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easy sautéed mushrooms: chanterelle, shiitake, or cremini

2018/11/13 By Melinda Leave a Comment

easy sautéed mushrooms: chanterelle, shiitake, or cremini in cast iron

Like all the best recipes these easy sautéed mushrooms allow for substitutions and modifications. chanterelles out of season?  shiitakes too darn expensive? cremini cramping your style? switch it out. just follow a few basic principles and you have a most simple, delicious, easy and satisfying side dish or garnish. Bonus points for being vegan and […]

Filed Under: Cast Iron, gluten free, Recipes, Savory, Sides and such, Veggies, Winter Holiday Tagged With: cast iron, easy, garlic, gluten free, mushrooms, stove top, vegan, wine

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quick and easy garlic ginger asparagus

2018/02/26 By Melinda 2 Comments

garlic ginger asparagus with a squeeze of fresh lime held aloft on a white plate

A simple side, delicious with coconut curry seafood chowder or with any Asian inspired main course. This asparagus came from Mexico because by February buying local kale and collards has become repetitive, boring, blah. I’m ready for spring, for asparagus, strawberries, tulips. For a few days it seemed spring was just around the corner, short […]

Filed Under: Recipes, Savory, Sides and such, spring veggies, Veggies Tagged With: asparagus, baked, cast iron, easy, garlic, ginger, gluten free, oven, quick, vegan, vegetarian

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quick collard greens with apples and acv

2017/12/19 By Melinda Leave a Comment

collard greens with fresh autumn apples, apple cider, and apple cider vinegar Up your luck in the new year by adding greens. If the only collards you’ve ever had have been thick cut and slow stewed it my come as a surprise that they are also delicious barely cooked or even raw, you don’t even […]

Filed Under: gluten free, Recipes, Salads, Sides and such, Veggies Tagged With: acv, apple, collard greens, easy, quick, raw, vegan, whole 30

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Cast Iron Peach Clafoutis

2016/08/17 By Melinda 4 Comments

Cast Iron Peach Clafoutis

A soft vanilla scented batter, buttery crisp around the edges and loaded with sweet summer peaches.

Filed Under: Breakfasty Brunchy, Cast Iron, Fruit, Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: baked, cast iron, clafoutis, custard, easy, Flaugnarde, forbidden fruit orchard, peach

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Simple, Stress-Free, Potato Leek Soup

2015/02/04 By Melinda Leave a Comment

Balanced, earthy, no fuss comfort food: potato leek soup is one of the simple classics that helps get me through winter.

Filed Under: Recipes, Savory, Soups, chilies, chowders Tagged With: easy, leek, Potato, soup

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sliced and slow roasted rosemary potatoes

2015/01/06 By Melinda 1 Comment

slow roasted rosemary potatoes

Sliced and Slow Roasted Rosemary Potatoes Roast these deliciously easy potatoes low and slow for the first 15-20 minutes while assembling the rest of your meal and then pull them out, flip them over and finish them at a higher heat right before you serve. These make a great side or, served with a bit […]

Filed Under: Poems, Recipes, Savory, Sides and such Tagged With: easy, Potato, rosemary

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