Category: Summer Favorites

  • Zucchini Blossom Pasta Sauce

    Zucchini Blossom Pasta Sauce

    Zucchini plants produce an awful lot of zucchini! A great way to utilize your zucchini plants is to harvest the blossoms too! Many have heard of stuffed zucchini blossoms that are filled and deep fried, and yes, very good. Why not add them to a pasta sauce? Zucchini Blossom Pasta Sauce is refreshingly different, just…

  • Favorite Potatoes: Roasted With Smothered Onions

    Favorite Potatoes: Roasted With Smothered Onions

    Usually I avoid potatoes with a meal, unless of course fries are around. Potatoes are usually too filling for me. Potatoes as everyone knows are high carb. They have their health benefits but I can get those same benefits from lower calorie vegetables. Anyway there is a potato dish I love and never pass on…

  • Zucchini Bread! Tried & True, A Summer “Must Have”!

    Zucchini Bread! Tried & True, A Summer “Must Have”!

    Zucchini is taking over my garden. Goodness, even my hens are tiring of it. I have yet to bake a zucchini bread this summer so since the morning proved cool I could open the windows and bake away without heating the kitchen, or starting the competition between the oven and the air conditioning. So bake…

  • Stuffed Peppers With Chicken: So Diet-Friendly You Won’t Believe It!

    Stuffed Peppers With Chicken: So Diet-Friendly You Won’t Believe It!

    Stuffed peppers are usually filled with a rice and meat mixture. The peppers are a bit tough unless you cook them forever in a liquid that only adds time and calories. This recipe uses roasted bell peppers and chicken. The peppers are sweet and so soft you can cut them with a fork. The filling…

  • Pistachio/Shrimp Zucchini Wraps – Low Carb!

    Pistachio/Shrimp Zucchini Wraps – Low Carb!

    If you garden and raise zucchini you are probably one the many people who always have more zucchini than you care to use. And yes, more than likely you will have a zucchini or two that slips past you and isn’t noticed until it is beyond huge. This is the recipe for those zucchini! Large…

  • Mash Those Zucchini!

    Mash Those Zucchini!

    I swear zucchini must fall from the sky at night. Lately it seems every morning the garden has more zucchini ripe and large than even possible. Of course they don’t really just appear. This says more about my careless picking style than anything else. What to do with this excess? Muffins, breads, cookies all come…

  • Fried Green Tomatoes!

    Fried Green Tomatoes!

    For more years than I care to admit, I have waited for a ripe, red, tomato to appear in my garden. Often I would prowl the local farmer’s market in hope of landing an early red tomato I could boast of. Just the other day I was admiring my fat, luscious-looking green tomatoes in my…

  • Blueberry Buckle

    Blueberry Buckle

      Much to my family’s delight, July brings blueberry season to most of the Midwest. Blueberry farms have increased in number over the past few years as varieties have been developed to better suit Midwest growing seasons. Blueberry Buckle is a favorite and reminds me of when my kids were toddlers. One of their favorite…

  • Sweet Corn Salad with Zucchini

    Sweet Corn Salad with Zucchini

    July means sweet corn! Never being a corn zealot who waits anxiously for the first sweet corn to appear so I can slather it in butter and salt and wolf it down ear after ear, I still love fresh sweet corn but not on the cob! Sweet corn salad is delicious, fresh, crisp, and yes,…

  • Fresh Peas & Dumplings! Low-Fat and Low Sodium!

    Fresh Peas & Dumplings! Low-Fat and Low Sodium!

      Early summer brings fresh peas to gardens, farmers markets, and grocers everywhere. I have vivid memories of driving out in the country as a little girl with my mother until we found a farm field with pea picking equipment hard at work. We always called them pea viners. We would stop and my mother…