Herbed Quinoa Stuffed Butternut Squash
Today starts our eleventh week of our Oakhill Organics Full Diet CSA adventure. In the last few weeks we have been offered, and have taken home pork, lamb organs, beef and beef organs, milk, eggs(1 dozen per adult),Tiger’s Eye Beans, Jacobs Cattle Beans, polenta, millet flour, corn flour, oat flour, walnuts, teff, teff flour, Liberty [...]
Apple Oat Corn Muffins
My family and I have been fighting a bad cold for the last month. Dominic got it first, and we have just passed it around the house, over the last few weeks. We are on week 7 of our Oakhill Organics Full Diet CSA adventure, and still loving it. The other day I made these [...]
Potato, Onion, and Cheese Frittata
We are in our third week of our Full Diet CSA Membership, with Diversified Organic Farm, Oakhill Organics, and loving it. I have been processing a lot, and cooking a lot of delicious food, but have neglected to take pictures. I have it in my mind that everyone wants to see pictures of the food [...]
Carrot Soup
Last week was our first Oakhill Organics Full Diet CSA pick up. Dominic, our girls and I went together, as a family, to pick up our share. It was really exciting for us, and I had butterflies in my stomach on the way there. Georgia fell asleep about five minutes into the drive. When we thought we [...]
Pork Potstickers
My Sister-In-Law Joanne, is an amazing cook! One time when she and my Brother-In-Law were visiting us from Taiwan, She made potstickers for dinner. These potstickers were flavorful, juicy, and tender, just the way potstickers should be. Of course, nothing compares to Joanne’s potstickers. With that said, take a look at these humble beauties Dominic [...]
Full Diet CSA
As most of you know, my family and I are members of an amazing CSA(Community Supported Agriculture), called Oakhill Organics. We have been happily choosing our five produce items at their McMinnville pick up location for a year. We have signed up to be part of Oakhill Organics “full diet” CSA this year. What is a [...]
Graham Crackers
My girls and I were playing over at a friend’s house a couple weeks ago. We stayed for morning snack, which consisted of bite sized graham crackers, apple slices and cheese slices. My girls and I normally have cheese and apples slices as a snack at least once a week, but we almost never have [...]
Snickerdoodle Cookies
Happy New Year everyone! I have always thought a lot about new year’s resolutions. The first of a new year everyone makes resolutions to lose weight, eat healthier, read more, write more, connect more with loved ones… Whatever your resolutions, I hope you stick to them, and that 2013 is a fabulous year for you. [...]
White Chocolate Cherry Shortbread
I have had desserts, and especially cookies on the brain this holiday season. I am going to have a friend over soon, for a cookie baking party, so I have been doing a lot of baking. Another friend recently shared that she has a cookie dough party every year during the holidays. It sounded like [...]
Fresh Fettucini
I made some succulent beer braised pork this morning and I was going to serve it over brown basmati rice this evening, with some roasted broccoli. While my husband Dominic likes rice, he did not think the rice would do the pork justice. He suggested we make some fresh pasta to go with the pork [...]
Hi! My name is Jillian. I grew up on TV dinners and eating out in restaurants. I just started to cook for myself and my family about four years ago, and am truly living a food filled life.