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 [...]
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 [...]
Pumpkin Pie Spice Chip Bread
With the holidays just weeks away, I can’t get enough of squashes, pumpkins, and the pumpkin pie spices(ground cinnamon, ground ginger, cloves, allspice, and nutmeg). I love adding these pumpkin pie spices to scones, muffins, cookies, oatmeal… Besides being a super healthy spices, they are festive and delicious. When I was pregnant with Marjie, I developed [...]
Parsley Pepper Pancakes
I was looking through our crisper today for an apple or carrot to give to my girls to snack on. All I could find was one orange pepper. Note to self, go shopping for apples and carrots, and other healthy fresh snack food. I have been thinking about our family in Taiwan, and craving scallion pancakes [...]
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
I love roasted vegetables, especially roasted brussels sprouts. This is brussels sprout season, and I eat them on a daily basis, so I am in heaven. We chose some brussels sprouts last week during our CSA pickup. They only lasted a day, with the way I eat them. The next day, I went to Harvest Fresh, our [...]
Roasted Winter Squash Seeds
Our CSA, Oakhill Organics offered beautiful Delicata Squash this week, and I took some. I was not quite sure what I was going to do with them until today. This past Summer I stuffed some large zucchini from our garden, with onions, garlic, kale, mushrooms, fresh basil, and white beans. The stuffed Summer squash was [...]
Golden Beet Root Salad with Avocado Dressing
We have had offerings of beets every week for the last month or so, from our wonderful CSA, Oakhill Organics. I love beets, and so does my family, so I take a bunch every week. This week, I decided to make a roasted golden beet salad, with some organic greens. I was thinking about the [...]
Roasted Tomatillo Avocado Salsa
I have wanted to grow tomatillos, since the first Summer my family and I arrived in McMinnville, OR. I was walking down the street with my girls, headed toward downtown, no doubt to get some ice cream or go to the park. We walked past a house just a few blocks away and saw them, [...]
Garlic Flatbread
I made some garlic flatbread tonight to go with curried zucchini soup with sugar snap peas and peanut butter, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. Georgie ate it plain, and the rest of us used it for dipping. I have been trying out flatbread recipes for years. This was a handwritten recipe I recently [...]
Curried Zucchini Soup with Sugar Snap Peas
This curried zucchini soup was inspired by my new friend, who has an amazing green thumb. I was visiting her yesterday. She and her husband have a lovely, warm, welcoming home and a stunningly, beautiful property with a huge, fenced vegetable garden in the middle of their yard. The fence keeps the many fearless, gentle [...]
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.