I have recently come to love the simple combination of greens with beans. If you have any kind of fresh greens on hand, you can probably make this with items you have in your kitchen, and it warms up well for lunch the next day. This recipe is adapted from Deborah Madison’s “Braised Mixed Greens [...]
Archive for March, 2010
25 Mar
Green Your Smoothie
It’s hard to get enough fruits and vegetables, especially when you’re busy…and when you don’t like them. I’ve been choking down salads when necessary, but generally avoiding anything green and leafy most of my life (with the recent exception of kale chips). I love fruit, but rarely have more than one serving a day. Enter [...]
22 Mar
Cooking your own beans: Worth the effort
Context: For most of my life, I refused to eat beans. Once, when my mother labored over her legendary bean soup for hours, I made a grilled cheese sandwich instead. The horror. These days I’m cooking dried beans rather than buying canned. Things change. It sounds intimidating, but anyone can do this…and it’s worth the [...]
16 Mar
Boston Organics Challenge
My first box from Boston Organics came today! I just signed up again after a two-year hiatus. Boston Organics delivers organic produce in addition to caring about things like local farming and the environment. While I loved the service two years ago, I simply couldn’t eat enough fruits and vegetables on my own to justify [...]
14 Mar
Quinoa with Almonds and Cranberries
Quinoa, if you’re not familiar with it, is the new trendy grain. With its full set of amino acids and torrid history of conquistadors, oppression, and sacrilege, quinoa makes for a great addition to the aisle at Whole Foods. When Spanish conquerors invaded the Andean region of South America in the 1500s, they did everything [...]
12 Mar
Buy it or grow it: Basil
Stop and Shop in Boston sells non-organic basil for $2.79 for a 2.5 ounce package. That’s not really enough to make a whole batch of pesto and won’t keep longer than a week. Seed Savers Exchange sells a packet of organic basil seeds for $2.75 and added $3.00 for shipping to Boston. You will probably [...]
12 Mar
Kale Chips Will Change Your Life
In terms of green leafy vegetables, it doesn’t get greener or leafier than kale. If you try to eat it in a salad, it tastes bitter, fibrous, and like you’re trying to eat something that wasn’t meant to be eaten. Just my personal evaluation. That said, I am now a kale convert. My friends Graham [...]
10 Mar
Just how unlikely?
In the hills of old Kentucky, we celebrate meat. I currently own at least one souvenir from the neighboring county’s Ham Days festival. Speaking of, if you haven’t had Kentucky’s specialty – country ham – you only think you know what ham should taste like. We’re famous for Kentucky Burgoo – a wild-game stew that requires at least five different kinds of meat or you aren’t trying hard enough.
