Mixed Greens Blog

The Real Blue Angels . . .

Blueberries, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, or give us the vigor to do so. Superfood? Though blueberry’s uber-healthy status is common knowledge, superfood designations in general are presently under scrutiny. Whatever their official status at the moment, it’s one of the sweet things in life that something so delicious is so [...]

Mix ‘n Match Summer Salads

This hot weather is enough to drive even a southern girl like me out of the kitchen around dinner time. My solution is to fix salads — lots and lots of salads. Buy your basics from the farmers market or better yet, grow your own. Add a couple of exotic accessories and you [...]

What the Deviled Egg?

Deviled eggs, deviled ham, deviled crab — what the heck does “deviled” mean? I did a little research and found that it refers to foods cooked with spices or spicy condiments like mustard. I don’t normally think of mustard as spicy enough to be considered as synonymous with the devil but back in 18th century [...]

Souped Up on Tomatoes

Put me elbow-to-elbow at the farmers market over a box of Billy’s tomato seconds and I can get pretty competitive. My greediness reared its ugly head last week and I ended up with about four large tomatoes more than I needed. Serves me right, because there were plenty to go around. Even knowing this, the [...]

Whip Up Blueberry Hotcakes (& Nix the Mix)

Indigenous to North America, blueberries are ripe and their compatibility with hotcakes is much appreciated. It’s time to flip a blueberry hotcake or two. Or twenty.
Pancakes, hotcakes, flapjacks, a short stack . . whichever terminology you prefer, from scratch with fresh local blueberries they require little more effort than a boxed mix and are [...]

Handmade Dressings for Salad

I swear I’m going on the road to promote homemade/handmade salad dressing. Not a lot of hoopla, no sponsors that I can imagine, just me on my bandwagon. And this would be my plug: forgo the processed stuff and make salad dressing because it’s tasty and because it’s a small action toward sustainable living.
Annie, and [...]

A Strawberry Jamboree

I was recently reminded of small batch jam making, which simply means that you make a few jars at a time and repeat the process whenever you have an hour and a few cups of fruit to spare.

Preserving any food is a satisfying experience, and in this case you have luminous jars of ruby-colored [...]

Don’t Count Your Chickens…

It was becoming more and more obvious that one of the chicks Krista & Chris got to raise as laying hens is actually a rooster. He sealed his fate when they heard a cock-a-doodle-do or two early one morning last week. He’s since moved out-of-town to live on a farm where he can make all [...]

Gotta Lova Pavlova

Sorry about the title. Once I discovered how these three words fit together I couldn’t resist even though they walk the fine line between amusing and just goofy. But once you’ve tasted Pavlova, loving it makes sense.
Fruity, frothy and fancy, I’d never heard of Pavlova until I hit the shores of Australia a few [...]

Drink It: Basil & Berries

Giveaway results at the end of this post!

You can’t fool a basil plant. it’ll absolutely wait until it’s warm enough to come out and play. Once summer really and truly arrives, basil can be your best friend at a party or picnic — ready to mix it up and bring out even the shyest of [...]