This Lebanese Salad with Tomatoes and Cucumbers is a simple salad that can be put together in minutes. It’s full of vegetables that can come straight from your garden too! This month’s Recipe Redux challenge was to come up a fun way to use all those vegetables and fruits from your garden. (Update: Recipe Redux is …
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This Roasted Vegetables with Apples recipe is a surprisingly awesome combination of sweet and savory and makes a perfect side dish to any meal! Apples and Michigan go quite hand in hand. For as long as I can remember my family and I visited the apple orchard and my absolute favorite part was hand-picking apples from …
This kale and kohlrabi salad is a crisp and nutritious salad that includes interesting and versatile vegetables. It’s an excellent addition to any meal! Yes, this is the second salad this week, and no it’s not because of the new year and some sort of healthy phase. If you’ve been reading Chocolate Slopes for a …
With just the right amount of sweetness, this maple roasted butternut squash pairs well with any meal or can be eaten by itself even as a snack! Winter has absolutely hit Michigan (finally), which honestly I’m thrilled about since that means snow AND skiing!! Like I’ve mentioned before I am in love with skiing ever since …
These roasted carrots are such a simple way to add more nutritious and lower-calorie food to your holiday season. Christmas is THIS week! It always seems to sneak up on me and I’m sure I’m not alone. And we also have three December birthdays in our family before Christmas arrives (my youngest son E, my …
Roasted vegetables are a staple in my house these days. They are an easy, nutritious side dish to just about any meal. And you can basically season them a million different ways. I started roasting vegetables when steaming got a bit boring. Thankfully, roasting is just as healthy as steaming them since there are very …