Zucchini-Pallooza: Showcase Summer Abundance with Zucchini Snacks

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Beware: This Saturday night, August 8, is “Sneak Some Zucchini on Your Neighbor’s Porch Night.” As a Midwest gardener, I’m guilty of using all forms of sneaky tactics to deplete my zucchini abundance on our farm this time of year. But most of all, I’m on the lookout for new ways to use zucchini and [...]

Time Saving Gluten Free Products You’ll Love

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If you’re living a gluten free life, there are a couple of companies that I’ve come to love over the years for the wonderful products they make.  They’re both great time savers for those days when you’re rushed, short of time, or just don’t have the means to prepare a meal from scratch. Pamela’s Baking [...]

Meatless Monday: An Icy Drink and A Creamy Dinner Dish

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Meatless Mondays have evolved to include Tofu Tuesdays, Wheat-Free Wednesday (every day is wheat free in our household), Tightwad Thursdays (otherwise known as food on the cheap) and Fun Fridays. Our family enjoys a minimum of two nights a week sans meat and often I sneak in a few more.  Fridays are always fun, because [...]

Meatless Mondays: Easy Veggie Burger with Carrots, Zucchini, Chickpeas and Halloumi Cheese

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A lot of supermarket vegetarian burgers try so hard to resemble meat that they ignore the fact that vegetables actually taste delicious in the first place. Why try to replicate a beef burger with a monotonously colored brown thing full of mysterious ingredients and even weirder textures when you can eat a vegetable burger that [...]

Lambsquarter

Lambsquarter - Chenopodium Album

“The salad is bitter this year.” My daughter is referring to the lambsquarter (Chenopodium album).  I pull a leaf from the waist-high plant and taste it.  She’s right; it’s bitter.  We usually eat the lambsquarter raw, but today I’ll need to cook it before she decides to never eat it again. Sometimes referred to as [...]

Meatless Mondays: “Eat This-Not That” Top 5 Vegetarian Foods to Eat Everyday

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According to the folks over at Eat This Not That, there are certain nutrients you should try to eat every day for optimum health. In case you needed a few more reasons to cut back on overly processed and animal based foods, all of the nutrients just happen to be found in natural plant based [...]