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Cook seasonally: how to eat a daily artichoke
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I grew up near the "Artichoke Center of the World" (Castroville, California), but the only way we ever ate the vegetable was by peeling and eating the (boiled) leaves one by one after dipping them in plenty of mayonnaise. Given that it was usually more mayonnaise than artichoke, we tended ...
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2 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A healthy, homemade fast food: rice balls
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As a mom- and as a snacker- I'm always looking for more finger foods (especially anything vegetarian). Since lately my daughter has been asking for rice, I decided I wanted to try to make Japanese rice balls. I happened to be having lunch yesterday with a friend from Tokyo ...
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6 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 2 comments
Naturally-sweetened banana bread
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Rotting- or overly ripe- bananas have amazing strength as a sweetener. Add them to a bit of flour, egg and oil and what would have been bread is really more of a cake. This recipe for sugar-free banana bread has quite a few optional ingredients because the bananas play such ...
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7 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
What to do with rotting bananas: sugar-free banana bread
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If you've got some rotting bananas lying around, before you trash them, consider how sweet they are. They make a nice substitute for processed sugar.While fruit sugar (fructose) on its own isn't necessarily a better alternative to cane sugar (note the battle over high fructose corn syrup ...
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7 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
Winter spinach salad with seasonal fruit
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It's easy to think of salads as having as much diversity as what type of dressing you throw on top, but all salads don't begin with butter lettuce (hint: that is more of a summer produce).During wintertime, for example, the heartier greens are more plentiful. So think ...
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7 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A seasonal winter salad: green cabbage coleslaw
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If you're trying to eat from a veggie garden or from an allotment (box scheme, etc), you'll discover that in the wintertime, your options for salads differ from supermarket fare. And that might be a good thing. There are some really healthy foods that many of us have ...
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7 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
How to make hummus without preservatives or plastic
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Hummus is such a great healthy, meat-free fast food, but if you buy it in the supermarket, it often comes with preservatives and plastic packaging. Thankfully, it's rather simple to make at home with just a few ingredients and a blender or food processor. Not only can you avoid ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
How to make Slow Gnocchi
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Anne Gillis likes to make gnocchi the old-fashioned way: by hand and chemical-free (i.e. organic). This Italian-born, California-raised octogenarian learned to make gnocchi- a traditional Italian potato pasta- from her mother.Believing that anything out of a box is dead, she continues to cook nearly all her own food ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Cook seasonal: Chef Carlin battles our fear of potatoes (II)
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Trying to cook seasonally can appear daunting at times, particularly when it seems that potatoes are the vegetable of the month. In this video, Chef Carlin Greenstein took us beyond the baked and the fried options and showed us how to prepare steamed Japanese sweet potatoes.
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Outback Café: cooking with Kutjera and Lemon Myrtle
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Muntrie berries and Tanami apples, Kutjera and Wattleseed: "this is the true cuisine of this country. It's not a meat pie or a Fosters and it's not a prawn on a barbie." Australian Aboriginal chef Mark Olive has been using this food in his cooking for over twenty ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
