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Arugula-Ready Recipes

September 29, 2009 Garden & Farm

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 [...]

Raw Butternut Squash Cookies

September 22, 2009 Factory-Free Food

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 [...]

Date Night!

September 4, 2009 Factory-Free Food

The date palm, native to the Middle East, also grows easily in the Mediterranean climate of Southern California. For the past two weeks, my CSA box has included a bag full of the freshest, sweetest dates I’ve ever had. As a recent transplant to the West Coast, I had never had a fresh date before. [...]

Raw Eggplant Ravioli

August 26, 2009 Garden & Farm

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.

Minimal-Mercury Marinated Tuna

August 12, 2009 Factory-Free Food

Americans eat nearly three pounds of tuna each every year (usually in cans), making it the nation’s second most popular seafood after shrimp. The government promotes it via school lunch programs, WIC (the federal food program for poor women and children), and even in the U.S. Department of Agriculture dietary recommendations. Low in fat, high [...]

Speed Pickles

August 4, 2009 Factory-Free Food

The cucumbers are ripe in the Small Footprint garden, and with the amount in my garden and my CSA box, it seemed like a good time to make pickles. And with so many things ripe in the garden right now, once I got started, I caught a “pickle bug” and just couldn’t stop. Here are [...]

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