One-Bowl Meals for Too Fast Lives

The Hearty Mexican Posole Soup with Radish Cabbage Arugula Salad Garnish (choice of vegan bean or pork version) that is featured for this week’s Delivered Dishes of the Week is an excellent one-bowl meal. See pithy descriptions for the next 2 weeks’ menus on the Menu Archive. One-bowl meals are a way of life for [...]

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Jan – Feb Menus

Jan 15 – 21 1) Green Tamale Casserole. Vegan, gluten-free. You asked and you shall receive! The most popular dish of Fall 2011 is back. Presented in a foil loaf pan, this layers beans & chopped kale stewed in a tomatillo sauce with steamed corn tamale dough made from Bob’s Red Mill organic masa flour. [...]

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Sustainable Sustenance

Last night I oversaw a community dinner for 60. The goal was to make it locavore and vegan. Sized up what was available at the farmers’ market and decided on Ratatouille to take advantage of the very last zucchini and to bid farewell to summer. Main components are zucchini, eggplant and tomatoes, with optional bell [...]

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Ohh-kra-homa

You may have noticed market tables piled high with unfamiliar greens that are being snapped up by Africans. Okra leaves! Well that makes sense, doesn’t it? given the abundance of locally grown okra. The greens are very mild, similar to beet greens. Try one raw and you’ll see how mild. I sauteed them like beet [...]

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Ahhhh…!

That’s the sound of relief and pleasure at the perfect summer days and cooler nights we’re finally experiencing. I can turn on the oven again! Roasting all these lovely market veggies is an easy way to prepare them, especially in quantities to feed you all week-long. Don’t have to peel anything, don’t have to watch [...]

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Cornucopia of Comforting Corn Dishes

Ahh, the first snowfall of the season and a doozy at that! We awoke to a world seemingly dipped in whipped cream. Heavy, nearly clotted cream, in fact. And thus the season of serious tea drinking commences. How appropriate, then, is my choice of the Delivered Dish of the Week, Posole, which I have been [...]

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Zucchini Linguine

Raw zucchini linguine (link to recipe) was a hit at today’s Little Locavore shows! My wonderful volunteers really got into food preparation. We could have spent the entire half hour on that.  But, then we would not have had the chance to enjoy the Zucchini Baton Relay Race or the Aunty Oxidant & Free Radicals [...]

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Raw zucchini “linguine”

Yes, that’s right, raw noodle-like shreds of zucchini, with a fresh marinara sauce. Delicious, zesty, a little crunchy and VERY low in calories. We’re going to make this dish on Sunday at the Mpls Farmers Market.  See previous posting for Map of location. Come on down, enjoy the activities and sample the “linguine”!

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This week’s Marinated Salads

This week, my marinated Chopped Salad Club members are receiving: Julienned Kohlrabi in Mint vinegar (amazingly crunchy & refreshing and yes, full of antioxidants and fiber) Bulghur & Quinoa Tabbouleh You cannot beat tabbouleh! Fresh crisp cukes, sweet juicy tomatoes, mint & parsley, lots of lemon — heaven.  I like combining tabbouleh’s traditional grain, bulghur [...]

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