This one pot rice dish is a staple for fall cooking in my home. Sauté onions and garlic, add in the other ingredients, cover, and let sit for 45 minutes. After that, all that’s left is to eat! The original version of this dish is based on this paella recipe but I’ve morphed it into a…
Winter Squash
Delicata Squash Spring Rolls with Spinach
As you read the title of this recipe, you might be thinking to yourself that the two main items, squash and spring rolls, don’t scream fast. Squash takes time to prepare and the wrapping of the spring rolls can be tedious. However, using delicata squash (no-peel, quick cooking) and a small batch of spring rolls…
Sesame Kabocha Squash Soup
| Disclosure: This recipe was created for Ancient Harvest. See below for more details. | In the super market or farmers’ market, it might be easy to over look unfamiliar produce. It’s easy to gravitate towards the knowns such as broccoli, sweet potatoes, and butternut squash. However, when dealing with winter squash, there is abundance of…
Butternut Squash Galette with Balsamic Onions and Ricotta
A delicious fall savory galette
Delicata Squash Pizza
Between M and I, we have very few repetitious patterns. On any given day, we fly by the seat of our pants. I think part of this is because neither of us have set times to be some place during the day, we work until we feel like we can wrap up the day, and…
Roasted Red Kuri Squash with Cannellini Bean and Spinach Salad
To follow up from the delicata squash tacos I posted on Saturday, I wanted to share another (different) squash recipe. I think it’s easy to get blinded by the shear amount of butternut squash and pumpkin recipes out there when really, there’s a wide scope of delicious squash. Red kuri squash may look like a…
Delicata Squash Tacos with Black Beans
Since Mack was born, M and I talk a lot about where we see ourselves settling down for the long haul. We’ve made it a goal to hopefully decide by the time Mack is in first grade, which gives us some time. I’ve always had my heart set on Colorado. The Rockies have always felt…
Black Bean Tostadas with Chipotle Butternut Squash
Recipe originally published on September 28th, 2012. Last updated on September 20th, 2015. I am always fascinated by my changing taste. There are so many foods I love now but as a child, I wouldn’t have touched with a ten foot pole. Looking back, I was an extremely picky eater. Then again, I was also…
Roasted Butternut Squash, Quinoa, and Arugula Salad
It’s meals like this that become comfort food for me. A slightly warm arugula salad with a mix of flavors that feels these like salad and more like a hearty meal. The feta softens and the pecans add a bit of crunch (without adding the traditional crouton). This is my perfect salad.
Ginger Butternut Squash Soup
Don’t be fooled, it is so far from soup weather in Sacramento. In the past couple of weeks, we’ve had temperatures around 100˚ for a few days and all I want right now is to have the windows open, with a nice cool breeze flowing through (which isn’t looking like it’s going to happen for…
Quinoa White Bean Stew
In my patio garden, I’ve killed a few things so far. I forgot to move the basil inside and the first frost of the season wiped it out in one night. The next to go was the sage (killed and started again, only to be killed again), and cilantro (my dog ate the entire pot-…
Butternut Squash Pizza with Blue Cheese
Pureed squash and sweet potatoes are some of the handiest ingredients to have around your kitchen in the fall and winter months. The puree is great in mac and cheese, like this butternut squash version or this sweet potato version. Purees squash can serve as a great filling for enchiladas or even use as an…
Butternut Squash Pasta Bake
In a little over a week, M and I will be traveling to Illinois and Texas for a whirlwind holiday adventure. Given the last time we saw everyone was for the wedding, I’m excited to spend time relaxing and just enjoying the time spent with good company. I’ve felt a bit out of sorts recently…
Butternut Squash and Blue Cheese Ravioli
I remember the first time I made pasta. I followed the recipe to the letter, using a fork to carefully whisk the egg and flour together. It seemed like such a foreign concept to me- that something I thought would be so tough to make because it was sold at mass in stores was…