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    Chef’s Garden 2009 Food and Wine Celebration Giveaway for Veggie U and an Unbeetable Beet Salad!

    It’s time to host my first contest/giveaway, and what an amazing prize I have for one lucky winner! If you recall, I received and have been enjoying a gargantuan cornucopia of the loveliest of produce from Farmer Lee Jones of Chef’s Garden. Each Summer Chef’s Garden stages a sensational event to further benefit their outstanding [...]

    Kale Caesar with Bottarga for Veggie U

    If Caesar Cardini, creator of the caesar salad had lived in Tuscany instead of Tijuana, this might be the way a caesar would look. But my inspiration for an Italian interpretation of this classic came from that fine city of Nashville. While seated at the chef’s bar at City House restaurant with my Nashville musical [...]

    Blogging for Vegetables…and Veggie U.

    Green and purple snow peas enjoying a cool water rinse. Earlier this week, Farmer Lee Jones of Chef’s Garden, sent me a box the size of a MINI Cooper packed with their glorious produce. I have never met Farmer Jones, nor have I ever made it out to Huron, Ohio to visit the gardens that [...]

    Making Gnudi with Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams

    It is a rare set of circumstances that can evoke the feeling of jealousy from my bones. The exception extends to those of you who still have dear mothers alive and well, but that just might be a case of deep longing and nothing more. Truly, jealousy is an emotion that’s never served me well [...]