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All organic, summer fresh farm to table vegetarian and gluten free dinner is easy to prepare. Being stocked is one of the keys to effortless dinner preparation. Simple cooking techniques like [...]

The art of Self Care. Summer fresh organic Tomatoes, Kale, Herbs and Eggs with Warm Fresh Corn Tortillas with melted Pesto. YUM! A very satisfying start to my day.  What started out looking [...]

Mediterranean Summer Feast features from my organic garden and community farm fresh organic eggplant, summer squash, kale, garlic, pesto, onions, with French lentils, goat cheese, and edible [...]

This is a delicious elegant dish. At its heart are sautéed broccoli and onions with Mediterranean herbs. Baked slowly with eggs and feta for a perfect main course. Delightful served hot for [...]

Team Building Hands on Cooking Classes/Come for Lunch or Dinner Looking for a fun, healthy, delicious way to bond with your office team, and get to know your co-workers? My private hands on [...]

Always happy to hang out in an organic farm and garden. Here I am before teaching a hands on farm to table, vegetarian, dinner class at the Organic Spa Rancho La Puerta in Mexico. Grateful to [...]

For my Spice it Up, Creative Cooking with Herbs and Spices hands on Vegetarian Cooking class, March 17, 2019, we created a twist on a classic minestrone. Using a little strip of tasty and mineral [...]

Thick slices of organic garlic sauteed in virgin olive oil add plenty of flavor to organic tempeh with Kale. Here is a delicious gluten-free, vegan main course served on top of quinoa [...]

Sitting next to beautiful kale plants at her CSA, organic farm in Amherst MA on a sunny day in Autumn, Leslie Cerier, The Organic Gourmet offers cooking tips and delicious vegetarian, gluten [...]

Leslie Cerier, The Organic Gourmet picking up her autumn weekly organic share of veggies at her CSA. Here’s what’s in my basket this week: lots of salad greens: arugula, red Russian [...]

Teaching “Spice it Up! Creative Cooking with Herbs and Spices ” as an organic garden to table workshop in my country kitchen. I am grateful for all that came out to enjoy this hands [...]

This week, I made my first Kale Pesto. I read about them and then once I had a fresh bunch of kale and lots of fresh harvested garlic scapes, I blended them with hemp: hemp seeds and hemp oil, [...]

This week, I snapped off 80 curly garlic scapes., the mildly flavored flowering tops of the bulbs of garlic growing in my organic garden. This encourages the garlic bulbs to grow bigger. As I [...]

For over 30 years, I have been teaching hands on farm to table vegetarian group and private cooking classes. Michelle and Anthony came this winter for one of them: The Vegetarian Express, Quick [...]

Whether you are cooking for your family, friends, yourself or just because; the tastiest ingredient to add to the dish is your presence. The practice of cooking with presence is about using [...]