Earthly Edibles

Some of us celebrate the last bits of summer with a trip to the beach over Labor Day weekend, my husband and I celebrate here in the mountains with the last of the summer tomatoes. It has been our tradition to visit the farmer’s market if we don’t have enough of our own tomatoes and [...]

Get the tomatoes while they are still plentiful. This tomato salad includes purple Cherokee, yellow pear, stripey,and rose from our garden with a brandywine, red and green zebra ones from the Asheville City tail gate market. I then added purple and green basil leaves and some local mozzarella cheese! I tossed the salad with a [...]

When I think of Labor Day weekend, two of the things that I think about are the fact that the peaches will become few and far between locally and the apples will become plentiful! Two weeks ago my husband and I headed to the farmer’s market and bought a big basket of peaches and froze [...]

It is wild blueberry season here in Western North Carolina. Be sure to save some for the bears and birds. Blue berries and other berries are rich in vitamin C, fiber and phytochemicals that add benefits to our health. They are also make a low calorie dessert! This year, I froze a few berries and [...]

I have just turned a new leaf! If you have read my previous posts, you may have noticed my focus on local, fresh plant -based foods.  There is now  a new name and look for my blog to capture this. Stay tuned for more recipes using fresh, whole ingredients, stories of local families farmers, restaurants [...]

In Western North Carolina, there is a vast availability of wonderful and healthy local food and I am going to share some of these with you in my series titled “Healthy Mountain Harvest”. I am starting with one of my new favorites, the Sunburst Trout Farm outside of Canton, North Carolina. Recently, I had the [...]

How did you do this week on maintaining your weight? Writing down what I eat over the past week has been a challenge for me but I have still been eating smaller portions and being more aware of what I am putting in my mouth. This week for many of us, the holiday intensity is [...]

In these uncertain times many of us would like to eat dessert first and with these fruity dessert ideas you can feel less guilty for doing so because you will get some healthy nutrients along with satisfying your sweet tooth. Cookies, pies, cakes and candy can be the biggest challenge for many of us over [...]

Are you ready for Week 4 of the Healthy Holiday Eating Challenge? How did you do during your Thanksgiving Celebration? Did you feel that you were more aware of your choices? If you ate more than you had hoped, you still have many days that you can make healthful eating choices during this holiday season. [...]

As Monday passed and I had not started writing Week Three, it just made it even more clear to me in these days where the economy needs repair, time is even more precious than gold! The topic that I had planned was getting more veggies and salads throughout the holidays to help us stay on [...]