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Cranberry Jicama Star Appetizers – Easy and Tasty

So you’re having a party, and you’d like to serve some fresh and healthy appetizers, but you’d rather make your kids do most of the work? Done! These cranberry jicama star appetizers are gluten-free and use only unprocessed ingredients. Even better, they just involve some quick prep work on your part. Then the kids can […]

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Purple Pie

Lovely Leftovers

Leftovers, let me tell you: You’ve got an image problem. It starts with your name: Leftovers. You’re basically telling everyone that you are the food that no one had use for the first time around. How are you going to get anyone interested in you with a reputation like that? The truth is, you’re still […]

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Sweet potato side dish

A “Plant Slant” Thanksgiving

Here’s a question to ponder: What if your Thanksgiving turkey was merely the side dish? What if you served crowning jewels of colorful fruit and vegetable plates that took center stage, and you set the turkey off to the side as almost an afterthought? It’s not an entirely bad idea for Thanksgiving, and it’s certainly […]

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Honey/Balsamic Kuri Squash Recipe

What’s a kuri squash? The other day, a friend mentioned that she tried one of these squashes, which we had never heard of before. Then, whaddya know, the next day our CSA basket arrived with a little red kuri squash inside. The kuri squash are notable for their reddish color and onion-like shape. In French, […]

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black garlic hummus

Black Garlic Pumpkin Hummus

It’s getting closer and closer to October 31 and we just can’t resist making more Halloween-themed food. Our friends over at Frieda’s Specialty Produce sent us a bunch of spooky foods including rambutan and Buddha’s hand citron, but the black garlic was the most mysterious. Why is it black? What does it taste like? And […]

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100-year-old olive trees at Lodestar Farms

Farm Water and Farm-Fresh Food

There’s one question that keeps coming up as we continue our Real Food farm tour project. Why should consumers care about or get to know about farm water? And what does it have to do with our food and where it comes from? We’ve learned a great deal about farm water in the past few […]

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Spooky Rice Ghosts for Halloween

After our recent visit to a rice farm, we can’t wait to cook with rice. And what better season than Halloween than to make these “spooky” rice ghosts? We started this project with sushi rice, the ultimate shape-able, mold-able rice for making creepy creations. Sushi riceĀ  has a very round, short grain and is very […]

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