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Walnut Butter

July 23, 2012 All Year

How to make homemade walnut butter with a Vitamix.

Peach Lassi with Pistachios

July 23, 2012 Gluten free

Cool, refreshing peach lassi topped flavored with rosewater and cardamom and topped with chopped pistachios.

A vegan berry crisp (or crumble) with an especially good topping made with a blend of powdered and granulated unrefined sugar. Also uses chopped walnuts, coconut oil, and either gluten-free baking mix or regular flour.

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What We Made this Week: Granola, Raspberry Oatmeal, Canary Melon Smoothie

July 12, 2012 Uncategorized

I was happy to find a very promising healthy granola recipe on Badger Girl Learns to Cook. The result was ‘amazing’ according to my husband and disappeared very rapidly. Badger Girl recounts six rounds of revisions to her evolving granola recipe before getting it just right, and I have to agree that she got there. […]

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Free-Range Chicken Flock: Humane Enough?

July 10, 2012 Health and Nutrition

Thoughts on buying eggs from a free range flock of chickens on a hobby farm. The eggs are more humanely produced than eggs from a big farm, but are they humane enough?

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Tropical Oils: Healthy? Sustainable?

July 8, 2012 Health and Nutrition

The Tropical Oils Are tropical oils good for us and the planet? Saturated fats raise cholesterol levels, and decades ago fears about the saturated fat in tropical oils led to their replacement in processed foods by hydrogenated oils. That was a nutritional disaster. Now some alternative health groups consider tropical oils healthy while mainstream […]

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Truly Free Range Eggs: Healthy, Nutritious, Anti-Inflammatory

July 2, 2012 Health and Nutrition

If you buy organic or cage-free eggs for a healthier, more ethically-produced product, take a second look at where your eggs are coming from. Ordinary US farm standards allow huge flocks of hens in impossibly small cages, while organic standards require uncaged hens fed an organic diet and given access to the outdoors. Unfortunately, many corporate-influenced […]

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Fig Mascarpone Dessert Pizza

June 30, 2012 Dessert

A dessert pizza with chopped figs, fig butter or jam, optional walnuts, and mascarpone cheese.

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Gluten-Free Pizza Dough

June 29, 2012 All Year

Tips for making a crispy pizza crust using Pamela’s Gluten-Free Bread Mix and extra virgin olive oil. How to work with the delicate gluten-free dough and keep it from breaking apart.

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