Viride Oasis

When friends give you a sugar pumpkin, you make hummus. 🎃

Post-tennis second breakfast: warm tacos with pumpkin hummus, fluffy scrambled eggs and pickled red onions.

And apparently, New Jersey has 30+ pumpkin varieties suited to our growing season — which makes September feel even more fun.

Simple, seasonal, nourishing — and exactly what I wanted.

I’m really excited about this one! ❤️ Next week I’ll be leading a four-day Around the World Cooking Camp for kids ages 12–14 at Little Fox Kitchen, and of course we’re starting our little culinary trip in Poland. 🇵🇱

We’ll be making blueberry pierogi served with sweet vanilla yogurt, traditional berry kompot and chocolate bark with all kinds of fun toppings. A little bit of cooking, a little bit of learning, lots of tasting and probably some mess along the way. :)

I can’t wait to have these kids in the kitchen and see what they create. Poland, here we come! 🇵🇱🫐

Hot weather calls for chilling soups! And this one comes with a little gut-loving bonus 💛

Beets 🫜 are rich in fiber and polyphenols — plant compounds that help nourish a diverse gut microbiome and may support beneficial bacteria like Akkermansia muciniphila, one of the microbes getting lots of attention for its role in gut barrier and metabolic health.

So yes… chłodnik can be refreshing, delicious AND feed your tiny gut friends.

Got a 12–14-year-old at home? Send them our way. 😂👩‍🍳

We’ll let them chop, mix, roll, cook, experiment and make all the mess they want 👍

You don’t have to worry about the flour on the floor, the pile of dirty dishes… or them setting your kitchen on fire. 🔥😂

We’ll cook, we’ll eat, we’ll make a mess, we’ll clean it up — and hopefully send them home knowing how to make you dinner. 😉

Sounds like a win-win to me. ❤️👩‍🍳

📍 August 24-27 | Little Fox Kitchen