If you haven’t jumped onto the quinoa bandwagon, it’s time to get a leg on up! Quinoa has a lot to offer: it’s a whole grain, it’s available in a variety of colors (the “confetti”-style quinoa usually includes red, black, and tan quinoa), and it cooks in 10 minutes flat. Plus, it even gets a [...]
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Move aside, saggy tuna salad! Try swapping that store-bought mayo for a simple drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil combined with a shake of dried basil and a sprinkling of Parmesan. Not only will your lunch taste better, it’ll be better for you since most store-bought mayonnaise is made with soybean and/or corn oil that has [...]
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The days may be getting a little bit cooler, but that’s no excuse not to enjoy ice cream! Especially ice cream made with corn and basil, two crops that are just as happy in fall as they are in the summer months. Plus, I’ve sweetened this batch of ice cream with local honey and enriched [...]
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Many people assume that summertime brings the most fruits and veggies to the table, but early fall is actually the prime time for both home gardeners and farmers: in September, corn is the sweetest, tomatoes are bursting at the stems, herbs are going gangbusters. And then there are the furiously growing zucchinis and pumpkins and all [...]
When temperatures soar and we’re in the waning dog days of summer, it’s time to reach for dishes that are crisp, cool, and fresh. Enter brined mozzarella: while it may not be crisp, it definitely fits into the “cool and fresh” category. And like all fresh cheeses — as opposed to aged cheeses, which tend [...]
It’s August, and gardens are in full swing! Whether you have tomatoes or beans or broccoli or peppers, this quick salad is a great way to make use of whatever you have on hand. And to add a classic touch, how about tossing it with some fresh mozzarella and torn-up pieces of toasted tortilla? It’s [...]
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Ounce for ounce, we spend a LOT more on beverages than we do on food. And I’m not even talking about alcoholic beverages. I’m talking about bottled water, bottled tea, bottled juice, pop, kombucha…all of it. While I like to splurge on fizzy mineral water once in a while — as much as I wish [...]
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Summertime = pesto. No two ways about it. Summertime also = tomatoes, but as much as I adore a fresh-from-the-garden tomato, the lure of the basil plant is even stronger. Hence my annual recipe for pesto. This year, though, I decided to combine my favorite fresh herb with my favorite fish: wild salmon. (Salmon season [...]
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The beautiful triangle of seafood sustainability, good taste, and good health is hard to come by: lots of fish and seafood are overfished or are farmed under ecologically devastating conditions, fresh fish (and therefore fresh taste) can be hard to find, and canned/tinned fish like tuna is more often than not packaged in less-than-stellar oils [...]
“Eat your greens!” people like to say. They’re right — you should. Mostly because they’re tasty (inexpensively so) and because they’re good for you. Usually people mean dark leafy veggies like spinach and kale when they say “greens.” But what about the other, untapped greens that are even more likely to be growing just outside [...]
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