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  Fresh picked from the garden. Summer’s last tomatoes, salad greens and edible flowers seem extra special as we move into fall. Heartier seasonal meals await us. Grateful for the [...]

Red bell peppers and red cabbage add color to this garden fresh salad, recalling memories of delicious lunches at my Grandma Charlotte’s, who also was quite colorful with a great sense of [...]

Teff’s moist poppy seed like texture and naturally sweet flavor stands in for croutons in this delicious summer salad. The quick and easy salad with mint, parsley, tomatoes and cucumber cools you [...]

Fresh picked, from my organic garden, arugula, chives, red Russian kale and lettuce garnished with raw sunflower seeds makes a great first course salad. You can make a composed salad with many [...]

You can make your own organic Marinated Dried Tomatoes with Fresh Herbs: marjoram, basil, thyme and garlic. YUM! Eat them from the jar or put them on salad, pasta, pizza; thicken tomato sauces [...]

Join Leslie Cerier, The Organic Gourmet chef/teacher and cookbook author on May 3 from 11AM-12:00PM EST on Zoom. Leslie will demonstrate how to make a delicious, quick and easy  Asian Slaw [...]

By ANDY CASTILLO Staff Writer Published: 4/29/2020 7:00:19 AM   With quarantine orders keeping everyone indoors, everything from putting gas in the tank to shopping for groceries has become [...]

  Hope you are staying healthy and optimistic. I had so much fun teaching last week’s class on Zoom. Full to capacity. 🙂 Don’t miss my next class on Zoom this Sunday, May 3rd; 11AM-12:30PM [...]

Please join me this Sunday, May 3rd from 11AM-12:30PM EST for a Cooking Demo with Foods that Enhance Your Immune System on Zoom.   Thanks to all that joined me on April 26th for my Zoom [...]

My culinary journey begins in the garden. yours may start in a farmers market, grocery store or coop. Here are some other cooking and eating tips to keep you healthy and maintain an active [...]

Cilantro Pesto is great on pasta and super inside vegetarian sushi. Today, I ventured beyond just adding salad greens, hemp seeds and black sesame seeds to my exotic organic Jade Pearl Rice nori [...]

                          Summer feast!  With fresh salad greens and edible flowers, looks like a delicious party in every [...]

Spring rolls make a beautiful appetizer with colorful seasonal vegetables and garden fresh herbs. As the seasons change you can substitute ingredients and create colorful mosaic patterns with [...]

I love being a Personal Chef and cooking up a feast for my clients to celebrate special occasions. We created the menu together based on organic farm to table seasonal ingredients. Everything was [...]

Warm day, sunny day! Yippeeee! Grateful for all the organic farmers growing great greens this time of year. And of course there is plenty of wild dandelion greens and chives right out the door to [...]