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Canning Tomatoes When Convenience is King
"That's a lot of work!" Put up a couple boxes of tomatoes, pick my neighbor's plums so they don't go to waste or spend a Saturday morning stocking up at the Farmers' Market and there's a good chance I'll be met with exclamations about how much effort that must have...
Food Day Every Day
Food Day is my kind of day--a day to celebrate food that is safe, healthful, affordable, local, seasonal and most of all delightfully delicious. All over the country, there will be potlucks, film screenings, talks, food drives and other events in honor of Food Day. ...
Guardians of Nutrition?
What’s a swirl of pink stuff doing on our healthy eating blog? Here’s the better question: Why’s this pink stuff being fed to our kids–and dogs?
Fast Lunches–for Big Kids or Small
Looking for quick lunches that are wholesome, too? The frozen foods aisle has a good selection of real, whole foods all washed, cut and ready to pop in the microwave. Combine with a few strategic deli purchases and ready made sauces for a meal that’s faster than fast food but still tasty, fresh and healthful.
Recipe: Quick Curry Skillet Makes Delicious Use of Beet Greens
Need a Fast Dinner or Lunch? Make Creative Use of Your Refrigerator's Treasures I promise to stop talking about beets--but not yet. After our final class on beet relish last night at Isabelle Farm, I came home with another pile of beet greens--my third in as many...
Affordable Organics?
Think organics are too expensive? Try this on for size: What if, every time you purchased an organic vegetable, you actually got not just one but two or three vegetables? No doubt that would make the economic equation a lot more attractive.
Recipe: Sauteed Beet Greens composed with Toasted Walnuts, Bacon Bits, & Chopped Egg
Want to make organic vegetables more affordable? Use every part of the vegetable and double your vegetable dollars, as in this recipe that uses beet greens.
The Beauty of Relishes
Could relish-making be the key for busy people who want nutritious meals without spending a lot of time in the kitchen? Time to move it from quaint and old-fashioned and into the category of vital skills for healthy eaters.
Kitchen Essentials: The Humble Storage Container
Food storage containers don’t rank in the A-list of kitchen gadgets like sleek Kitchen Aid stand mixers and shiny All-Clad cookware. But hear this: If you are interested in meals with any of these attributes–healthy, efficient, affordable, stress-free and/or tasty–then you need decent storage containers. The yogurt cups and take out tubs can (mostly) be recycled so get a set of sturdy containers that will last for years. Read more on the benefit.
Best Practice Secrets of Good Every Day Cooks
For a recent magazine article, Martha Stewart was asked how often she orders take out. Her response was something like a couple times over the last 15 years.
Fact is, there are people “out there” who make healthy, good-tasting meals night after night like it’s no big deal. What do they know that most people don’t?
Brain Eating Stress and the Cooking Solution
If you can’t find relaxation time, consider that time making meals can double as stress-relief time
The Special Beauty of Old Things
Turning hard grain kernels into soft baking flour I have a fondness for things that have withstood the test of time--like Farmer John's grain mill. Manufactured in the 1940s and having traveled across three states before landing in Colorado, the mill is still in fine...