut up a few vegetables and place them on grill and if it gets my kids to eat more vegetables I am all for it fixing them that way. One of my favorite ways to fix grilled [...]

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Roasted Fingerling Potatoes

May 3, 2011

Last week when I posted about buying fingerling potatoes several of you asked how I cooked them. Well, I have cooked them many ways, but today I wanted to share my favorite way to cook fingerling potatoes. And this is actually one of my favorite ways to cook almost any potato. I like them simply roasted [...]