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turkey squash chili

January 28, 2016 by anne

turkey squash chili

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After 16 snow-free years, I moved back to the midwest and the potential for snow days about 18 months ago. I brought my husband, who grew up in Los Angeles, he had never seen a snow day in his life. We are a little old for some snow day traditions like sledding, but when possible we still build a snowman. Where our snow day traditions are really coming together are the comfort food that is on the table.

This January we decided to embark on another round of the Whole 30, so Macaroni and Cheese, my favorite comfort food, wasn’t an option. I got creative with turkey squash chili. It is also a little homage to Cincinnati style chili, served over spaghetti squash with a little bit of cinnamon in the seasonings. [Read more…]

Filed Under: recipes Tagged With: snow day, squash, turkey chili, wayfair, whole 30

look who came to dinner

January 20, 2016 by anne

Great new cookbooks are like having trusted friends over for dinner. They are an imaginary friend around the table, look who came to dinner at my house. My new dinner companions are an eclectic group of chefs, eaters, and storytellers. For Christmas, I got quite the collection of cookbooks. Hugh Acheson, Rick Bayless, Ruth Reichl and Audrey Hepburn’s son are my new companions for planning dinner.

Since we are on our Whole 30 adventure to start of the year I haven’t been able to cook from them much yet, but that actually hasn’t been all bad. It is extremely tempting, but it is encouraging me to read them like books. Not all cookbooks are set up to be read like a novel, but my favorites are and a few of these have even made it to my nightstand as evening reading. A turn of events that has my husband thinking I am a little obsessed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: featured Tagged With: cookbooks, cooking, hugh acheson, mexican, rick bayless, ruth rechiel

As a home cook and gardener, a former grocery store manager, and an advocate for improving our food system I have thousands of hours of research and real-world experience on how to get good food on our plates. My new challenge and my main focus is how to encourage my daughter to love food & eating as much as we do.

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