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Don’t Blame the Vegetables!

3-Get Vegetable Friendly, Money Saving Tips and Tricks, Planning for Healthier Meals, Uncategorized

They’re Not at Fault for Rotting in the Frig ‘Tis the season of vegetable abundance, and with it comes worry about refrigerator rot as we begin loading up  (and over-loading ) on the fabulous produce coming to market.  As some people joke, don’t let...

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. ...

What’s Going on in the Winter Garden?

3-Get Vegetable Friendly, 5-New Kitchen Thinking, Seasonal Eating, Uncategorized

Just a Dead Zone. . . or Place of Active Resting? We just published the Winter issue of Vegetable a Month, online magazine.  Here’s the cover: We loved this picture for the Winter issue.  It was the brainchild of our Creative Director, Claudia Chang.  Of course...

Sweet Success with Leek Cooking

3-Get Vegetable Friendly, 6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, Uncategorized

Cooking offers so much more than just some food we can eat to not be hungry anymore.  Like a sense of accomplishment.  That’s what I felt after cooking some leeks that were really good. Successfully cooking leeks may not sound like much, unless you know all the...

Kale Cooking Lessons

3-Get Vegetable Friendly, 6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Building Block Techniques

Had a great class last night about cooking kale–how to blanch it in salt water to remove the harshness and make it more tender.    Then we used it in a well-received dish:  Kale Pizza with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto and Sauteed Pears.  At the end, however, someone...

Vegetable Exhaustion

1-Healthy Eating Clarity, 3-Get Vegetable Friendly, 4-Healthy Friendly Kitchen, 6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Planning for Healthier Meals, Uncategorized

Investment Thinking + 4 Days of Meal Ideas Put Ease into a Vegetable Life I suffered a case of Vegetable Exhaustion last night while driving to a friend’s house, loaded with prepared vegetables.  After a nasty ski accident landed her in bed for three months, she...
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