Green Eggs & Ham-less Soup

This week’s Ham-less vegan Super Green Split Pea soup nevertheless has a nice “meaty” flavor, due to my favorite smoked paprika and also to shredded nori (dried seaweed). Nori is packed w/ Vitamins C & A, potassium and fiber, while boasting no fat, carbs or calories.  Plenty of chopped super-food collards makes it Super Green. [...]

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You say ‘potahto’, I say ‘pohtayto’

Here’s the “After” picture promised in previous post of my vegan Wasabi Kohlrabi Herb Potato Salad (see recipe). Redolent of fresh dill, flat-leaf parsley and cilantro, the salad was a CROWD PLEASER on Sunday, as well as at a Labor Day picnic I catered the following day. People are always surprised there is NO MAYO in this creamy [...]

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Beets Beat Carrots

You may have heard that Beets are a “super-food” and it’s true. Beets are terrific sources of the antioxidant vitamins A & C, vitamin B6, folic acid, magnesium, manganese, calcium, iron, potassium, and phosphorus. What might surprise you is that Beet Greens (leaves) are even MORE nutritious than the root: 5x more calcium, 4x more Vit C, nearly 2x more iron [...]

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Kohlrabi Rhymes with Wasabi

 At the Mpls Farmers Market yesterday, Aunty Oxidant sang a duet with Plain Jane Kohlrabi about how beauty and goodness come from the inside.  [Sure, Jane is pale green and has antennae, but she contains much more antioxidant vitamins A & C and minerals than other more colorful vegetables her size. Plus, she can claim the proud heritage of the [...]

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Aunty Oxidant to the rescue

Today at Little Locavores (Mpls Farmers Market), rascally free radicals (ie, adorable kids) ganged up on a poor adult, who was feeling sick and weak. Why didn’t his body’s defenses fight them off? Because he did not eat enough vegetables or fruits, and therefore had no antioxidants to boost his immune system.  Enter stage left: [...]

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Mr Green Bean; honey cream cheese

This past Sunday, Little Locavore focused on fresh green (string) beans, with tastings of  green, yellow and purple, both raw and steamed. Volunteers helped me prep them by snipping off the stems with kids’ scissors. They mixed local honey from a market vendor with reduced fat cream cheese for taste-testing raw beans plain and with the spread. [I'd [...]

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Got yer number, cucumber

Sun’s Little Locavore was a blast!  We played true/false with some little-known facts about Cucumbers and debuted the “Walk Like An Egyptian Cucumber Baton Desert Relay”. Yes, a la Steve Martin. Thanks to Locavores Zander and Everett, Paige, Cameron, and Sienna, Mags, Emily, Josie, Brook and Brin!  After running the desert relay, they showed the audience 4 kinds [...]

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This Sunday: the versatile, super-healthful Cabbage family

Yup, focusing on Cabbage and its cruciferous clan this coming Sunday. Aunty Oxidant may visit!  Will taste Slaw made with its cousins kohlrabi, sweet napa cabbage, carrots, herbs, tossed in a healthful vinaigrette instead of mayo.  Aunty Oxidant’s Nutrition Factoid:  Cabbage it starts losing its bountiful Vitamin C, an antioxidant, as soon as you cut it. So, try [...]

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