Category Archives: Seasonal Recipes

Roasted Butternut Squash Mac & Cheese

This week we had butternut squash in the CSA bag and I wanted to use it multiple ways. One night we had roasted butternut squash with honey-glazed salmon. This dinner was great, but I feel like the real "magic" happened with my leftovers. I know, I don't know if I have ever used magic and leftovers in the same sentence. I had dreamed of making this great recipe for Creamy, Light Macaroni & Cheese I had ran across when searching for butternut
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Pick a Pepper

This week in the CSA bag was huge bell peppers.  Peppers are usually classified as bell, also known as sweet (mild) or pungent (hot).  They are available in various shapes, sizes, and colors.  Depending on the variety of pepper the color can be green, red, orange, yellow, and more rarely, ivory, brown, white, lavender and dark purple.  Most typically, unripe bell peppers are green and most red peppers are ripened green peppers.  Green bell peppers are
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Black Grape Pie

A week ago I posted a blog that was for the California Table Grape Commission and Recipe Redux. When I preparing for the post I was searching for recipes that I could modify and taste. I came across recipes that were for appetizers, salads, main dishes, and desserts. I originally found the following recipe in a 1999 Taste of Home Magazine. It is called Ruby Grape Pie, and was submitted by Salvage Island Farm, Fred Smeds, of Reedley, California.     more