Ramp sauce you probably just asked? What the heck is a ramp? Full disclosure – when I read I would be getting ramps in my produce delivery I had to look up what they were. Ramp 101 Named allium tricoccum…
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gluten free spaghetti with ramp sauce & sauteed shitake mushrooms
Tagged with: dinner, gluten free, kid friendly, pasta, ramps, spaghetti, spring onion, vegan, wild garlic, wild leek
Posted in barefoot kitchen, main events
Posted in barefoot kitchen, main events
portabella steak and potato salad with grilled avocado
Overheard: “Nobody makes friends over salad” This salad is my response to this statement. If you make this salad, you will not only make friends, you will make friends for life, maybe even lovers. A potluck is a great place…
Tagged with: dairy free, gluten free, grilled avocado, hearty, hungry man, portabella mushroom, salad, steak, vegan, virtual vegan potluck, VVP
Posted in barefoot kitchen, main events, salads
Posted in barefoot kitchen, main events, salads
red white and gold smoothie
Over the past few weeks I have been receiving a variety of beets, both gold and red in my weekly produce delivery. I love beets both peeled and roasted, raw and shredded, or in a smoothie. I love the red…
Tagged with: beets, blender, breakfast, chard, CSA, golden beet, plant-based, produce box, protein, red beet, smoothie, vanilla, vegan, vitamix
Posted in barefoot kitchen, smoothies
Posted in barefoot kitchen, smoothies
10 vegan cinco de mayo recipes that will knock your sombrero off
Looking for some amazing Mexican-inspired recipes to whip up for your friends while sipping margaritas? Here are 10 of my favorite healthy plant-based recipes inspired from south of the border. Hola Appetizers and Mexican Munchies
Tagged with: appetizer, avocado, bean, bean dip, chips, corn, dairy free, daiya, gluten free, guacamole, healthy, jalepeno poppers, margarita, mexican, mockamole, mushroom, party food, plant-based, spicy, taco, vegan
Posted in appetizers, barefoot kitchen, main events, salads
Posted in appetizers, barefoot kitchen, main events, salads
cinco de mayo guacamole stuffed mushrooms with vegan pepperjack
Looking for a simple and fun appetizer for cinco de mayo that will wow the sombrero’s off your margarita drinking friends? How does roasted mushrooms, creamy and spicy guac, melty pepperjack and hot sauce sound? Mexican bites don’t get much better than this. quickie…
Tagged with: appetizer, baked, cinco de mayo, dairy free, daiya, gluten free, mexican, mushrooms, nut free, party food, soy free, vegan, vegan cheese
Posted in appetizers, barefoot kitchen
Posted in appetizers, barefoot kitchen
why every Saturday is my Christmas morning
Every Saturday afternoon I am like a kid on Christmas morning. This is when my local organic produce box arrives from Chicagoland’s Irv and Shelly’s Fresh Picks. The food is healthy, fresh, in-season, and leaps-and-bounds better than what I find in…
Tagged with: chicago, chicagoland, community shared agriculture, CSA, farmers, farmers market, farmigo, green, Irv & Shelly's Fresh Picks, local, meal planning, no GMO, organic, produce, produce delivery, sustainable, sustainable agriculture, the local beet
Posted in barefoot kitchen, barefoot life, product reviews
Posted in barefoot kitchen, barefoot life, product reviews
breaking the cleanse raw green smoothie
Following my first three-day juice adventure, I had to ease back into the world of digestion. To do this, I crafted a super green smoothie that used many of the same ingredients found in the BluePrint Cleanse green juice. This…
Have you ever been so hungry you could throw up?
What did you do? Eat? 1 in 6 Americans are hungry. I am not one of them and am not going to pretend to be. A few months back I heard about a food blog event that aims to unite…
Tagged with: #takeyourplace, a place at the table, charity, food blogger, food stamps, hunger in america, jeff bridges, no kid hungry, public policy, soup kitchen
Posted in barefoot kitchen, barefoot life
Posted in barefoot kitchen, barefoot life
Is it winter? Or is it Spring? Spinach salad with toasted pistachios and beet dressing
Ahh Spring. That transitional season where you hear birds in the morning and the sun is up when you get home from work, and you might be able to leave home without a heavy coat. There is still a bite…
Tagged with: avocado, beets, hearty, pistachios, salad, spinach, spring, winter
Posted in barefoot kitchen, salads
Posted in barefoot kitchen, salads
kitchen economics 101: make stock not war
How to make your own veggie stock using kitchen scraps If throwing unused vegetables in the garbage leaves an empty pit in your stomach, this is one of the best ways to use up veggie leftovers. It feels so great to reduce…
Tagged with: diy, kitchen scraps, vegetable stock, veggie stock, waste nothing
Posted in barefoot kitchen
Posted in barefoot kitchen
