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Raw Butternut Squash Cookies

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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Date Night!

Fresh, ripe dates are juicy and sweet, with a crisp skin. Here are some easy recipes to help you enjoy the special qualities of fresh dates.

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Raw Eggplant Ravioli

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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Speed Pickles

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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Sun Dried Heaven

Sun-dried tomatoes are one of my favorite foods. I love their concentrated, sweet tomato-ness in just about everything, and will even eat them straight when soaked in olive oil. But at the store, they are a pricey delicacy that either come in tiny, quickly-used jars or in bags that always look too dry and often [...]

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Cool Figs on a Hot Summer Night

Figs are coming into season here in Southern California, and my tree is absolutely loaded with them. Yum! Native to the Middle East, figs were one of the first fruits ever to be cultivated. Seeing how they grow effortlessly and abundantly here without any real pests, I understand why California currently ranks third in the world [...]

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