When buying eggs at the supermarket, you will find a dizzying array of choices. You have to choose from caged, cage-free, free-range, pasture-raised, organic, Certified Humane, and more. How do you decide which eggs to buy? Is it “bad” to just go for the cheapest ones? Do you pick something on the middle end price-wise […]
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Celebrating the Idaho Potato Harvest (Part 1)
After a trip to Idaho to witness the Idaho Potato harvest, we have potatoes on our mind. We spent four fascinating days with the Idaho Potato Commission learning more about the annual potato harvest, watching potato processing in action, and sampling delicious potato recipes. We will never look at a potato the same way again. […]
Triple Carrot Ginger Salad – Not Your Typical Salad
Have you made a resolution to eat more salad? Great! This triple carrot ginger salad has just about everything you’re looking for. Let’s break it down: If you think of a salad as an obligation, or as a monotonous stream of green lettuce leaves, you’re making it a lot more tedious than it really needs […]
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 […]
Most Awesome Mushroom Polenta Bacon Bites
Does your family eat mushrooms? If they do (and even if they don’t), we have a sure-fire way to get them to love mushrooms with these Mushroom Polenta Bacon Bites. Mushroom Nutrition In the Jolly Tomato household, we often keep mushrooms available in the fridge so we can add them to anything at a […]
Natural Green Food for St. Patrick’s Day
Each year when St. Patrick’s Day rolls around, we get inundated with images of food in unnatural shades of green. This always makes us scratch our heads because some of the most beautiful green food we’ve ever seen comes straight from the earth, no food dyes required. True, there aren’t that many naturally green desserts, […]