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Quinoa Greek Salad
Quinoa is the ‘it’ grain and certainly has been the …
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In case you’ve been living in Pleasantville, Quinoa (pronounced Keen-Wa) is a high protein grain from South America. I predict more and more of it in North American cuisine as people gradually begin to catch [...]

At this writing one of my daughters is dating a very nice young man who happens to be a vegan and who also happens to love baking. He shared this recipe with us when he was here visiting. Everyone in our household, vegan or not, enjoyed this yummy dessert!
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Here is an easy and tasty way to use those zucchinis that are piling up around August and September.
The video is courtesy of manjulaskitchen.com The modification I made to the recipe was to make it vegan by substituting Promise for the butter.

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This cartoon comes from Natural News and if you go there there are tons more where this one came from. It is used with permission under the professional courtesy guidelines posted on the site. Read the author’s original commentary.
This is sort of how I think when I walk down the aisles [...]

Parsley Dog Breath Cookies
These are meant to cure doggie bad breath. Forget those …
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My dog is a sweet heart so I decided to make her some home made treats, and maybe cut down a little on her doggie halitosis.

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My mystery raw foods friend X and I (see Raw Foods Extravaganza) entered the Ten Rivers Food Web Local Cookoff on 5 October, 2008. We used a slightly modified version of the previously published fennel beet carrot slaw recipe.

The carrots and beets came from my back yard.
The fennel came from the Spring Hill [...]

Last spring I posted about delicious and nutritious salad built from young red amaranth leaves. Well now I have tons of showy red fully mature plants loaded with tiny shiny black seeds. And I will give seeds to anyone free for the asking. If you want some, post a [...]

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My neighbor’s plum tree just gave me a gift. For dried plums firm-fleshed fruits with a stone that dislodges easily work the best. They are sometimes called prunes, even though to me “prune” implies a plum that has been dried. Find the “seam” [...]

If you have hard core carnivores among you, divide the fajitas up and put the mushrooms in one half and the chicken on the other half then everybody’s happy. Or if it’s just one hard core carnivore, throw a little canned chicken in theirs, microwave the plate for 30 seconds and they’ll never know [...]

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