Imagine what a nice surprise it is to walk in the door and see this wonderful organic green juice box from Melissa’s. It’s like opening an indoor garden: What’s in the Box? This Organic Green Juice Box is a featured delivery item from Melissa’s. The contents of the box will vary by season. But you […]
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Warm Baby Kale-Leek Salad in Crispy Cups
Do you need a salad that doesn’t really look like a salad? Then this Warm Baby Kale-Leek Salad in Crispy Cups is the salad for you. The inspiration for this salad came from the fact that we’re now seeing baby kale all over the place. It reminds us that there are so many ways to […]
Lundberg Rice Farm Visit
Rice: It’s one of the major food staples of the world. It’s one of the first foods most of of eat as babies. It’s ubiquitous in many varieties of ethnic cooking. And yet, most of us (well, at least we’re speaking for the Jolly Tomato here) don’t have any clue what happens on a rice […]
Real Food: Making Chocolate at the Theo Factory
Chocolate?!? Sure, we’ll happily eat it, but does it belong in our “real food” series? The good news: Yes – if it’s made the real way. To get the scoop on real, pure, honest-to-goodness chocolate, we visited the Theo Chocolate factory in Seattle. Theo is the first organic and Fair Trade chocolate company in the […]
Real Food: Honey and Urban Beekeeping
Sure, you’ve seen plenty of bee hives out and about, but how does urban beekeeping really work? To answer this question, we took a visit to an urban bee farm in Seattle. Where Does Honey Come From? The idea for visiting a bee farm came from a perfectly innocent question. When one of our kids […]
Real Food: Olive Oil and Olive Farming
We are olive oil addicts in the Jolly Tomato household. And yet olive farming has always been something of a mystery to us. Sure, we use olive oil in just about every meal. But how do you get oil out of a bunch of olives? That’s a question that we were determined to answer as […]