Eco-friendly, family-friendly food and living
Recipes for vegetable side dishes.
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. When I was eight I had my long wavy hair cut boy-short so I wouldn’t have to wear a bathing cap in my cousins’ pool. My thinking at the time was that bathing caps […]
Baked zucchini takes on an almost floral flavour when its baked for an hour with onion and garlic. When I was in high school my mom used to make this for me. It was a great veggie side for fall and something that I could easily make on my own […]
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 […]
Baking ratatouille in the oven keeps it from going to mush.In the house where I grew up we had a huge vegetable garden in our sunny side yard. I don’t know how mom and dad managed it since I don’t recall helping very much, except picking peas or beans for […]
I’m Bridget, a busy mom who is trying to raise my kids to be adventurous eaters who appreciate good food.
