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amaranth
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This is the first post I am composing directly in FlickR— Woot! About eight years ago I planted some red amaranth in my garden. The fully mature red amaranth plant is a showy purple red affair with a large (OK I have to say this) phallic shaped seed cluster that [...]

I know this is not a vegetarian recipe. There are those in my family who must have meat from time to time. If you eat meat, a recipe like this one is a good way to make a little meat stretch quite a way. And it has collard greens in it, [...]

One thing I like about Food Buzz is how they seamlessly integrate your self-hosted or other third party blog into your Food Buzz Blog.  I had wanted to review Magenta Restaurant for a while, and it seemed like Food Buzz was the best place to do it because they structure the data and it [...]

Kinoko no takikomi gohan
Japanese Vegan Maitake Rice
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Pictures from our local farmer’s market.  I got there a tad late, so a lot of the booths were looking kind of skimpy.  I still managed to pick up Maitake mushrooms and green snap peas and I’m so glad to see the market doing so well that the farmers don’t have much to take back [...]

Taking a break from always being food political to just share with you some flowers from my very own flower terrace.  That’s what’s left of Grandma’s sewing machine.  I like it in my garden because it reminds me of her and her big farm garden she used to have when I was little.    When [...]

This video is not short, sweet, nor hilarious, but it is highly informative. Corrine from Gourmet Love Affair put me on to this.
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Foodbuzz is the foodie network!

There are SOOOO many good food blogs!   If I listed all of them down the sidebar you’d have to scroll south for quite a while, and that’s not nice.   If you’ll notice I have my blogroll categorized, so when you click the Vegan link a page pops up with all my vegan links.  [...]