Oat-crusted chicken recipe

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresFirst off, I really appreciate all of the comments everyone left on my post about my grandpa.  And while I was spending time with my family last weekend, I learned the secrets of my grandmother's fried chicken.  She hasn't made it in years, but the whole family remembers how delicious it was.  Apparently it requires cutting up your own chicken so that the pieces are the same size, removing the skin, seasoning the chicken (not the flour), soaking the chicken in buttermilk for 24 hours before dipping it...

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Carrot macaroni and cheese recipe

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresI've been in denial for the last few weeks, but I'm finally starting to accept the fact that I'm moving across the country in less than a week.  Don't get me wrong, I'm beyond excited, but I always turn into a mess before I move.  When I left for college, I cried for the entire 5 hour drive, and as I was moving out after college, I broke down in the food court on campus and cried like a baby (luckily this was the food court right next to the hospital, so crying was a common occurrence).  Of course I'll...

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Cabbage stuffed with quinoa pilaf recipe

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresI loved this simple quinoa pilaf, especially because my last pilaf was virtually inedible.  The flavors were very simple, but the combination of quinoa, tomatoes, raisins, and pine nuts was perfect.  I got the pilaf recipe from Gluten-Free Goddess, but decided to stuff cabbage instead of mushrooms.  The pilaf would be great alone, as well (I had some left after stuffing the cabbage, and enthusiastically gobbled it up while the cabbage rolls were baking).  I'm submitting this dish to Weekend Herb...

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Brunswick stew recipe

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresI'm ecstatic right now.  I have a lot of recipes in the queue, but I have to tell you about this one immediately.  One of my absolute favorite meals in the world (perhaps THE favorite) is my grandmother's vegetable soup with cornbread.  The soup has a creamy tomato base with a bit of a kick (thanks to Tabasco), and is filled with butter beans, okra, corn, and potatoes.  My cousins and I fight over the soup, and I'm really hoping that Grandmother remembers that I organized and catalogued her chest...

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Two gluten-free granola bar recipes

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresIn addition to the fig, pecan, and flax crackers I made for my Mother's Day care package, I also sent two kinds of granola bars.  I found two recipes that sounded fantastic and couldn't decide between them, so I went overboard as usual.  Luckily granola bars fare well in the freezer, so none of them went to waste.  Both have relatively little refined sugar and are gluten-free, and I thought both were delicious.  Unfortunately the cocoa and orange variety (on the bottom in the picture, if you can...

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Weekend Herb Blogging #246 recap

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresI'm excited to be hosting Weekend Herb Blogging this week, and once again I'm amazed by the variety of fruits and vegetables that were featured this week, and the creative ways that everyone used them.  Without further ado, here are the entries that I received, and please let me know if I missed anyone or need to make any corrections.Janet from The Taste Space gives us a recipe for Lebanese Eggplant with Pomegranate Molasses (Batinian Bil Rumman), a very versatile dish using pomegranate molasses and seeds:Rachel...

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Funk.

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresI've lost my cooking mojo, and it's getting to be a serious problem.  As classes started last month, I knew that I would be a lot busier and would have to plan quick meals most nights.  Not a big deal, I've made plenty of good food that doesn't take long to prepare.  But soon after, I lost the desire to cook anything new.  I've decided that it's because everything else in my life is new (job, city, friends, life) and I needed something to stay consistent.  So I ate things like roasted chicken...

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Georgia food adventures

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresYou're probably tired of hearing me talk about all of the wonderful food I've been enjoying since the move.  Too bad, because I have to share more.  One of my favorite luxuries of living near Atlanta is being able to make occasional trips to the Dekalb Farmers Market.  I remember stumbling into this place while I was in college and being completely blown away.  The name is misleading because it's not your typical farmers' market, it's more of a store... but unlike any store I've ever seen. It does...

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Roasted butternut squash recipe

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresHow have I never shared this recipe?  It's one of my all-time favorites that I make more than any other recipe.  In fact, I think I tried this method the very first time that I cooked butternut squash (sadly that was in the last couple of years).  It's so easy that I hesitate to even call it a recipe, but it's always fantastic.  I made it for Thanksgiving two years ago and took it to my program's holiday party a few weeks later, and I got many requests for the recipe.  In fact, it was even...

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Hello again!

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresWow, it's been a while.  Between finishing up things in the lab, packing, and trying to see everyone before I move next week, I've been quite busy.  Plus, last weekend I went to Florida to throw Mom a surprise birthday party.  I think I cooked more for the party than I have at home in the past month (I've been living off of the cooked grains and beans from my freezer).  I made two cakes: a flourless chocolate cake that was rich and delicious, and an Italian cream cake (apparently it was so good...

