Avocado and Red Pepper Israeli Couscous Recipe
Posted on February 22, 2010 - Filed Under Recipes, side dishes, vegetables, vegetarian | 3 Comments
Dear Readers, My weekly Cooking with Kids recipe will appear tomorrow. Due to technical difficulties, we had to delay it a day. Thanks for your understanding! -S
Sometimes, the best dishes come out of error. While busy testing recipes this weekend, I had a thought to try serving the Key Lime shrimp that I was playing [...]
Read More..>>Easy Roasted Sunchokes Recipe
Posted on February 17, 2010 - Filed Under Recipes, side dishes, vegetables, vegetarian | 6 Comments
A few years ago, I read a blog post where the author declared their undying love for sunchokes, aka Jerusalem artichokes. I’d never seen or heard of this … thing (not knowing what it was, I couldn’t decide if it was a vegetable or what). Fast forward to a few weeks ago, I discovered sunchokes [...]
Read More..>>Easy Daikon Salad Recipe
Posted on February 3, 2010 - Filed Under Recipes, salad, vegetables, vegetarian | 4 Comments
I have a big confession to make: I’ve been eating daikon radish for more than 10 years but only recently learned what this delicious, crunchy veggie was called. In fact, I only learned what it was called by process of elimination, followed by research, after a friend asked me what it was at a restaurant [...]
Read More..>>Easy Double-Duty Side Dish: Simple Roasted Butternut Squash
Posted on December 15, 2009 - Filed Under Recipes, vegetables | 3 Comments
Butternut squash represents a very rare class of foods for my household: it’s a vegetable that my husband loves. Really, those are in short supply. But our traditional way of making it — with sweeteners to make it candy-like, that is — gets a little old. So lately, I have been trying to find new [...]
Read More..>>Roasted Sweet Potatoes Recipe
Posted on December 8, 2009 - Filed Under Easy Recipes, Healthy Cooking, Recipes, quick and easy, side dishes, vegetables, vegetarian | 4 Comments
It’s really hard to believe that I went for so many years without ever tasting a single sweet potato. My mother didn’t like them, and by extension neither did I. As far as I can remember, I think I had my first one at about age 19 in the fry form (cause seriously, anything in [...]
Read More..>>Quick and Easy Roasted Brussels Sprouts Recipe
Posted on November 16, 2009 - Filed Under vegetables | 4 Comments
It’s no secret that I absolutely love Brussels sprouts. When grown and cooked right, they are slightly sweet and a little nutty. Divine. In case you are wondering what I mean by grown right, Brussels sprouts should stay on the stalk until two frosts have passed. It’s the frosts that let them develop that slightly [...]
Read More..>>Four Years, and Easy Roasted Acorn Squash Mash Recipe
Posted on November 9, 2009 - Filed Under vegetables, vegetarian | 9 Comments
Today is a special day. It’s Sarah’s Cucina Bella’s birthday!
It was four years ago today that I sat down at my computer, opened a Blogger account and started writing Cucina Bella. Back then, I didn’t think much about how long I would be writing this blog for. Perhaps it would be weeks, perhaps months–but I [...]
Tomato and Eggplant Pie Recipe
Posted on September 29, 2009 - Filed Under vegetables, vegetarian | 1 Comment
Remember recently when I told you about the fabulous Eggplant Parmesan that I made using Maris’ awesome (and healthier!) recipe. It was so good that I bought more eggplant at the farmers market. I also picked up some green tomatoes to try out an idea I have for a healthier fried green tomato recipe.
Unfortunately, it [...]
Slow-Roasted Plum Tomatoes
Posted on September 25, 2009 - Filed Under vegetables, vegetarian | 11 Comments
Oh, dear roasted tomatoes, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways …
I could wax poetic about these slow roasted plum tomatoes for hours on end. They are sweet and tender, soft and perfect. And, yes, I ate the whole batch myself. In a day. They were just that good.
Tomatoes are part and [...]
Checking Off the Summer List: Eggplant Parmesan
Posted on September 16, 2009 - Filed Under vegetables, vegetarian | 5 Comments
It’s hard to believe that summer vacation is past tense and summer, the season, is soon coming to a close. I had really high hopes for this summer. There were thoughts of visiting lesser known museums and parks around Connecticut, spending lots of time on the shoreline and a daytrip to Mystic (for Will to [...]
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