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Black Bean and Sweet Potato Stew

April 24, 2020 by Sheila

Black Bean and Sweet Potato Stew

It’s a rainy almost Spring day that feels chilly and calls for a warming stew. I tried (probably too hard) to push myself and do a dark photograph. I went through my props and pulled all of my black and gray plates and bowls. Organizing feels good. This stew can be wrapped in a tortilla, […]

Filed Under: Beans, Beans, Peas, and Lentils, Photography, Soups and Stews, Vegetable Main Dishes Tagged With: black beans, cilantro, cornbread, dried beans, pumpkin seeds, salsa, scallions, sour cream, sweet potato

Homemade Granola

August 5, 2019 by Sheila

Granola

Have you ever made your own granola? Don’t worry, we won’t judge if you’re an old hippie. Although I never made any in my hippie days, back in the early 1970’s I had my first yogurt topped with granola at a rustic cafe in a little upstate New York town where I went camping with […]

Filed Under: Good Morning! Tagged With: almonds, cinnamon, coconut, coconut oil, coconut sugar, dried cranberries, dried fruit, dried gogi berries, honey, maple syrup, nuts, oat flour, oats, olive oil, puffed brown rice, puffed kamut. puffed quinoa, puffed millet, pumpkin seeds, rolled oats, slivered almonds, vanilla extract, wheat bran, wheat germ

Wild Rice, Nut and Dried Fruit Stuffed Cheese Pumpkin

May 6, 2016 by Sheila

Wild Rice Stuffed Winter Squas

What happened to Spring? Well, I have this cheese pumpkin that has been wintering in my mudroom, there was a huge pot of wild rice leftover from my the Grains, Beans and Legumes class, and I like to use up my dried fruit this time of year to clear out the pantry shelves for the […]

Filed Under: Grains, Vegetable Main Dishes Tagged With: apple, Brazil nuts, cheese pumpkin, crystallized ginger, cuurants, dried apricots, dried cranberries, dried dates, dried figs, orange, pumpkin seeds, red onion, wild rice, winter squash

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