Dandelion and Lentil Soup with Tomato

Believe it or not, Florida does get cold, and when it does we make soup!  Here is a fave; vegan dandelion and lentil soup with tomatoes.  Warm, delicious, nutritious, and VERY easy to make! Dandelion greens are slightly bitter so we add sweet diced tomatoes for some balance. Preparation Time:  30 minutes Cooking Time:  30 minutes Serves:  6 as main dish Ingredients: 3 cups of … Continue reading Dandelion and Lentil Soup with Tomato

Arugula and Goat Cheese Pizza with Red Onion and Mushrooms

We love arugula’s peppery flavor, and rather than having it just in salads we try all kinds of ways to enjoy it. Sometimes it’s hard to think of other ways to enjoy a particular ingredient, but one way is to consider what goes well with it and then try using those same ingredients in a totally different type of dish. For example, arugula is often paired … Continue reading Arugula and Goat Cheese Pizza with Red Onion and Mushrooms

Vegetarian Minestrone with Mizuna

Minestrone is like chicken soup, in that if you ask 10 cooks how to make it, you will get 10 different recipes. But it does have a few common ingredients:  beans, onions, celery, carrots, rice or pasta, vegetable stock, and fresh or canned tomatoes.  It can be, but is not usually, made with meat and/or meat-based stock like chicken stock. Our version of minestrone is vegetarian and … Continue reading Vegetarian Minestrone with Mizuna

Korean-style Scallion and Veggie Pancakes

We farm in Florida, but we love food from all over the world.  Korean-style Scallion and Veggie Pancakes are delicious, healthy, and easy to make. This recipe uses scallions, carrots, and red bell pepper, but you can use any vegetable of your choice, as long as they are somewhat flat.  For example, using large or even small broccoli or cauliflower florets will result in very uneven … Continue reading Korean-style Scallion and Veggie Pancakes

Salad Turnips

Salad turnips are excellent either raw or cooked. Raw salad turnips have a refreshing, tangy flavor similar to a mild radish, and cooked salad turnips are pleasantly sweet. Salad turnips are less starchy and have a higher moisture content than traditional purple top turnips, but can be used well in most traditional turnip recipes. They are delicious baked, mashed or roasted. The tops are “turnip greens”, packed with nutrients and flavor. Try them … Continue reading Salad Turnips

Lettuce Have Salad for Breakfast

Breakfast for Dinner, we already love. Makes us feel like mealtime rebels, mixing up a batch of pancakes at 6 PM. But Salad for Breakfast? Oh, YES. Salad for Breakfast is not the normal high carb breakfast system of cereal or bagels. It’s only 6 AM and we can already score points for eating well for the day. Puts us ahead nutritionally from the start. Lettuce has a mild flavor that is light … Continue reading Lettuce Have Salad for Breakfast

Mixed Baby Greens Salad with Sherry Vinaigrette

The best salads are ones that have the freshest ingredients, layers of flavor, a variety of textures, and since we eat with our eyes first, lots of vibrant colors.  This salad made with a variety of organic produce from our farm checks every box. Peppery, sweet, crisp, and herbaceous baby arugula, romaine, red lettuce, red kale and mizuna.  Crisp cucumber slices, sweet and colorful Sungold cherry tomatoes … Continue reading Mixed Baby Greens Salad with Sherry Vinaigrette