Easy Santa Vegetable Tray This Santa Vegetable tray is always a hit at Christmas time! It’s quick to make for a party snack and appetizer, or just to make for fun with your family so your kids can fight over who gets to eat Santa’s eyes. The vegetable platter is made with raw vegetables so it’s quick to put together! You could even cut up the cauliflower, peppers and cucumbers ahead of time if you are going to be tight on time!...

Baked Broccoli Cheese Recipe Do you love broccoli? Me too! These Baked Broccoli Cheddar Cheese Sticks are a great snack for broccoli lovers, perfect to serve as a appetizer for a party or as a afternoon snack. With our broccoli almost ready to be picked in the garden, I predict there’s going to be many Baked Broccoli and Cheese Sticks in my near future! You only need a few ingredients for this recipe, the sticks are super cheesy, they’re packed with 3 cups of fresh broccoli – what’s more to say?...

Creamy Eggplant and Tomatoes You are going to love this easy eggplant and tomatoes recipe! Eggplant and onions are browned together then cooked in a cheesy cream sauce with juicy tomatoes – yum yum yum!! We love this simple dish over spaghetti or rice for a quick weeknight meal during the Summer garden season. It’s also delicious as a side dish served next to baked chicken or salmon too! However you serve it, I just hope you try it soon!...

Easy homemade lasagna There’s SO much to love about lasagna. Who can resist the layers of tender noodles, stretchy melted cheese, and tangy tomato sauce? Lasagna’s only downfall? It can take a lot of time to prepare and cook! This Easy Lasagna recipe is simple, basic, and a weekly staple in my house. Made with easy out-of-the-box ingredients like ricotta cheese, jarred pasta sauce, mushrooms, mozzarella cheese, and oregano, this is the ultimate time-saving dinner that never skips out on flavor....

Tuna Cucumber Tomato Salad Recipe This Tuna Cucumber Tomato Salad is the perfect fresh Summer salad. Or if it’s not summertime, then it’s the perfect close your eyes and pretend it’s Summer salad! It’s one of my favorite picnic side dishes! It includes a few garden favorites; tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion and fresh parsley so it’s ripe with flavor. It also includes Albacore tuna which has a delicious, mild and clean flavor....

Bloody Finger Cheese Sticks Looking for a terrifying food idea for Halloween? Then you need to make these bloody finger cheese sticks! My kids absolutely loved them, with my little one yelling “more fingers!!”. 😂 You can throw these together in just minutes with minimum ingredients. They make such a fun snack or a great appetizer plate to add to the Halloween party table! How many should you make? Each cheese stick makes 2 bloody fingers, so 6 cheese sticks would make 12 fingers!...

Wasabi Edamame I’m a fan of wasabi. I love the spicy kick out of it. Not only do I love it for sushi, but I love making snacks with it too – like wasabi popcorn and these roasted wasabi soybeans! Roasted snacks tend to be pricey (like roasted wasabi edamame in the store that I can easily finish in one sitting!) so I started making my own with our overabundance of soybeans that we grow in the garden!...

Fresh Cucumber Sandwich When your garden gives you cucumbers you make half sour pickles, cucumber tomato salad, cucumber bread, cucumber cookies (!!) and a fresh cucumber sandwich! Cucumbers are the best, they just keep giving and giving! This cucumber sandwich tastes so light and fresh. It’s made with simple white bread, and a cream cheese / garlic spread. You can eat it for lunch (especially great during the Summer!), a late night snack, or as simple finger food for a picnic....

As a kid one of my favorite treats was soft pretzels. We didn’t make them from scratch in my house, instead Mom always had a frozen box in the freezer. These were easy, take them out and throw them in microwave for 1 minute and then cover in their little salt packets. Boom, a soft pretzel was made. Easy Homemade Soft Pretzels Recipe Well these homemade soft pretzels take a little longer than 1 minute to make but I promise you they’re easy to make!...

We have so much bok choy right now. Maybe it was a crazy idea planting over 90 plants. But maybe it was a great idea so we can enjoy it in our favorite udon noodle soup throughout the Fall and Winter months. Right now it’s hard to imagine cold weather as it’s humid and hot in NYC, but it’s easy to freeze bok choy whole so you throw it in your udon soup once the weather starts to get cold....

