I got to visit a Farmer's Market over the weekend. They had a huge array of tropical fruits, local grown seasonal produce, fresh herbs, sunflowers and more!

This salad goes well with grilled fish or chicken or even a pasta dinner.

This clever recipes combines spaghetti squash with spaghetti to lower the calories and add more veggies to the dish

This sauce offers a great way to use and store a large quantity of fresh tomatoes from your garden or the farmers' market.

This pesto offers a great way to flavor pasta, rice, and grilled items. It also makes a delicious bread or cracker spread. You can even add more herbs when you serve it too.

A traditional pesto has more ingredients – like garlic, pine nuts, other herbs, etc. and you can certainly add all of those, but there is also nothing wrong with simply preserving an herb in olive oil and freezing it and using it like pesto.

I realized at the end that I did not chop a thing! That is thanks to the ingredients I found in the store - the Gourmet Garden basil and garlic tubes and the box of sodium-free pomodoro tomatoes.