Tag Archives: zucchini
Zest for Life Today featured on Four Cooking Together
A week ago, I was honored to be featured on the lovely blog of one of my friends. She and her family chronicle their adventures cooking organic, local, whole foods together. I shared a Roasted Seasonal Vegetable with Pesto recipe with her readership, which includes the recipients of the Freshness Farms CSA delivery. Ann inspires [...]
Paleo “Pizza” (grain-free, dairy-free, vegetarian)
I’m doing this whole paleo thing for 6 weeks. Today is day 5. The goal is to starve the candida in my gut so that my immune system will relax. This is good news, really. Finally, after years of dealing with the symptoms (digestive discomforts like gas, bloating, cramping, pain, malabsorption, etc.) of Crohn’s Disease, [...]
This week’s eats!
In keeping with tradition, I “cooked” up a storm last night (as I do every Sunday) and how have a fridge full of tupperwares containing beautiful, healthful, and delicious food. I put cooked in quotations because two of the recipes didn’t involve any heat – so perhaps “prepared” is a better word. This underscores one [...]
Zuchinni and Potatoes Au Gratin
Inspired by a sample of cheesy potatoes at Trader Joe’s, I thought I’d put my CSA taters and zucchini to good use. White, Green, and Fromage 5-6 small potatoes, sliced very thinly 1 medium zucchini, sliced very thinly 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup white wine 1/4 cup vegan cream cheese (or regular) 1/4 cup [...]
The day’s nourishment
Breakfast Acorn Squash Party one acorn squash, cut in half, seeds removed, and baked in the oven at 400 for 45 minutes or until very soft one apple, chopped into small pieces raisins sucanat (or other sweetener) cinnamon butter sea salt almond milk Scoop half of the butternut squash into a bowl. Add half the [...]
