Bone Broth…or, The Key to Great Vegetable Soup!

If you want to make the very richest soup, you gotta make your own bone broth. You can use it for your weekly food prep when you make your rice and quinoa instead of plain old water, too!

1 trip to the Farmers’ Market… 6 meals?!

…plus leftovers and snacks. 😉 My true market excursions these days are limited to once-a-month. As the days grow shorter and colder, I eagerly await the first Saturday of each month as it brings a plethora of fresh treats from local farmers. With any farmers’ market it’s always fun to see what produce they will […]

Brrr… time for stew!

As the temperature falls, I think we start to crave comfort. Here’s one way – savory beef stew.

Sunday Funday = Food Prep!

My treats this week are a combo of markets… My local farmers’ market is sadly over for the season, so my produce, and thus my weekly food prep, must come from different places. Luckily, a neighboring community offers a monthly market indoors and I visited it last weekend. It’s always nice to visit new markets; […]

My Winter Farmers’ Market!

My favorite local market runs May-October, so during the winter I get other opportunities to find my fit…

Chicken Potato Soup!

On the last day of this season’s farmers’ market my favorite farmer brought an extra special treat that he hadn’t delivered the entire year – POTATOES! There were bags full of big, beautiful, lumpy, red and white tubers. I was enticed immediately. I love potatoes; they are the ultimate comfort food. My family feels the […]

Cabbage Soup!

The weather is cool, so that means it’s time to make some soup this week. Give this one a try and you won’t be sorry!

Hearty Chicken and Vegetables

Tomatoes were the initial inspiration for this filling weeknight treat.

Baked Zucchini Boats!

This looks super-rich or extravagant, but remember you’re using zucchini instead of pasta, so although it will fill you up in that “comfort food” way, it won’t wreck you up like pasta will!

Stuffed Peppers

I was a very lucky child who grew up with a mother and a grandmother that knew how to cook food straight out of the garden. Of course I didn’t necessarily appreciate it back then, but now as a mom and fitness fan I know without a doubt that much of how I think about […]