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Sunday
Nov132011

Red & Blue Herbed Potatoes

While I haven’t been here—at The Sensitive Pantry—so often lately I have been out and about with friends and family. In between we’ve been dodging (or not) hurricanes and freak October snowstorms that have left us on two occasions without power for more than 5 days each time.

Yes, life has been clipping along at a fast pace. Even so, the individual events—in snapshot form—hold good memories. Lovely images of friends walking together on the beach, meeting up at the farmers’ market with someone who gets as excited as I do about organic vegetables, and the sounds of generators humming throughout the neighborhood while we chat lazily with the folks next door.

One of the highlights of my fall weekends is coming to a close and I’m feeling blue about it. Most Sunday mornings I grab my shopping bags and head out to one of two local farmers’ markets. Most times I meet up with Stephanie from Gluten-free by Nature (and on occasion Amber from Bluebonnets and Brownies) to stroll about in the perfect weather, gushing over organic broccoli raab and San Marzano tomatoes (sigh), delighting over the fresh fish, checking out the adorable alpaca and catching up on all that’s going on in our separate worlds.

It’s pretty simple—it makes me really happy to spend a few hours this way every week. Really happy. So easy to do. So simple. So nourishing—in so many ways.

Come to find out there’s a winter market about twenty minutes away. Bazinga!

 

Up next—homemade roasted tomato ketchup from organic San Marzanos!

Red & Blue Herbed Potatoes

One of the organic farmers offers a great selection of potatoes. The red and blue varieties are boldly colored throughout. This quick recipe is as simple as it is beautiful.

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. If you have a convection oven use the Convect Roast setting.

Scrub and dry:

About 8-10 small to medium organic red and blue potatoes

Cut them into equal sized pieces. I cut mine in half long-ways and then in about 3/8 inch strips (again cutting along the long side).

Rinse the potatoes in cold water and dry thoroughly.

(I used a ziploc bag for the next two steps.)

Toss with:

1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil

Sprinkle and toss to coat with:

2 teaspoons almond flour
2 teaspoons grated pecorino romano cheese
1 1/2 teaspoons mixed dried herbs: thyme, sage, rosemary, oregano
salt and pepper

Place the potatoes in a cast iron frying pan and roast in the oven for about 20-25 minutes until fork tender.

Makes about 4 servings.

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Stephanie and Amber created some really wonderful dishes from their farmers’ market purchases—a lovely Pumpkin Sage Cake (gluten-free and vegan) from Steph and mouth-watering Kielbasa, Apple and Kale Hash from Amber (naturally gluten-free).

Have any favorites you’d like to share?

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Saturday
Nov202010

Day After Thanksgiving Salad with Cranberry Vinaigrette

If your family is anything like mine you’re going to have some pretty spectacular food adorning your Thanksgiving table. Possibly too much spectacular food. After dinner folks will be pushing their chairs back and rubbing their bellies. One or two will utter that they ate too much. Some will collapse on the couch but will be more than happy to hobble back to the table for coffee and pumpkin pie after the dishes are cleared and the goodies are set out for the finale.

Hard to believe the next day you’re likely to do it all over again…there’s really nothing better than Thanksgiving leftovers. My husband will be making a turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce sandwich. And, he’ll start thinking about and planning it way before lunch time.

Me, I’ll be eating that salad you see in the photo. In fact, I eat that salad all year long because I love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. Did I say Love it??

It’s light, refreshing, crunchy and a little bit sweet. Organic salad greens mingled with leftover turkey, apple chunks, maple-glazed walnuts then studded with dried cranberries, pepitas and a sprinkling of feta cheese. I typically dress it with salt, pepper, good olive oil and balsamic vinegar. But, if there’s cranberry sauce left over I just might make a cranberry vinaigrette to drizzle over top.

 

Day After Thanksgiving Salad with Cranberry Vinaigrette

Salad

Fresh organic greens (baby romaine or mesclun are favorites)

An apple, cut into 1/4 inch thick one-inch slices

Pecans or walnuts (How about these Maple Glazed Walnuts from Elie Krieger?)

Dried cranberries

Pepitas (pumpkin seeds)

Turkey, cut into bite sized pieces

Feta cheese, crumbled

Rinse and dry the organic greens. Sprinkle with apple pieces, maple glazed nuts, dried cranberries, pepitas, and turkey. Toss with cranberry vinaigrette (recipe below) and top with crumbled feta. Muah!

Cranberry Vinaigrette

4 tablespoons cranberry sauce

4 teaspoons balsamic vinegar (white balsamic if you have it)

6 tablespoons grapeseed or canola oil

3 tablespoons orange juice

2 teaspoons prepared mustard

a squeeze or two of lime juice

salt and pepper to taste

Place all ingredients in a small bowl or 2 cup measuring cup and whisk together until thoroughly combined. Or, if you prefer whip it all up in a blender.

If you’re making this salad for only one or two people you may want to cut the vinaigrette recipe in half.

Here are some wonderful recipes for Thanksgiving and all season long…

 

The WHOLE Gang: Friday Foodie Fix—Thanksgiving Inspired

I Am Gluten Free: Thanksgiving Curried Butternut Squash Soup (GF EF CF Vegan)

Elana’s Pantry: Cranberry Apple Stuffing (GF CF)

Lexie’s Kitchen: No Bake Pumpkin Pie Filling (GF EF CF Vegan)

Gluten-free For Good: Cherry Cobbler (GF EF)

Simply Gluten-Free: Sunbutter Truffles (GF EF CF Vegan)

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