The other night for dinner I made chicken seasoned with Turmeric and a side of brown rice. Yum. It was really good and I had it with a salad.   Of course, there were leftovers...

The next day I went to Whole Foods for some stuff and found cute-little-broccoli-type-thingy's in the produce department. They were labeled as Broccolette. According to Earthboud Farm Organic, who grows these Broccolettes, they are a hybrid between broccoli and gai lan,which apparently is Chinese kale. They did not look too complicated and they kind of called out to me so I picked them up and off we went.

Just now, I took the Broccolettes and cut them up small and sauteed them in olive oil and garlic. Once they were tender I added the leftover rice and the chicken which I had cut up and heated it all through. The garlic gave the leftover turmeric chicken a whole different flavor and the Broccolettes were amazing.

So if you find something you are not familiar with in the store, go ahead - pick it up and take it home. You may just thank yourself for it!

My niece Ashleigh wanted homemade marshmallows for the annual trip to Maine. Ask and ye shall receive, Ashleigh!

Camille and I made marshmallows which is very fun and very messy and clean up is a blast!

Boil granulated sugar, water and corn syrup to 240*. In your mixer's bowl dissolve unflavored gelatin with water. Drizzle the sugar mixture into the mixer bowl of gelatin while using the whisk attachment. Whip until it looks like marshmallow fluff and add vanilla towards the end. Pour into a prepared pan (coated with oil and powdered sugar and corn starch). Let it sit until it sets and enjoy! Feel free to add natural food coloring or flavored extracts to whatever makes you smile!

We had quite a few blackberries from our bush this year with more to come. But, so far I took what we froze and made jelly and BBQ sauce.

First the jelly, it actually turned out to be a Black and Blue Berry because I added some local blueberries to it. We took our thawed out berries and strained out the seeds and made pulp. Once we had about 6 cups of pulp we added sugar, lemon juice and zest and also cinnamon and boiled it. Added the pectin and boiled a little more. Once it started to get to the point of setting we canned them and processed them in their water bath for 10 minutes. We ended up with approximately 3 pints that we had poured in various sized jars. YUMMY!

The next night we grabbed more blackberries and made a BBQ sauce that really rocks!
We took the blackberries and added ketchup, brown sugar, hot sauce, honey, minced ginger, black pepper and white vinegar and mashed it up in the blender. Then we worked that through the strainer as well and boiled it down so it reduced to a consistency that I liked and jarred it up. DOUBLE YUMMY!

Be creative with the  recipes that you find and don't be afraid to adjust them! I do that all the time, with (mostly) great results!!  I did it with these and they came out perfect! If not, make notes and try again!