Caramelizing Red Onions in Balsamic Vinegar…gives these ordinary chicken wraps an amazing flavor!!!
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A delicious roasted ratatouille…that when you take the first bite, you’ll soon forget the 20 minutes you spent chopping the veggies! It was worth every second…
I love being able to grab ingredients, pre-made sides and main dishes from the freezer for a quick throw together meal! And batch cooking makes that possible…
Score a great deal at the farmer’s market, got an amazing harvest in your garden, or maybe your CSA box is overflowing…don’t fret…Wendy from The Local Cook is here to help!!!
Looking for a spicy new topping for your favorite burger?! How about some onions with a lotta zing?!
Now that I’ve caught up…it’s time to get ahead! Not sure exactly when each of these things will get done, but if I have them all done by the end of the week…I’ll be in great shape for the rest of the month!!!
Here’s the Batch Cooking Plan for this week:
Bake Bread
Bake Muffins – Done…and eaten [...]
The amount of produce that is wasted in America each year is staggering, which means that millions of dollars in food is wasted each year, both by manufacturers who have surplus crops and homeowners who purchase food that goes bad.
But if you’ve got a few brown bananas lying around, bringing them to the local food [...]
(Please pardon the iPhone photo. Dead camera battery.)
I went out yesterday morning to survey the garden…and to make sure it survived our weekend away. I was pleasantly surprised to find lots of red grape-roma tomatoes, and a meal’s worth of green beans! I picked some basil, parsley and oregano and then got to work.
So we’re [...]
For the past, um, year or so, I have not done a whole lot with potatoes. And for good reason. Ryan tested positive for a potato allergy, among other things. So I quickly removed them from our diet.
A few weeks ago, we got the go ahead from both the allergist and the GI doctor to [...]
Rather than let the garden herbs grow out of control, make pesto instead. I have found that it doesn’t really matter how much of which kind of herb you use…as long as you have enough basil in there to give it that basil flare.
I did not measure my pesto as I made it…but I’ll tell [...]
