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Pity Poor Pea Soup

1-Healthy Eating Clarity, 3-Get Vegetable Friendly, New Ingredients

Is it time to grow up?  Poor pea soup keeps getting ignored just because its color has squeamish connotations that date back to childhood.  How I got the courage to dive in and discover a dish that’s really quite delicious. Some foods have a hard lot in life. ...

Danger in the Gluten-Free Aisle

1-Healthy Eating Clarity, Food, Gluten-Free/Wheat-Free Eating, Uncategorized

Hold the celebration Not long ago, a news article reported on a conference to support those of us who must live without gluten.  In a food world dominated by gluten products, lord knows we need support, as well as information on all the new gluten-free products coming...

How About a Quick, “White-Free” Snack

1-Healthy Eating Clarity, 3-Get Vegetable Friendly, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, New Ingredients, Uncategorized

The previous post offered some theories about why it’s so hard to get the white out of our diets.  While that’s being resolved (BTW, please be sure to leave a comment with your thoughts), here’s an idea if you feel yourself getting sucked into a 4:00...

Using Herbs and Spices: More on Flavor Families

Food, Herbs & Spices, New Ingredients

This multiple-entry post on herbs and spices was sparked by Julee Rosso’s recipe for Beef Stew with Eggplant (Great Good Food, p. 487).  Its unusual combination of spices ignited an entire exploration into using herbs and spices more often and more creatively. On the...

Is it OK to use the garlic and ginger that comes in jars?

Food, Healthy Pantry Know-How, Herbs & Spices

Those little jars of prepared garlic and ginger are so completely convenient!  No fussing with paper-thin garlic peels, no paring gnarly knobs of ginger or endangering fingers on the ginger grater and no garlic-smelling hands for the rest of the night.  But is it OK...

What to Do with Extra Eggplant?

3-Get Vegetable Friendly, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Food

A Story and Recipe Eggplant is such a rich vegetable.  I only need one, maybe two each month to be satisfied.  So it was concerning when my vegetable box showed up with a HUGE eggplant.  Just half  was plenty for the tomato and fennel stew I had planned.  So what...
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