A Beet Salad Recipe You’ll Actually Like
Beets get a bad rap. Rewrite your story with beets with this simple, colorful, nutritious and tasty recipe!
Locro Stew
Locro is a stew made throughout the Andes region of South America that shares just a few basic ingredients that are indigenous to the region: potatoes, legumes, and corn. It is an ancient recipe, described by a Spanish conquistador in 1590, and has many variations including ingredients like meat or shrimp, or topped with a fried egg.
Cabbage Salad with Apples & Cranberry Vinaigrette
This light and tangy Napa cabbage salad is the perfect way to celebrate winter flavors. Crisp apples, tender Napa cabbage, and crunchy nuts are brought together with a sweet-tart cranberry vinaigrette for a dish that’s as festive as it is delicious. Whether you're hosting a holiday meal or just looking for a healthy side, this salad is sure to impress.
Maple Custard Pie with Cornmeal Crust
Jake McDaniel of Locals Underground has a talent for pairing unexpected ingredients to craft extraordinary flavors, and this pie is no exception. This recipe, a love letter to Bruce’s Syrups & Candies’ locally-made maple syrup, combines a buttery cornmeal crust, a rich maple custard filling, and candied black walnut garnish that will make a statement on your table at Thanksgiving or any time of year.
Cinderella Creamy Pumpkin Pie
Marie Miller selected a cinderella pumpkin from the Market for this pie. Known for it’s thick, sweet, custard-like flesh, this pumpkin shines in her recipe. Warming spices like ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and freshly ground black pepper create a creamy and flavorful bite. This pie is 2 out of 6 in our Harvest Fest Pie Series. Stay tuned for 4 more delicious pie recipes!
Blueberry Crumble Pie
McKenna Schonbrun, JMU student, did not expect to win the Harvest Fest pie contest when she baked her very first pie. Ever. Among beautifully spiced pumpkin pies, a maple custard, and banana cream, Schonbrun’s blueberry crumble pie shined with a fruity brightness and crisp sourdough crust. Just like Schonbrun surprised us, consider surprising your family with a blueberry pie this Thanksgiving.
Pumpkin Chili
This recipe is a bit involved, but worth it for the joy of serving chili in a pumpkin! You’re more than welcome to skip the pumpkin serving bowl part and simply chop and add squash and pumpkin to your chili cooked the normal way, in a pot on the stove. But why not embrace the season and spend a little extra time on this special dish that is sure to delight your guests and family?
Diwali Dinner
Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights, that celebrates the “victory of light over darkness” and good over evil. In India, Diwali has become a national celebration that has been incorporated into other religions. For five days, celebrants light lanterns, set off firecrackers, decorate their homes, make offerings to Lakshmi (the goddess of prosperity), exchange gifts, and throw parties.
Apple Butter Oatmeal
This is my go-to breakfast, customized with whatever fruits are in season or what I’ve stashed in the freezer. It’s packed with nutrition: probiotics from yogurt, omega-3s from flax, and protein from nuts. This cozy, wholesome bowl is a delicious way to fuel your day and celebrate the season.
Red Lentil Lasagna
This Red Lentil Lasagna is a perfect dish to share with a friend who needs some extra comfort—a nourishing, hearty meal ideal for someone who's sick, just had a baby, or could use a thoughtful gesture.
Beans & Greens Gratin
This Beans & Greens Gratin is a delicious, way to enjoy fresh beans available in early autumn. This nutrient-packed dish is full of hearty greens, creamy lima beans, and a crunchy bread crumb topping, can be a new family favorite that can be customized with your favorite greens and cheese. It's great as a side dish or a vegetarian main!
A Rosh Hashanah Feast
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, celebrated by Jewish people all over the world, but there are very different traditions. The Jewish population of the world split in two in the 1500s, as Christian Europe stopped most of their trade and communication with the Islamic world.
Spicy Pot Roast
Pot roast is pure comfort food. There is nothing like coming home to, or even waking up to, the smell of a roast in the oven on a cozy day. My favorite part is sipping the delicious broth, which nourishes my soul deeply. With the chill in the air and pepper season coming to a head, this recipe, like many, is inspired by my mother’s kitchen. I took my mother’s pot roast and added Mexican flare instead. The result is a spicy twist on a classic, which I adore.
Watermelon ‘Za from Chef Beau Floyd
Looking for a fun and easy snack that kids will love to make and eat? Try Watermelon Za—a refreshing, endlessly customizable treat that’s perfect for summer. With only a few weeks of watermelon season left, now's the time to get creative in the kitchen with your little ones!
Balkan Eggplant Casserole
In the Balkans, they bake savory ingredients in a mix of eggs with Greek yogurt or sour cream, creating a rich, tender, creamy custard. In the traditional recipes for this dish, the eggplant is salted to remove excess liquid and then fried, and the tomatoes are stewed separately, but I find that oven-roasting them both together accomplishes a similar result much more quickly and easily. It’s supposed to have a peppery bite, but you can cut the pepper level if you don’t like that.
Sweet & Hot Italian Sausage with Tomatoes
Fresh Caprese with Burrata and Focaccia
There's nothing quite like the fresh flavors of summer, and this simple Caprese appetizer is the perfect way to showcase the season's best ingredients. With juicy, ripe tomatoes, creamy burrata cheese, fragrant basil, and a tangy balsamic drizzle, this dish is sure to be a hit.
Tomato Pie
Tomato pie is a Southern classic that's perfect for showcasing the bounty of tomato season. Whether you serve it hot or cold, for breakfast with a fried egg on top, lunch, or dinner, this dish is always a crowd-pleaser.
Yamagata Dashi Somen & Other Obon Recipes
In Japan, mid-August is time to celebrate Obon, a multi-day Buddhist festival that honors the spirits of the ancestors, much like the Mexican Day of the Dead. Huge numbers of city people travel to their hometowns to visit their family graves and altars, where they update the departed on what’s happening in their lives and present offerings of food for their spirits.
Tomato Sandwich with Basil Aioli
For a few summers in college, I worked at a peach orchard and vegetable farm on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It was there I had my first heirloom tomato and subsequently, my first heirloom tomato sandwich.