I love our weekly CSA box. It’s like Christmas morning every Friday when I go to pick up the box. But like those wonderfully appreciated but fateful Christmas presents you got as a kid, you never knew what you were going to get. One of the challenges of our CSA […]
Recipes
At the heart of GreanLeaf Kitchen is eating healthfully. Eating healthy is good and all, but if that food isn’t enjoyable and delicious, what’s the point. Hence all the recipes: it’s Lori’s way of “making lemonade out of lemons”, creating nutrient dense and delicious foods, making healthy delicious!
HOMEMADE BONE BROTH
This is a staple in our house. We use it every morning as the base for our Vegetable Breakfast Soup and for any recipe that needs broth or stock. For bone broth, there are many recipes out there, with many different techniques; you can bake the bones first, you can […]
SUMMER SQUASH SOUP
Summer is all about having way too much zucchini. It’s funny — I was never a huge fan when I was a kid, but now that I have discovered how versatile and delicious these little buggers can be, I really like them. This is one of the first recipes I […]
BANANA ALMOND FLOUR WAFFLES
By the time the weekend rolls around, my kids and I are looking to change things up from our morning Breakfast Soup. When asked very nicely (it’s hard to say no to a super cute 7-year-old) for waffles, I decided it was time to experiment, the results were delicious, and […]
HERB AND OLIVE FRITTATA
While Seasonal Breakfast Soup is our much loved weekday breakfast, weekends call for something a bit special. Frittata is a family favorite. It’s wonderfully flexible as far as what ingredients are featured, it packs in a plethora of veg, and can be little or big depending on how hungry breakfasters are. As […]
YESTERDAY’S SNACK: YUCAN CRACKERS WITH APPLE AND CINNAMON
Snacking is one of those areas where it can be a challenge to remain healthy. I tend to try and treat this challenge the same way that I treat most of my cooking. Make it fun and make it special. This time instead of just breaking out Yucan Crackers I also […]
BEET AND HERB SPICED LAMB BURGERS
It’s summer time, and that calls out for something delicious cooked out on the grill. Grilling a moist and tasty burger is an art. Never being one for simplicity, I am always trying for a new spin on the classics. And that classic burger isn’t known for packing in the […]
FRESH BASIL AND ALMOND PESTO
Sauces and dressings hold the power to elevate a ho-hum salad, soup or lack-luster chicken breast into a culinary delight. Pesto is one of my favorite delicious and versatile kitchen concoctions. Pesto is a packed with leafy greens, whether it’s herbs (basil, marjoram, Italian parsley, thyme, this is where you can get super […]
ZUCCHINI NESTED EGGS
On the rare mornings that call for something a little more decadent than vegetable soup I’ll make Zucchini Nested Eggs. This dish is delicious, satisfying, and once it’s plated up and served, it is beautiful. The best part is that it is relatively easy to prepare. I came up with this dish […]
SEASONAL VEGETABLE BREAKFAST SOUP
My favorite breakfast, my nearly everyday go-to is vegetable soup. It seems that every food book, diet or research paper I have found on food and disease, calls for more vegetables (especially the leafy green ones.) My husband and I have experimented with this soup for five years, adding and subtracting […]