This turned out amazingly delicious. I started with sweet potatoes that I had sliced thickly and roasted in the oven but they didn’t turn out so great the sweet potatoes were a little bit old and I wasn’t thrilled with the flavor. So, if you remember what my motto is… if it doesn’t work the…

This is so refreshing and delicious made with summer vegetables. You will need for 2 people 1 large chicken breast or 2 smaller ones 1/2 of a very large sweet onion like a Walla Walla 3-4 Sweet and hot peppers (2&2 works great) Use what ever kind you like and the heat you can handle….

When our bodies do not have enough potassium we crave things, salty, sweet, sweet and salty. You may think, well I’ll just eat a banana which yes has a good amount of potassium but our bodies actually need 4700 mg of potassium a day. We can get additional potassium from eating lots of greens, baked…

When the tomatoes arent quite ready to be picked yet and I’m craving tomato dishes, instead of always making sauce, I many times will create a dish with sun-dried tomatoes to give me that tomato taste that I’m craving. This is one of those dishes. 1 large chicken breast cut into cubes 1 medium onion…

Serve this scampi over vegetable pasta for a healthy touch. Making scampi is pretty simple, this dish is really too simple to give you actual amounts for ingredients. Basically you need to learn to wing it a little, use the ingredients you have on hand. That means you can change it up however you want…

7 Simple Recipes For Preserving Edible Flowers…By Melissa Breyer from a 2012 article on http://www.treehugger.com I love using flowers in my salads and drinks. Melissa shares some good information on how else you can use them.   Edible flowers add delight and distinctly delicious flavors to food and drinks. Fluttered as a garnish or tossed…

They’re not just for pickling, they are for shredding into salads, juicing, steaming, slicing, soup and more. When I was little I loved my grandmother’s pickled beets, I never imagined eating them any other way. But now that I am an adult I can’t imagine limiting myself to just pickling. The greens when fresh can…

One of natures great cleansers is stinging nettles. Nettles grow wild here in Oregon every spring, in places like empty fields, along walking paths and even golf courses.  Oregonians gather them up and make concoctions of tea, broth for soup, and my favorite, nettle fritters. You can do it too even if they don’t grow wild in…

My hubby and I love to do this sort of dinner when we have worked really hard in the garden and we just don’t feel like making a full meal. It is so satisfying though when you pair a glass of wine, some delicious sharp cheese, fruits, and vegetables with an olive bread. You can…