Healthier you, greener planet
From the category archives:
The nutrients in eggs are varied and plentiful. That combined with their low cost should make them a winner with frugal cooks around the globe.
However, during the past couple of decades, the greatness of eggs has been clouded. Mainly, it was because of the misinformation that dietary cholesterol leads to high blood cholesterol (which is [...]
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My husband will be happy. I bought some crimini mushrooms today, for the first time in a long time. I haven’t been because, frankly, they cost extra dinero. Since our food bill is already going through the roof with the addition of another eater in the house, I thought, do we really need them?
One could [...]
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Vegetable soup recipes can get a bit dull sometimes. But I recently created a recipe for a vegetable soup that both my husband and I found quite tasty, if I do say so myself.
I don’t often invent recipes, but the several zucchini and yellow squash I received from my last food co-op pick-up, [...]
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Egg nog often gets a bad rap these days. “Be careful what you drink,” the health “experts” caution, “raw eggs might give you salmonella.” (Um, a 1 in 30,000 chance, by the way.)
In my opinion, the the super-thick, super-rich concoction in cartons–which, of course, contain only heated egg yolks–carries much higher health risks than salmonella. [...]
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My husband loves cheesecake. As such, that is his ongoing birthday dessert request.
As The Crunchy Coach, however, I feel obligated to make sure even special desserts are as healthy as possible. But a healthy cheesecake? One made without refined sugar and chemical preservatives, and made with organic cheese…is there such a creature?
I have good news [...]
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Well, if it’s not THE healthiest bread in the world, it’s got to come close!
I’m talking about the sourdough bread I bake every couple weeks. Why do I think it’s the healthiest? Four reasons:
I make mine with kamut berries.
I sprout and dehydrate the berries, then grind them myself.
It contains the nutrition powerhouse known as raw [...]
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Behold the eggplant;
Egg-shaped majesty,
Thou art a purple-cloaked mystery:
Do you fruit or veggie be?
Well, enough of that. I’m not a poet and I do know it, thank you very much. I’m also not a huge eggplant fan–at least I wasn’t, until earlier this week.
An eggplant showed up quite without my permission in my food co-op bin [...]
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