What’s in your salad bowl? Where do the country’s families, grocery stores, restaurants, and food services get their leafy greens in the dead of winter? And where do those warm and dry regions get their water to grow those crops? We got the answers to those questions and more last week while on a farm […]
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Basic Pesto Recipe and an Ode to Pesto
How much do we love pesto? We make it just about every week. So in that spirit, here’s an Ode to Pesto. (Remember the Ode to Hummus? This one’s similar, but with more leafy greens.) Oh pesto how I love you so; So many foods with which you go. So many ways to make you […]
Green Frosting
OK, I’ve already pushed the limits on what is acceptable in terms of green food for the month, what with the Greens, Eggs, and Ham and the Green (Rainbow Chard) Cake. But now I’ve totally gone off the rails with this Green Frosting (click for recipe), made with spinach. Yes, I’ve officially become that mom. […]
Naturally Green Foods for St. Patrick’s Day
March 17 is drawing near. What are you going to serve as naturally green foods for St. Patrick’s Day? As our favorite “green” day draws nearer, we’ve been cooking green things all week long. Green Cake First up on the list is this Green Cake, made green not by artificial food coloring, but by…rainbow chard. […]
Naturally Green Foods for St. Patrick’s Day
Green food coloring? Skip it! We want to show you how to enjoy St. Patrick’s Day with naturally green foods. You already know how we feel about cake (yum!) and about artificial food colorings (boo!), and about how we made it through Halloween without food coloring. So you can imagine how we feel as St. […]