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Even More About Getting More Beans into Your Diet
More tips on money-saving, cooking dried beans in a super accelerated fashion, classes and using bean juice.
More About Getting More Beans into Your Diet
Nutrition, Inspiration and Avoiding Troublesome Gaseous Issues Nutrition While beans are packed with nutrients and protein, I try not to focus unduly on nutrition facts, like how Food G has XYZ nutrients while Food S has ABC nutrients. This approach turns healthy...
Getting More Beans Into Your Diet
Granted, many view beans as “desert island” food, as in, something reserved for when they are stranded on a desert island. But those in the know see gold in a batch of colorful beans. In case you’ve yet to discover this treasure, here are two key tips for getting started.
Recipe: Using Beans in Green Salads
This salad features canned and frozen mix-ins. While these convenient foods are a good way to quickly perk up a salad, they’re also great for adding color, texture and heartiness to salads in the winter months, when tomatoes, cucumbers and other common salad standbys are out of season (and are therefore quite expensive and not very tasty.)
Dried Beans–More Cooking Tips
Two helpful tips for cooking dried beans.
Onion Googles–They’re for Real
Crying a lot over onions? Maybe onion goggles are for you.
Quick Recipe: Miso Chard Soup
Miso is a thick seasoning paste made from soybeans. It hails from Japan, where it has been eaten for centuries. To the modern kitchen it brings flavor that's super fast but nutritious . Really, you don't have to fool with any other seasonings. Just add a dollop of...
Making Healthy Food Affordable: The Direct Buying Strategy
For our healthy meal making classes, we always bring "clean" meat (i.e., free of antibiotics and growth hormones, humanely processed and often locally grown and processed, grass-fed and/or organic, free-range, etc.) Participants love how it tastes and wonder where it...
The High Cost of Healthy Food?
Moving the Conversation Past the Dead End Sign It's a mantra, said almost automatically any more: "I can't afford healthy food. It's too expensive." Like Time, Affordability is a dead-ender. In other words, once raised, it effectively dead ends a conversation about...
Trip to a Food Basket
There's a part of Colorado you probably don't know about. Mostly, we Coloradans live in a narrow band of settlement, strung out along the foothills that run north and south. From there, Colorado stretches to the west, into the spectacular peaks, canyons, mesas and...
Greengages and Variety
I remember reading about it years ago, in Eat Here, Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket. Among hundreds of interesting insights into our food system, Brian Halweil revealed this tidbit: Britain's National Collection features of 2000 varieties of...
Cooking as a Thinking Activity
I once had a job opening envelopes. All day long. I quit after four days. It was either that or take up a drug habit to survive the mindlessness. I thought about that experience today, as I was sautéing plums to freeze for winter. I did this last year and the...