Simply Me: A Year of Eating Locally, Mindfully, Simply

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In Simply Me, I will share my experiences as I cook through all the recipes in Simply in Season. Through this process I hope to discover simple ways of preparing local, healthy foods and learn more about nutrition, sustainability, and how our eating choices impact the world.

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Recent Posts Tagged With 'kale'

Aug 11

Green Surprise Dip

Adapted from Simply in Season, this dip is super quick to make! Ingredients: 1 bunch steamed kale (could also use other greens. I steamed it by adding a bit of water to a large frying pan and stir frying it) 1 C plain yogurt 1 can chickpeas 1/4 C Â (read full article)

dip, Fall, kale, recipe, Simply in Season, spinach, swiss chard

Aug 01

Vegetable Pasta Salad

I’m once again taking liberties with this recipe from Simply in Season. The similarities are that it contains pasta and vegetables. But from there we diverge. Ingredients: 1 package of pasta 1 bunch of kale (or other greens; remove the stems (read full article)

kale, Main Dish, Pasta, recipe, Side Dish, summer, tomatoes, Vegetarian

Jul 22

Crustless Zucchini Tomato Quiche

OK so I didn’t have enough tomatoes to make this as written. I sort of ate the handful of ripe cherry tomatoes that I had picked for this recipe. Oops. So I added some chopped kale. That’s the nice thing about Simply in Season. They actu (read full article)

Broccoli, Greens, kale, recipe, Simply in Season, tomato, Vegetarian, zucchini

Jul 15

Chard or Kale Enchiladas

I know, I’ve teased you with this recipe before. I finally got around to making it. I ended up using kale AND chard, since the one bunch of chard didn’t equal a pound. This is from the fall section of Simply in Season. But kale and chard (read full article)

Fall, kale, Main Dish, recipe, Simply in Season, swiss chard, Vegetarian

Jun 24

Grilled Sausages with Baby Turnips and Turnip Greens

So I had these spring turnips from the CSA pickup and no recipes in Simply In Season that called for them. Lucky me, I have a couple of cookbooks in my “to review” pile. I found a recipe in Eating Local: The Cookbook Inspired by Ameri (read full article)

Greens, kale, Main Dish, recipe, Sausage, spring, spring turnips, turnip greens, turnips

Jun 23

Sausage and Greens Soup

Simply In Season calls this “Weed Soup” in the recipe notes. It’s a great way to use up CSA leftovers! FOR PRINTABLE VERSION CLICK HERE: Sausage and Greens Soup 8 ounces bulk sausage 1 cup green onion (or onion or chives. I used (read full article)

chives, Greens, kale, recipe, Sausage, Simply in Season, Soup, spinach, spring, swiss chard

Jun 09

Sesame Garlic Glaze for Meat and Greens

This is a recipe from From Asparagus to Zucchini that I found last year when I was searching for a bok choy recipe. Before I realized that you can use glazes like this for any type of green or stir fry or meat. After taking a few classes at my CSA, I (read full article)

bok choy, Chicken, kale, Main Dish, Pork, recipe, Side Dish, swiss chard

Dec 20

Dark Days Challenge: Fiery Chicken and Greens

WARNING: This recipe not for the faint of heart or weak of colon. I decided to combine two challenges today. My blogger friend FJ, whose blog is www.flawlessfitnessbook.com, asked me to create a meaty dish with some sort of high-water content vegetab (read full article)

Chicken, collards, kale, Main Dishes, swiss chard

Nov 27

Chicken Vegetable Soup

While the recipe in Simply in Season merely calls for a 3 pound whole chicken, I knew that this was the perfect recipe for a stewing chicken. Stewing chickens are usually tough old birds and are very inexpensive, even when they are the organic free r (read full article)

autumn, Broccoli, carrots, Chicken, kale, recipe, Simply in Season, Soup, stewing chickens

Oct 31

Greens in Peanut Sauce

From time to time, people tell me that they love the Simply in Season cookbook, but they don’t know what to make from it. Some of the recipes scare them, so they are glad that I’m doing this project so they can see how the dish turns out. (read full article)

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