Category Archives: vegetables

“Mushroom Soupless” Holiday Green Bean Casserole

Garrison Keillor has often included references to Cream of Mushroom soup in his monologues about Lake Wobegon on “A Prairie Home Companion”.  According to him, Cream of Mushroom soup is one of the things that Scandinavian Lutherans and Germanic Catholics … Continue reading

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Jicama and Zucchini Slaw

There’s all kinds of good things to try when it’s hot and you want something that will cool you off and fill you up.  And it doesn’t hurt if it’s good for you too.  One of those is Jicama and … Continue reading

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Grilled Sweet Potatoes

It’s hot and muggy here in SoCal.  Hot enough and sticky enough to remind me of all those summers in Iowa.  But it won’t get as hot and it won’t last as long.  That’s good news because our apartment isn’t … Continue reading

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Quick and Easy Potato Salad

Comedian Ron White has this really funny monologue where he says that he once gave an alias to a cop by telling him that “They call me “Tater Salad”.  Well today’s recipe is ‘Tater Salad” but they still don’t call … Continue reading

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Spaghetti with Zucchini and Other Good Stuff

Right now I’m channeling Sly and the Family Stone.  The lyrics to “Hot Fun in the Summertime” are rolling through my brain.  This is the time of the year when gardens are loaded with all kinds of good stuff.  And … Continue reading

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