What is a Sub Irrigated Planter? Sub-irrigated planters (SIPs) have been a game changer for us since we started using them almost 10 years ago. The main difference between them and traditional container gardening planters is that with SIPs water is introduced from the bottom and is absorbed up through the growing media via capillary action. This method conserves water and makes sure that moisture stays where your plants need it most – their roots....

Tell The Birds To Go Away If we’re not battling rats that are eating our corn, then we’re dealing with birds. If the birds aren’t after our baby bean and pea seedlings then they’re pecking at our cherry tomatoes. You might not see the birds (they’re sneaky sometimes) but you can definitely spot their calling card on your tomatoes. We grow beautiful cherry tomatoes, so pretty that the birds can’t keep their eyes or beaks off them....

Scrambled Egg Ground Beef Casserole Do you guys know about Joe’s Special? It’s a famous dish that started in San Francisco in the 1920s that consisted of eggs, ground beef, spinach and garlic. A few places make their own version, including a Brooklyn based restaurant that my husband fell in love with. I wanted to try our own personal spin on it, removing the spinach and replacing it with green beans and peppers (2 things we love growing in the garden)....

Puffy Zucchini Fritters You need to try these puffy zucchini fritters that are so delicious, made fresh with your Summer harvest zucchini! We love Zucchini Corn Fritters, but I wanted to make fritters where zucchini was the only star – so these were made (and immediately eaten!). These fritters possess a light and airy texture, thanks to the magic that happens when the zucchini releases its natural moisture during cooking. The grated zucchini blends with the other ingredients, creating a batter that puffs up beautifully as it fries....

Easy Zucchini Pasta for Dinner Looking for a family-friendly meal that’s both healthy and delicious? Look no further than this zucchini pasta recipe! Packed with fresh sauted zucchini slices, this dish is a great way to sneak some veggies into your family’s diet. With the Summer months comes lots of zucchini from the garden! We love making Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins, Chocolate Zucchini Cake and Zucchini Corn Fritters but we especially love it in this pasta dish!...

Air Fryer Stuffed Mushrooms I made these stuffed mushrooms as a dinner side dish a couple nights ago (I served them with yukon gold potato soup) and they were a big hit! I mean what’s not to love about juicy mushrooms stuffed with 3 types of cheese? I’m going to keep this post short and get straight to the details. If you’re looking to make stuffed mushrooms in the air fryer for a dinner side dish, appetizer, or a party food – you need to try these!...

You’ll want some delicious avocados to start with. The first step is cutting each avocado in half and then taking out 1-2 tablespoons of each avocado half so we can scoop more salsa in them. Now we’ll grab our delicious Mexican Corn Salad! It’s just that easy…start filling each avocado up with the salsa. I like to cut up a few slices of leftover avocado to add a little bit on top....

Chocolate buttercream frosting for brownies We all know that brownies are one of the greatest desserts of all time. They are, what I think, to be the perfect dessert! Dense and full of chocolatey goodness, I just can’t stop making them! What really turns a brownie into a next-level treat is the frosting. Buttercream frosting for brownies is made by mixing together fats and sugar to achieve a rich and thick texture....

Creamed Peas Recipe These peas are so creamy and delicious! They are made in a simple cream sauce and ready to be served on the dinner table in 10 minutes! If you’re looking for a creamy side dish to go along with your other favorites – Fresh Green Bean and Potato Casserole, Cheesy Broccoli and Cheddar Cheese Cauliflower Casserole – then you need to try these! Sometimes for dinner we like to take these Creamed Peas and make a complete dinner out of them by serving them on top of toast and mashed potatoes – it’s pure comfort food!...

Is there anything better than fresh warm bread that’s just been baked? Bread making doesn’t have to be time consuming or complicated. Instead, we love using our bread maker and turning our kitchen into a home bakery. A bread machine is pretty much fail proof, always producing a fluffy loaf. That’s why I absolutely think you need a bread machine in your life! Is a Bread Machine Worth it? My short answer is “Yes!...