Black Beans in the Pressure Cooker
It’s been raining all day, which makes it a good day to cook beans. Beans are a great side dish for many meals and if you make a few extra they are great in quinoa salads and soups as well. I like...
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Early Fall Vegetable & Quinoa Salad
Sunday is usually spent working out the final recipes for mid-week market demos or planning family meals based on what purchases happened at the farmers’ markets over the weekend. Yes, I’m a market...
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Root Vegetable Hash
This recipe was inspired by a lovely breakfast I had at Cafe Helios a couple of weeks back. It really hit the spot on a chilly Sunday morning when I didn’t feel like cooking but I did feel like eating...
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Cornmeal Cakes with Fresh Corn & Heirloom Okra
Hey, it’s summer! Okra thrives like eggplant in this weather. With beautiful colors ranging from deep burgundy red to light pine blue-green, okra can really add color to your plate. It’s known as...
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Brown Butter & Maple Syrup Corn Muffins
Over the years, I’ve accumulated a few different recipes for corn bread. Many of them can be adapted easily to make muffins by reducing the cooking time. This tends to work out better for parties or...
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Warm Brussels Sprout Salad as Winter Begins & Ends
Every farmers’ market I visited in the early spring had Brussels sprouts just as the weather was beginning to turn just a slight bit warm. This week for Thanksgiving the temperature has plummeted here...
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Baked Polenta topped with Seasonal Vegetables
As it normally happens each year, I ran out of olive oil at the end of fall. I actually try to run out just around Thanksgiving so I’ll be ready to usher in the holiday cooking bonanza with freshly...
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Corn Madeleines with Sorghum & Lime Peel
This recipe started life as a corn muffin recipe generated from a computer. I wanted to create a muffin that was a little different from any of my other three recipes to go with Chesapeake Crab Soup. I...
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Baby Turnip & Mushroom Stem Gratin
Do you hate that horrible dreaded chore of cleaning out the fridge? The time when you find things that you didn’t get around to eating, or the food that fell down behind something else, things in bags...
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3 Hummus Recipes for Carrboro’s “Market Bunch”
First, let me thank the wonderful managers and support staff at Carrboro Farmers’ Market for making class time happen in the first place. It isn’t without a lot of planning, funding and support help...
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