#7 Review – 52 Foods in 52 I love pasta, but it’s tough to find a really tasty whole grain pasta. I love brown rice pasta, but I also like trying something new. So, I purchased a box of the Ancient Harvest brand of quinoa pasta. It’s a blend of organic (non-GMO) corn and quinoa [...]
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Campo de Montalban Cheese – Review #6
#6 Review – 52 Foods in 52 Yesterday, I made a sandwich for lunch with some Campo de Montalban cheese inside one of my strangely unique wheat rye sunflower caraway rolls. I love cheese but let me tell you, this particular cheese really rocks! The flavor melded so well with the flavors of rustic wheat [...]
Keeping Produce Fresh with Ethylene Gas Removers #5
#5 Review – 52 Foods in 52 Ethylene gas (H2C=CH2) is a harmless odorless, colorless, gas that is produced from both natural and man-made sources. Vegetables and fruit release the gas as they are ripening, but at the same time, the build up of the gas can hasten the ripening of produce. Some produce produce [...]
Pomegranate Season
Since I slowly started to eat clean only last July, I’m still getting to know certain foods and when they are available in stores. The pomegranate is one fruit I am dying to try for real! I ate the seeds in the Chobani yogurt pomegranate flavor, but I want the real thing! So it looks [...]
How To Cook Everything iPhone App – Review #4
#4 Review – 52 Foods in 52 I just picked up the “How to Cook Everything” iPhone app. It’s the full version of the Mark Bittman book! It’s on sale for only $2 (down from $5) until tomorrow (Sunday – Father’s Day) http://markbittman.com/give-dad-the-htce-iapp-this-sunday UPDATED: June 22, 2010: I love this app. I’ve been using it [...]
Divine Mint Dark Chocolate – Review #3
#3 Review – 52 Foods in 52 Eating clean doesn’t mean giving up rich foods like chocolate! There are some days that I just feel like I NEED chocolate, and as long as I consume in moderation, it’s all good! And I don’t mean Snickers or Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Have you read the ingredients!? [...]
First CSA Share Vegetables Pickup
My first CSA share produce pickup! It was exciting! We got a whole mess of good good veggies. Here’s what we got (click photo for larger version) (clockwise from left) Tatsoi (back left) – similar to bok choy Romaine Lettuce – I have never seen such a huge head of lettuce. It was gorgeous Green [...]
Unripe Cantaloupe
Darn! I sliced an unripe cantaloupe. What to do with it? Well, I read online that if you sprinkle a little bit of granulated sugar on it, and allow it to sit for awhile, it’ll sweeten up some. I sprinkled some sugar on the cantaloupe slices (refrigerated) and ate them the following day for lunch. [...]
CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Starts this Week
Our local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) starts this week! So excited! It’ll be my year with a CSA and I am so looking forward to eating all the yummy veggies! What is a CSA? Basically, during the “off season” a farmer offers a specific number of produce “shares” for the following season. The consumer purchases [...]
Hamilton Beach Counter Top Convection Oven – Review
#2 Review – 52 Foods in 52 I love my Hamilton Beach counter top convection oven. It’s definitely on my top 5 favorite, most used kitchen tools! Back in 2006, my husband surprised me with the oven as a Christmas gift. It was shortly after we moved into our current home and I was rediscovering [...]