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Let's talk about sorghum

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresI'm guessing that a lot of people have had sorghum syrup at some point in their lives.  And those of us who have adopted a gluten-free diet have almost surely had sorghum flour and sorghum-based beer.  In fact, I use sorghum flour more than any other type because it seems to work as a multi-purpose flour and has a mild taste that is great in all kinds of baked goods.  However, I hadn't seen sorghum grains until I received a bag of sorghum from Shiloh Farms as part of the first place prize package in...

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Sweet potato casserole recipe

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresWhen I was invited to an Easter lunch and needed to come up with a dish to bring, I immediately thought of sweet potatoes.  I don't typically associate sweet potatoes with Easter, but I guess I was in the mood for them.  I didn't want to make the typical southern sweet potato casserole that has more sugar than I care to think about, so I was excited to find a recipe for a low sugar sweet potato casserole at 101 Cookbooks.  This dish was just sweet enough that this could have been a dessert (I ate some...

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Gluten-free sweet potato cobbler recipe

type="html"> I distinctly remember the first time I ate sweet potato cobbler.  I was about 10 and had just enjoyed breakfast on my grandparents' porch.  My grandpa Al always quizzed me about whether I had tried different foods (usually it was some uncommon fruit or vegetable, a classic southern food, or something weird he concocted).  I was an adventurous eater compared to most kids, so I tried quince jelly (it was delicious), tomatoes with sugar (not my thing), and even cornbread doused in buttermilk (you should have seen the look on my face - I haven't had any buttermilk since).  And all throughout breakfast that day he told us about sweet potato cobbler.  I love sweet potatoes and it's hard to beat cobbler,...

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Blueberry and fig smoothie recipe

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresI've been in Georgia for about 2 weeks now, and I finally feel settled. The movers delivered my stuff yesterday (I found out the hard way that sleeping on an air mattress for that long is NOT pleasant), and before that I barely did any cooking. I had a pot, pan, cutting board, and knife with me, but I couldn't get inspired to cook something that I would have to eat off of a paper plate with plastic utensils. I did make spaghetti and a couple of decent stir-fries, but nothing was worth writing about. But now that my...

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Maque choux with sausage recipe

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresI moved to Georgia at the perfect time.  Ok, so it's not the best time to be moving stuff (my shirt was visibly soaked with sweat all day Monday after hauling boxes of books into my new office), but as soon as I got here I was inundated with delicious produce.  When I left Michigan I was still eating asparagus, greens, and strawberries, but as soon as I got to Georgia I dove head first into peach season.  And I can't forget about the cantaloupe, tomatoes, okra, corn, figs, blueberries, watermelon, peas,...

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Warm butter bean, red onion, and spinach salad with mustard recipe

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresEven after making Brunswick stew this week (which is getting better and better!), I still have butter beans in my freezer (for some reason I thought it was a great idea to cook 3 pounds of them a few months ago).  Before I made the stew, I was inspired by Gel's kitchen to make this salad.  I made the recipe and it was pretty good, but then I got the idea to add whole grain mustard.  Sometimes I have random last-minute ideas that fail miserably, but this one took the salad from ok to wonderful. ...

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Fig, pecan, and flax crackers recipe

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresSince I've started packing up my apartment, I've become even more sensitive to the fact that nobody wants more junk to sit around.  So for Mother's Day, I wanted to give Mom something useful.  Between work and taking care of my grandmother, she has been excessively busy lately, so I decided to make her a care package of sorts, with healthy snacks that would keep her going at work and on her weekend trips.  It was also a present for me because it gave me an excuse to try new recipes (thanks, Mom!). ...

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Mamom's fumi salad recipe

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresThanks to everyone for all of the kind messages encouraging me to keep the blog going.  That is my intent, though I'm sure my posting frequency will not be what it once was.  The one person that most consistently expressed her desire for new blog posts was my grandmother, Mamom.  Tomorrow would be her 86th birthday, and this is for her.  Happy birthday, Mamom.I started this blog for two reasons; I wanted an easy way to keep track of recipes that I enjoyed, but more importantly I wanted a way to...

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Rhubarb and strawberry compote recipe

Healthy with Fruits and Vegetables Recipes.Sharing all things related to health, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Traditional and Modern recipes, how to manufacture and maintain health naturally.Health is more valuable than treasuresMy favorite farmers' market opened last weekend, and I'm so happy to have plans every Saturday morning again.  I'm trying to enjoy the spring offerings and not think about the fact that I'll move before the market really gets going.  Last week I picked up rhubarb on a whim.  The challenge with rhubarb is that most recipes call for tons of sugar to cancel out its sour nature.  However, I really enjoy rhubarb's sourness, and I also try to avoid much added sugar.  So, I decided to cook the rhubarb...

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