White Bean and Sausage Soup

Photo by Judith Hausman Soup or salad? When it’s cold out, choose soup. I had been hoarding sweet pork sausage from my CSA pig for several months, when we had a second snow day in one week. This seemed like a great occasion to defrost three packages of sausage and create my white bean and […]

Spinach-Meat Patties

  Photo by Judith Hausman These easy meat patties resemble falafel. The beginning of last week was Passover (while the end was Easter), so I turned to the Jewish cookbooks on my shelf. My family usually prefers the tried-and-true traditional dishes, but I still like to poke around for some new-to-me recipes. One of my […]

Recipe: Last-Minute Chicken and Sausage Contadina

iStockphoto/Thinkstock The Hudson Valley sausage would defrost quickly and pair wonderfully with roasted chicken. I love when I can feed my now-grown-up kids. This weekend though, the list of house guests doubled the morning they were to arrive. Gulp. And the backlog of garden goodies in the fridge has thinned considerably already in my area. […]