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Black-eyed pea salad
Some people don't like black-eyed peas because of their …
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There are plenty of fresh local peppers and onions and even still a few tomatoes left around here this time of year.  This is a high protein salad with plenty of raw goodness and it’s vegan if you [...]

While running today I found two more rather dilapidated shaggymanes (see my earlier posting on this) and a whole bunch of what I believe to be nice young lycoperdon pyriforme or wolf-fart puffballs.    They smell good, though not so good as the shaggymanes.  These guys are definitely on the way to [...]

The original recipe of this (from our local newspaper) said you should add the cumin and chiles after cooking the split peas, but I think serranos taste better when they are cooked, more good chile flavor and less throat choking picante. I also was trained to always saute cumin or any of the [...]

Thank you to frugalwench, who gave me the idea to try this! As with all my posts that have a keyingredient recipe embedded, sometimes keyingredient gets confused if more than one recipe from their site is on the same web page. So click the title to see the individual post and that usually [...]

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Shiitake mushrooms are loaded with chitosan, a natural component that is said to attract fat and cause it not to be turned into blubber on your thighs, hips or middle. They also have a lot of antioxidants. Plus they are delicious.

We have adapted this recipe from Christina Pirello’s macrobiotic cookbook. Don’t let [...]

This gorgeous raw salad popped up in my feed reader today. Having just inherited a fridge full of beets, and having just purchased fennel at the farmers’ market, I viewed it as a message from above that I had to make it. I hated to cut the lacey greenery off the fennel bulbs, [...]

We have this early translucent apple tree. It should have been all done by now but everything was late this year. It was productive this season, thanks to some expert pruning, and what’s more, the coddling moths aren’t too bad this year. So I’m trying to keep my front yard picked up. [...]