Eco-friendly, family-friendly food and living
Recipes for vegetable side dishes.
Using a simple ratio of grated vegetables to eggs and bread crumbs, all sorts of summer and fall vegetables can get the fritter treatment. Add flavour with additions like herbs, cheese and spices and you’ll have a dozen new ways to eat more vegetables.
Roasting cauliflower in butter and spices makes it easy to eat your vegetables. Spice roasted cauliflower is slightly sweet and mildly spiced with both hot and smoked paprika and a hint of cinnamon. Tossing it with olive oil and melted butter before roasting adds a richness to the flavour, turning […]
Zucchini crust pizza has great flavour and texture and is a delicious alternative to bread-based pizza crust. It takes just minutes to mix up. The crust can be made ahead and reheated with the toppings.
Garlic baked zucchini is my favourite way to eat this summer staple. When zucchini is baked for a long time with garlic and onions it gets almost creamy. When I was in high school my mom used to make this dish for me. It was a great veggie […]
Marinated broccoli salad is a lovely and delicious alternative to leafy salads. With all of our big family potlucks it’s great to have a stash of salad recipes that venture from the lettuce sort. In fact, a group of friends and I were joking the other night about a potluck […]
I’m Bridget, a busy mom who is trying to raise my kids to be adventurous eaters who appreciate good food.
