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Gai Lan Egg Cups for Chinese New Year

What are you going to eat for Chinese New Year? Our recommendation: Gai Lan Egg Cups. So what is gai lan, exactly? It’s a flavorful Asian green. Actually, it’s one of many flavorful Asian greens that more Americans should get to know better. That group also includes bok choy, sugar snap peas, and Chinese long […]

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Year of the Green Dragon Apple

You know how much we love apples around here, so you can see why fall is one of the happiest seasons at our house. Just when we thought we had tried them all (OK, maybe not) we discovered the Green Dragon Apple (courtesy of Melissa’s Produce). And they’re probably a new favorite. What’s a Green […]

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Colorful Cauliflower

Often when we hear people talk about cauliflower, we hear the word “bland” tossed around. Bland – really? Have you ever seen this colorful cauliflower from Frieda’s Produce ? Choose cauliflower in its amazing deep shades of gold or purple and you’ve got the prettiest dinner in town. After we saw this colorful pair, we […]

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Beet Soup – Super-Easy and Super-Tasty

Roses? Rubies? If you want to show Mom some truly brilliant shades of red and pink for Mother’s Day, serve her a beautiful beet soup. That’s right, beets. Even though we live on a different coast from our mom, we know she’d love this brightly hued beet soup. It’s super-easy and super-tasty – simple enough […]

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Orange-Ginger Lemonade is a Refreshing Treat

Got fresh produce from the farmers’ market? That means it’s a chance to make orange-ginger lemonade. Of course we’ve mentioned that on farmers’ market days we love to cook greens and make pesto. But we love doing fun things with the fruit as well – and that means more than just making mini-jitos. When we […]

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A Whole Foods Tour with Healthy Foods

Have you ever taken a Whole Foods tour? Even if  you’ve shopped there many times, you will discover many new things on a behind-the-scenes tour. We recently had a chance to take a tour, and we learned lots of interesting factoids. First things first: We know that the prevailing stereotype is that Whole Foods is […]

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