May is National Salad Month! This Watermelon & Goat Cheese Salad from Garden Cut is one of my very favorites! Don’t overlook fresh fruit as an ingredient option when you are preparing salads. Watermelon is a great addition to salad, plus it always makes me think about warm weather, plus… who doesn’t like watermelon?!?? Seriously! [...]
Talking Turnips on Indy Style
It was my pleasure to be back on Indy Style this week. This time I brought a good friend of Indy Fruit with me, Mike Kocher of Peaper Brothers Farm. Peaper Brothers Produce has been farming turnips for over 100 years & as you may remember from a previous blog… I LOVE TURNIPS! DID YOU [...]
Nicoise Salad
Salad Niçoise is probably my very favorite salad & it has to be one of the easiest fancy things you can make. It just SOUNDS elegant, right? French: [ni 'swaz]. Don’t let that fancy-schmanzcy pronunciation & presentation fool ya… Niçoise is EASY!
Fox News Features The Produce Mom
It was my pleasure to be featured on yesterday’s Fox 59 News. Jenny Anchondo, one of the morning anchors, utilized my voice & produce industry knowledge to help drive home the messaging that fresh fruits and veggies are an accessible, affordable & healthy option for all consumers! All produce is good for you & nothing [...]
BLT Salad
May is National Salad Month! And one thing we know around here at Indy Fruit is a good salad…. we have salad bar in the office everyday for lunch & it’s one of our favorite things to make in the Garden Cut test kitchen!
Banana Peel Power
DO NOT THROW AWAY THAT BANANA PEEL! I have a plethora of uses for banana peels. Today I’m going to show you the step-by-step for my very favorite… Polishing shoes! Maybe you’re like me… I love the look of a fresh polished shoe, but I’ve never really polished my shoes the traditional way. I don’t [...]
Spiderman Fruit Tray
There’s 1 thing you know when you have little boys… and that’s the joy of Super Heroes. Every little boy has a favorite super hero. My oldest son absolutely LOVES Spiderman, so I got creative one day in the kitchen & made a themed fruit tray for my lil’ webslinger! Needless to say, it has [...]
Indy Style Meets The Produce Mom
On Wednesday I was the featured guest on Indianapolis’ swanky morning talk show – Indy Style! Oh, it was so much fun! LIVE interviews & cooking demos are simply exhilarating.
Shop Green
DID YOU KNOW… …Half of the food that’s produced in the world goes to waste, which in turn wastes the precious resources used to produce & ship it? YOU can help by ONLY buying the food you will use …If we all used our own reusable shopping bag just ONCE a week, we’d keep 16 [...]
Celebrate Earth Month
We are approaching Earth Day – it’s in just 1 week! I have joined forces with Earthbound Farm & our celebrations for April 22nd start NOW. I’m encouraging each & every one of you to SHOP LIKE THE EARTH DEPENDS ON IT…. every cart at the grocery store counts! Simple modifications are highly-effective & that’s [...]
