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Autumn Roast Fest

With the Farmers Market season ending, I am preemptively stocking up–making my lunch a ton of roasted autumn vegetables.  Because these starchy roots need nothing but some oil, salt and pepper.  First, rainbow carrots and their slew of phytonutrients: purple, yellow and orange phytonutrients. Though Candy Cane beets (or Chioggia beets) Read more…


On V.V. Summer Assignment, Day 4: Bluegrass to the Blue Ridge

Another jam-packed day ahead of me and needing the boost, I had the tart from Louisville’s Flora Vegan Treats for breakfast. Clearly by observing Exhibit A below you can see it was light and crisply satisfying–like you want these kinds of tarts to be. The filling was blackberry, the ideal partner for the lemon zested Read more…


One Ingredient

Summer is best with one-ingredient eats… Ok, maybe you need some olive and salt, too. candy cane beets. I am a skins-on beet-devotee. So I like making discs so I’m not overwhelmed with the fibrous skin. yellow carrots. I love roasting carrots because the different girths allow for different textures Read more…