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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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Sun Dried Heaven

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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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Keeping Cool with Lavender Lemonade

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Lavender is blooming now in my garden, not only looking and smelling beautiful, but attracting bees and other pollinators to the rest of my plants. Lavender is easy to grow in any well-drained soil, and is a relatively drought tolerant, perennial plant that adds interest to any garden with its grey leaves and tall, purple [...]

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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 mostly animal products for our entire existence. In fact, the healthiest and longest-lived peoples on our planet, the Okinawans (Japan), Maasai (Kenya and Tanzania) and Hunzakuts (Pakistan) eat traditional [...]

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Coconut Water Kefir and Probiotic Pudding

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Young coconut water is best fermented by adding either water kefir grains or a prepared kefir powder to it. Kefir is a unique combination of probiotic bacteria and healthy yeast which consume the sugars in the coconut water, making the drink bubbly and delicious.

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