Category Archives: Pasta, Rice & Grains

Pumpkin Pie Baked Steel Cut Oats from The Whole Grain Promise: More Than 100 Recipes to Jumpstart a Healthier Diet + a giveaway

Pumpkin Pie Baked Steel Cut Oats from The Whole Grain Promise: More Than 100 Recipes to Jumpstart a Healthier Diet + a giveaway

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Heather, Diane, and Tracy, who all won a copy of the fabulous book The Whole Grain Promise. full disclosure: I was provided a complimentary copy of The Whole Grain Promise: More Than 100 Recipes to Jumpstart a Healthier Diet by its publisher, Running Press. As always, all opinions areContinue Reading

Roasted Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese

Roasted Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese

On a rainy, rainy night the first week in December, we – and by “we”, I mean JR, me, and 10 others – first sampled the dish that would inspire this one. Ooohs and ahhhhs ensued as the dish was passed around the table, just one bite for each of us, then back to theContinue Reading

Thank You + Fun News

Thank You + Fun News

There’s been an awful lot going on here the last few weeks: travel to LA for my father’s birthday, harvesting the last of the tender crops from our garden, drying herbs, pregnancy-watching one of our sows, curing and smoking bacon (interconnected, yes. Apologies to those of you who don’t love the connection). While we wereContinue Reading

Linguine with Fennel and Kale + a Dreamfields giveaway

Linguine with Fennel and Kale + a Dreamfields giveaway

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Janet Faye who won the selection of seven Dreamfields pasta cuts and a $25 gift card! Thank you to everyone who entered – it was fun to read all of your favorite pasta dishes! Coming from a family whose nearly every meal felt the very strong influence ofContinue Reading

Whole Grains Month + a contest

Whole Grains Month + a contest

Not just any contest. Oh no. This is a contest that involves healthful eating, and cash and whole grain goodies for the winner, plus voting for a new favorite whole grain recipe (that’s how you enter to win the cash and goodies), which, I’ll be perfectly honest, I hope is this Wild Rice and FallContinue Reading