pesto~ish (aka the ish post)

Life is sometimes too busy to cook let alone to post about food on a blog that I never plan on making a living with.  Between working weekends and sleep writing has been far from my list of important things to take care of.. sadly it has taken its place long after do laundry and organize shoes.  Luckily I do still find the time to eat and occasionally make something from scratch.  This week I was gifted green tomatoes from someones garden.  I am not talented at frying things; so fried green tomatoes was out.  For those that have not had green tomatoes before they are tart and very hard when not cooked and I was not sure I felt adventurous enough to make some type of fresh salad that could potentially be too crunchy to eat.  After debating on what to do with these pretty green things I decided that roasting them and making some sort of sauce sounded like the way to go.  Thus began the story of the birth of Green Tomato Pesto Spread...

a few of my favorite things

As the temperature drops the thick long forgotten winter layers come out and so begins the season of soup.. Admittedly there are cold soups like gazpacho and watermelon. for hot summer days. But they don't really count..

so free

Gluten free for some is just the latest dietary trend, for others it is a necessity to maintain a pain/allergy free digestive experience.  My friend Julie is of the latter type with the addition of some other allergies like yeast and dairy so I have been exploring allergy free options for her (this only happens when she visits, I like my allergens otherwise).

raw food - it shouldn't taste good it's too good for me

During my yoga teacher training I was lucky to be hosted by Cyndi an amazing woman who happened to also be a vegan raw foodist.   While I did have a ten year stint in vegetarianism long ago and far away during my teens (two reasons, I read Upton Sinclair's the The Jungle and maybe a minor way to rebel from a serious hunter family).