chili – no meat necessary.

Hello.  My name is Pixy.  I am addicted to my own chili recipe.  (Hi, Pixy.) I guess I should clarify before you think I’m too terribly arrogant – this recipe started with Rachael Ray’s Black Bean Chili Stoup recipe (soup and stew put together) but I’ve tweaked and renamed it and hugged it and squeezed it and called it my very own. How many years … Continue reading chili – no meat necessary.

bavarian mushroom stew.

it may seem like a weird thing to love, but i love sauerkraut.  i also love pickles and all pickled vegetables.  i love the salty brine, the hit of sour, and the crunch. and pickled vegetables love me back!  research shows that if you can get in a cup of fermented vegetables every day, your gut will thank you. well here’s a soup that’s packed … Continue reading bavarian mushroom stew.

vegetable soup provençal.

  HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  two-thousand what? 17?  NOOOOO.  you must be joking.  wasn’t it just 1999 like a year ago?  and we were all so young and stupid and afraid of silly things, like Y2K? well here we go ~ another year, another chance to right the wrongs of 2016. i don’t know about you, but my body is screaming at me.  it’s telling me to slow … Continue reading vegetable soup provençal.