Salads and Vegetables

This is a simple and absolutely delicious Israeli yellow split pea soup recipe. It takes only a few ingredients to put it together plus a few seasonings. It’s also very easy to turn it to a vegan yellow split pea soup. It’s a very healthy yellow split pea soup and of course, filling. I have […]

Hands down, this is my favorite vegetarian dish (well, I use chicken stock but you can use vegetable stock to make it vegetarian)! These spinach patties are delicious with the sauce or without it. They take some work to make but it’s totally worth it. Let me walk you through the process… The printable is

This is a very easy, delicious, and healthy carrot top pesto recipe. If you grow your own carrots or buy them with the tops at the farmer’s market, it’s a great way to use the tops. Carrots are a must in my home garden! I think that of all the vegetables that we grow we

This is a delicious pumpkin and lentil salad recipe with, celery, and cranberries. I make my own honey mustard dressing to go with it. It’s a very healthy salad that is a whole meal all on its own but can also be served as a side dish. Every fall, we visit a pumpkin patch. Even

In this post, I’ll show you how to make red pepper paste. This red pepper paste recipe is delicious and very easy to put together. You can use it to spread on a slice of bread when you make a sandwich or in pasta sauce or any other way you’ll want. It’s also a great

Find 41 purple sweet potato recipes, sweet and savory. This list will give you an idea of what you can do with purple sweet potatoes. Choose a recipe and get to work! There are so many delicious purple sweet potato recipes! Maybe you are growing purple sweet potatoes in your garden, or maybe you came

This is a very simple recipe for almond basil pesto. I choose to make my basil pesto with almonds instead of pine nuts because I’d like to save some money. I personally don’t feel the difference! It is a delicious pesto recipe that I make a whole lot of every year. I keep my jars

These simple mashed purple sweet potatoes are super easy to make and are creamy and healthy. This is an amazing side dish that is going to add color and deliciousness to any dinner! A few years ago I came by purple sweet potatoes at a local farmer’s market here in NC and couldn’t resist buying

This baked purple sweet potato recipe is so simple! You can make it just as I do or you can top it with whatever it is that you like. It takes just a few minutes to put together and place in the oven. Baked purple sweet potato is an amazing side dish or a meal

This roasted purple sweet potato recipe is simple and takes just a few minutes to put together. Roasted purple sweet potatoes can be a great side dish for any meal or can serve as your main dish, it’s up to you. I serve them with a delicious homemade garlic dipping sauce. My affair with purple

This is a simple recipe for a delicious, filling, and super healthy Mediterranean egg salad. Fresh, healthy ingredients and a simple and healthy dressing. This salad can be a meal on its own or you can add it as a side for a larger meal. Follow the pictures in the post or you can scroll

Hands down, this is my favorite way of preparing green beans. This fresh green bean recipe is quick and easy and super healthy. It can be a great way to cook green beans for a holiday or any day as a side dish, but honestly, I love making it as a snack! I make a

In this post, you will find 32 winter salad ideas to try this winter. Winter vegetables are so delicious and filling. Vegetables like kale, carrots, beets, fennel, celery, brussels sprouts… They are super healthy for our body and very filling. Some of those salads are no side dish. They are a full meal all on

I came to this amazing, beautiful country in 2005. Right away, on my first week here I noticed two very wrong things with America. The first wrong thing was that the people at McDonald’s couldn’t figure out how to insert a tomato into my breakfast sandwich. Oh, you won’t believe the hell that broke loose

This Israeli beet salad is simple to put together and is delicious. We add onion and cilantro and we season it with oil, vinegar, cumin, salt, and pepper. It’s a healthy beetroot salad that gets even better if you let it sit a little bit. I love beets. I love their color, I love their

This was the cucumber year around here. In the beginning of the season, a couple of weeks after the last frost date, we transplanted 76 cucumber plants that we started in our germination room. This was the first year we grew this variety, it’s called Marketmore 76 and I purchased them from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.

Fall is officially here, and pumpkins are everywhere. So many pumpkin recipes are shared through social media. I tried a couple, but still have a big bowl of pumpkin puree in the refrigerator. I usually get a big pumpkin and make a puree, then substitute it in all the recipes I try for the canned

What’s summer without a sweet, red watermelon? Did you know watermelons are both a vegetable and a fruit? They are part of the cucumber and squash family. Watermelons contain 92% water, lots of vitamin A and C and are a good source of potassium. They contain no fat or cholesterol. There are more than 1200 verities of