About Cauliflower and this roasted cauliflower recipe Roasted cauliflower recipes are my favorite way to use this vegetable. A whole head of cauliflower is cooked, so there is enough for a crowd or for several single meals. The results are…
About raw garden vegetable salad recipe This raw garden vegetable salad is easy to make using locally grown summer vegetables. Even better is to use vegetables from your own backyard garden. Use lots of fresh herbs for the extra flavor…
About Okra Okra is a wonderful and underutilized vegetable. The young pods are best and cook more quickly when still tender but fully mature pods work fine with just a little extra cooking time and moisture. Okra supplies a lot…
Authentic Italian tomato sauces start with ripe Roma tomatoes. Either onion or garlic is part of the recipe, depending on region and personal taste, but not both. Olive oil is used to saute the onion or garlic and makes for…
Spaghetti squash is a member of the hard, or winter, squash family which also includes acorn and butternut squash. This family of vegetables are good sources of carotenoids, lutein, zeaxanthin and beta-cryptoxanthin. Though relatively high in starches, the complex…
Dried beans are an important part of my healthy whole food diet and I make a pot of them every week or two to always have available as a side dish or entree. Full of fiber, minerals, vitamins and micronutrients,…
Are you feeling the need for a healthy dose of vitamin A, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds and fiber, too? Does it have to be fast and easy because you are short on time? How about cheap and widely available at…
Here is a quick and easy recipe for vegetable salad using any locally grown raw vegetables. This example uses organic tomatoes, cucumbers and green bell peppers grown in Ashe County, North Carolina. The vegetables were all purchased at a small-chain…