Blog Archives / April 2010

Spring greens are here again!  After the long winter, a variety of tender, flavorful greens are visiting my salad bowl.  My favorite types are baby mustard greens mixed with mellow and sweet lettuces.  Happy Day! Many people ask us how to incorporate more greens into their diet and into the diet of the their children.  One way is to pair the vibrant flavor of the green to a yummy fat like quality butter from grass-fed animals, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, avocado, or...even bacon (no nitrites, please).  Everyone loves fat. The combo is a perfect balance and coincidentally quite nutritious. Here...


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Click here for detailed instructions and the science of yogurt-making, from a bio and chem professor in Ohio. He also has fresh and aged cheesemaking, buttermilk, and butter instructions.  A wonderful, very precise resource! Yogurt Basics: Making your own yogurt is simple, doesn't take much active work, can save you money, and tastes great! Chelsea and I are members of an amazing organic, grass-fed raw dairy in Colorado and we like to make our yogurt raw too. But by no means do you have to, instructions are below for using raw or pasteurized milk.  A thermometer is helpful for this, but not necessary. 1)...


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I don't have a garlic press.  Now, I want one.  But this wasn't always the case... For the longest time I have been against the garlic press.  My purist attitude stood firmly in the belief that it's fussy, excess gadgetry and frankly, it's cheating...I will mince my own garlic, thank you very much. Well, ahem, I've changed my mind.  One day in the kitchen of one of my personal chef clients I found myself short on time and needing to mince a large amount of garlic for an Indian dish.  Something registered in my mind that nudged me to open the gadget draw and use the garlic press that I'd seen...


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