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Letting the Vegetables Shine
Let the dinners of fresh, local, organic vegetables begin! The Forest Hills Tuv Ha’aretz CSA kicked off a couple of weeks ago, and we have been really enjoying all the early summer vegetables. When the vegetables start rolling in, it really puts the “you-don’t-have-to-do-much-to-fresh-ingredients” principle into use, ’cause it’s true! With veggies this fresh, it [...]
Posted in CSA, Macrobiotic, Recipes, Vegetarian, vegan Tagged Dinner, Healthy, Macrobiotic, Organic, Qing Dan, quinoa, Recipes, Seasonal, Sustainable, vegan, Vegetarian, weeknight dinner, whole grains 2 Comments
Pantry Polenta and Beans
There really was nothing in the kitchen. Nothing that I could cook quickly, anyway. So it was either order in (which we do every couple of weeks) or starve (perhaps I’m being dramatic here…) By the time I got home from a busy clinic day, it was 9pm, and honestly I wanted to order in. [...]
Posted in Budget, Pantry, Recipes, Vegetarian, vegan Tagged Dinner, Easy, Pantry, Recipes, vegan, weeknight dinner 9 Comments
Can Jam May: Spicy Pickled Asparagus
As some of you know, I have committed to [hot water bath] canning one seasonal ingredient per month for all 12 months of 2010 as part of The Tigress Can Jam. For the May Can Jam, we were given a choice between asparagus and rhubarb. I was STOKED to make rhubarb preserves, but since my [...]
Posted in Canning, Recipes, Vegetarian, vegan Tagged Canning, Recipes, Seasonal, the can jam, vegan, Vegetarian 8 Comments


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