Category Archives: Nutrition

Check out that huge head of cabbage!

This week with all the goodies we received from Wenninghoff’s CSA I was able to make salsa, bruschetta, Carrot-Cumin Slaw, butternut squash, green beans, stir fry with broccoli, onions, and red pepper.  Below are recipes for the Carrot-Cumin Slaw, thank you Martha Stewart and a very simple recipe for Butternut Squash.       Check out that huge head of cabbage!   Carrot-Cumin Slaw Ingredients 3 c.         green cabbage, cored and shredded 1 ¾ c.     carrots, coarsely grated 1             jalapeno, seeded and minced ¼ c.        canola oil 2 T.         freshly squeezed lime
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Stuffed Peppers

I've always liked the idea of stuffed peppers, but the one time I tried making them it just wasn't anything special. They were fine, but nothing really worth making again. Recently, I had a few beautiful bell peppers from the CSA bag that I wanted to use and was talking with one of my coworkers about dinner ideas.  She said she made stuffed peppers the other night that were just "wonderful." I thought, "mine didn't turn out wonderful..." So I
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Tasty Ways to Use Up Cucumbers

  We’ve got cucumbers coming out of our ears, literally.  My daughter loves to help me in the kitchen.  So I give her simple tasks, such as peeling the onion, breaking off the ends of the green beans, and mixing the ingredients. In this week’s CSA bag, we received cucumbers, green beans, basil, tomatoes, squash, peppers, onion and zucchini.  Cucumbers are one of my favorite vegetables but we’ve been
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