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Pumpkin Love

October 14, 2009 Garden & Farm
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Pumpkin is a ubiquitous part of the American fall season—which is understandable, considering that it’s indigenous to this part of the world. The Native Americans used it as both a food and a medicine. The first settlers from Europe added it to their diets and then some of them helped spread it to the rest [...]

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Arugula-Ready Recipes

September 29, 2009 Garden & Farm
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The cool weather greens are just starting to come ready for harvest here, and this week both my garden and my CSA box have plenty of arugula with which to make salads and other delights. Arugula is a very nutritious, leafy green vegetable with an unusual spicy flavor. Arugula is high in vitamins A, C [...]

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Raw Butternut Squash Cookies

September 22, 2009 Factory-Free Food
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Before I had Babyzilla, I was a regular Cookie Monster. I loved cookies in all their permutations, chewy, crunchy, chocolately, nutty and spicy. However, now that we eat grain and dairy-free, I have to find other ways to satisfy my cookie craving. If you’re senstive to gluten, on a raw food or GAPS/SCD diet, or [...]

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Watermelon Rind Pickles

September 15, 2009 Factory-Free Food
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Melons are ready for harvest and this week I found a yellow watermelon and a cantaloupe in my CSA box. Seems like as good a time as any to make an old-fashioned Southern treat: Watermelon rind pickles. 

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Raw Eggplant Ravioli

August 26, 2009 Garden & Farm
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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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Chocolate Covered… Bacon?

August 18, 2009 Factory-Free Food
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This month at the County Fair, one of the vendors was selling chocolate covered bacon. Apparently, it’s all the rage on the Fair circuit this year. I bet I know what you’re thinking right now: “Chocolate covered… BACON? Ewww!” And now that you’ve thought about it a little longer, you’re perhaps finding the idea oddly [...]

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