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In-Season Recipe Connection: Easy, Healthy Pumpkin Cookies

October 15th, 2010 · 48 Comments · Recipes, Super Foods

Want to get a super food like pumpkin into your family? Put it in cookies! My husband, who doesn’t even like pumpkin, loves these healthy pumpkin cookies. The whole wheat version of the recipe hardly tastes different than the unhealthy pumpkin cookie recipe I started out with, and they remain quite easy to make. It’s [...]

5 Ways to Preserve Your Apples

October 12th, 2010 · 43 Comments · Avoiding Waste, Frugality, Recipes

If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, how many doctors are bored because we’re averaging 2-3 per person around here this fall? My husband went out with friends Friday night. They had pizza, he had an apple. The next day they tailgated; he had grilled chicken and an apple. My 2-year-old daughter Leah [...]

In-Season Recipe Connection: Katie’s Canned Salsa

September 9th, 2010 · 23 Comments · Do It Yourself, Recipes

Is it conceited if I say we’re kind of salsa connoisseurs around here? I suppose it’s not even that we have particularly trained palates, but more because of a deep love of spicy, Mexican foods that makes us qualified. That and the massive quantity of salsa we consume. On taco night, my husband polishes off [...]

In-Season Recipe Connection: Tomato Basil Pasta Salad

September 2nd, 2010 · 13 Comments · Recipes, Super Foods

Need a potluck or party dish to pass for Labor Day weekend? I got you covered. This recipe is so simple, and so in season, you might be growing the ingredients right in your garden, maybe even incorporated into your landscape gardening, like mine. I’m generally a little relaxed on the portions, so sometimes I [...]

In-Season Recipe Connection: Mexican Stuffed Peppers

August 17th, 2010 · 24 Comments · Recipes

Are you tempted by the lovely basket of peppers at the Farmer’s Market but not quite sure how to deal with so many all at once? Since most recipes seem to call for one pepper at a time, you either have to preserve the peppers by freezing or dehydrating, or find a great stuffed pepper [...]

Recipe Connection: One-Bowl Pumpkin Bread/Muffins

October 13th, 2009 · 108 Comments · Recipes, Upgraded Nutrition

Pumpkin has got to be one of my favorite fall flavors, especially in a healthy whole wheat bread or muffin. Add a generous dose of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and I’m in love. You can’t find an easier pumpkin muffin recipe than this one, and – a bonus! – it can be made super healthy, [...]