Main Dishes

“Stank-a-Dank” Crock Pot Pork Spare Ribs

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Every time I make them, my Chinese 5-Spice Pork Ribs fill the whole house for hours with their intensely sweet, pungent aroma. For this reason, my husband recently started calling them “Stank-a-Dank Ribs.”  So, after elaborate polling and random double-blind sampling a Facebook vote, “Stank-a-Dank Ribs” became their official new name. These stinky-but-delicious, Asian-style crock pot pork spare [...]

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The Cost of Food Waste: Saving Food on Thanksgiving

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There are consequences to our national habit of sending food to landfills. American food waste has significant environmental, economic, and cultural ramifications. On average, Americans waste 40 percent of our food supply, which is more than 1400 calories of food per person per day, reports a study by a team of National Institute of Health [...]

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30 Minute Chili Recipe

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This recipe has been on our weekly menu plan since July, and it’s always a crowd-pleaser. This chili is light and fresh tasting because I use tomatoes from the garden, a jar or a tetrapak instead of from a toxic, BPA-lined aluminum can. I leave out the cayenne entirely so it’s even yummy to my [...]

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Pork: Traditional Food or Health Menace? (And a Crockpot Recipe)

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Based on what I’ve learned about traditionally marinating fresh pork, I made the slow cooker pork shoulder recipe below the other night, and it was, hands down, the best roast I had ever tasted. I think you will enjoy it too!

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Raw Eggplant Ravioli

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Eggplants are ready for harvest in the garden, and they are making their appearance in my CSA box too. Eggplants are beautiful, relatively easy vegetables to grow and delicious, diversely nutritious vegetables to eat. 

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Minimal-Mercury Marinated Tuna

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Because of emissions from power plants and garbage incinerators, tuna absorbs significant amounts of methylmercury, a form of mercury that concentrates in the fatty tissues of big fish and humans.

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Got a Beef with Beef? Try Traditional Tartare!

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Many people give animal foods a bad rap, blaming them for cancer, heart disease and a host of other health problems. But humans have been eating animal products for our entire existence. In fact, some of the healthiest and longest-lived peoples on our planet, the Okinawans (Japan), Maasai (Kenya and Tanzania)** and Hunzakuts (Pakistan) eat [...]

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