I am very particular about my veggies – I like my carrots raw, my broccoli roasted, and my spinach blended with banana and milk (and that’s a post for another day). Those are really the only veggies that enter the house on a regular basis but I couldn’t pass up a beautiful bunch of broccolini [...]
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Peanut Butter Crusted Sweet Potato Fries
If you forced me to make a list of my top 5 favorites foods, sweet potatoes and peanut butter would be numbers 1 and 2. I cannot believe I’d never though to combine them – they are seriously a match made in heaven.
It’s hard to explain what happens to the peanut butter in [...]
Bread and Butter Pickles
I don’t like cucumbers. At all. I always try to like them – I put them on sandwiches, I cover them in hummus, the usual – but I just can’t do it. So when my mom gave us a huge bag filled with huge cucumbers I wasn’t sure what to do with all of [...]
Tempura Fried Asparagus
I have been saying that I wanted to try making tempura fried vegetables since the first time I had it at a sushi place 3 years ago but my hatred of frying has kept me from doing it. I had some asparagus on it’s last leg this week and decided to just get it [...]
Baked Hushpuppies
On the rare occasion that we go out for seafood, the hushpuppies are the first thing gone from mine and my husband’s plates. We love them! And what’s not to love about a fried piece of dough with onion and spices?! I’m not one for frying things at home though so I never considered [...]
