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Working families need quick, healthy meals to make mid-week when activities and homework are abundant. Better yet is a recipe your 9-year-old son can cook for you! Here’s a recipe for my quick burritos, made with pinto beans (My black bean burrito recipe is available here.) Ingredients 1/4 small yellow onion, diced 1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil 2 15-oz. cans of ...

Every summer I struggle with the same problem … it’s too hot to cook inside, I’m sick of burgers and dogs, and I’m running out of ideas for things to cook on the grill. My husband I have recently discovered that we love to cook. We get the food network magazine and in the summer issue there was this delicious ...

This recipe is awesome – something different and a great way to combine two of the best summer foods!! (Although an odd combination for sure!!) *This is not my recipe, I got it from a co-instructor that I believe took it from Martha Stewart’s website, although I did change it a smidgen*. Ingredients: 1 mini-seedless watermelon, cut and cubed (1/4 ...

Pesto is one of my favorite dishes. It’s so versatile and very easy to make. So easy, in fact, that even after driving 12 hours last Wednesday, I made fresh basil for dinner that night. Wednesday is also our CSA share delivery day from the Intervale Food Hub. We actually received a bounty of goods last week (it was a ...

This easy and healthy recipe is one my kids love. They’ll go back for seconds, and thirds, if there is enough black bean mix to go around that many servings. This meal is one of my favorite mid-week meals, since it’s so quick to put together and can also be easily improvised and tailored to your tastes. 1 15.25-oz. can ...

Most kids love grilled cheese sandwiches and mine are no exception. Rather than a standard grilled cheese, we usually make Panini-style sandwiches with a local twist. Ingredients: Fresh basil from my basil plant Tomatoes, thinly sliced Maplebrook handmade smoked mozzarella, thinly sliced Red Hen Baking Co. Ciabatta bread, sliced butter Directions: Heat a griddle pan. Butter the outside sides of your bread. ...

Yeah, you heard me right.  40 pounds of ground beef.  38 to be exact.  (In case you missed it, here’s how I got it all.) Either way – that is a lot of ground beef to work with.  My traditional fare of 1 lb hamburger meat, 1 jar of pasta sauce and 1 box of on sale pasta was only ...

It felt like summer a week or so back. Maybe not so much this week, but that tease of summery weather got me thinking about refreshing beverages. I love me some bubbles, whether they are Champagne bubbles or club soda bubbles. Bubbles equal refreshing in my mind. Mojitos are a great refreshing summer cocktail. There’s nothing wrong with a classic ...

In a busy household, quick mid-week dinners are a necessity. It’s sometimes hard to find recipes that are easy to prepare, reasonably healthy, and made with local ingredients. So when I prepare something that all 4 of my kids will eat without complaint (and maybe even ask for seconds), then I consider it a win. My easy sesame chicken recipe ...

It seems that every holiday, we end up with an abundance of leftover candy, whether I bought it, it was given to the kids, or it came by way of the Easter Bunny or through an egg hunt. By the time day 3 or 4 has rolled around, I’m plain old sick of the candy. And even though I realize ...