One of my most popular older recipes is Carrot Cake Ice Cream with Cream Cheese Frosting Swirl, and it is popular for a great reason: it tastes like frozen carrot cake! Hard to go wrong there. We are once again in farm-fresh carrot season, with the kind of sweet, young carrots that are perfect for […]
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Super Simple Zucchini Pie
As a child of the Midwest I have memories of eating zucchini almost daily during late summer. It found its way into breads, soups, skillets, and casseroles. So ubiquitous was this vegetable that when I was in my early teens I spent a productive chunk of time writing a book with my cousin Julie called […]
Watermelon-Lime Ice Pops
Browsing through the “summer” tab of my seasonal recipe index, I realized that I should probably re-name it “ice pops and frozen desserts.” I do make a steady stream of ice pops during the summer, as they are fast, refreshing, and a lot healthier than purchased frozen treats. I use whole fruit and add honey […]
Banana Cream Pie Ice Pops
This recipe is brought to you by “lack of communication.” Sometimes we both end up going to the grocery without consulting each other, and that is how we end up with twelve bananas. I wanted to use up some of the extras before they turned black, and it has finally warmed up around here so […]
Slow Cooker Curried Tomato Soup
Fall doesn’t officially start until the end of the month, but our garden is already making the transition. The cucumbers stopped producing after a cold snap last week, and the tomatoes are soon going to be good only for green tomato chutney. Last week I cleared some beds and planted garlic, kale, and shallots to […]
30 Healthy Ice Pop Recipes
Last year I planted shiso in our little greenhouse and the plant grew quite large and went to seed, which led to this year’s bumper crop of baby shiso plants growing everywhere. I pulled about a hundred and left five of them to grow. If you have never tried shiso it is a culinary herb […]
Roasted Root Vegetables
Almond Butter Buckeyes
Baked Coconut Onion Rings
