“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.”
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I used to be very experimental in the kitchen.
I could spend an entire afternoon exploring a new idea, ingredient, technique or simply trying to recreate a recipe that I ate out somewhere.
That was when I had a lot of free time on my hands.
That was before I was graced with these two little munchkins…
Remember that Raw Kale and Walnut Pesto I posted earlier this week? Well here is just one of many ways you can put it to use… simply dolloped on top of a piece of pan seared salmon.
This recipe is packed with all of those healthy omega-3′s that we need to be incorporating into our diet!
Putting a simple spin on classic pesto is an easy way to give your pesto a seasonal feel. By subbing kale in for traditionally used basil, you end up with earthier, heartier flavors that we tend to lean towards as the cooler weather rolls in.
This my friends, is what I like to call, “Power Food Pesto”!
If you’ve never attempted to make your own veggie broth I hope to use this as an opportunity to convince you to give it a try.
Once you make (and taste) your own stock, you will wonder how you could have ever settled for it’s store bought counter part. Especially once you see how it EASY it is!
Now don’t get me wrong…
The best thing about working with fresh, seasonal produce is that you always know whatever ingredients you have on hand are going to taste great together! It’s simply the way Mother Nature intended it and it’s an easy way to learn how to pair foods together.
My favorite way of remembering this is…
If there is one promise I can give you in the kitchen it’s this; If you work with fresh, seasonal, local ingredients it takes very little effort to create extremely flavorful food. So if time is an issue for you, this may be a road to travel more often.
Take these cute little Patty Pans for instance…
