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Monday Mission: Are You Ready for Breakfasts?

September 5th, 2011 · 25 Comments · Monday Missions, Recipes

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to include more vegetables in your breakfasts. Impact Ratings: ! Level of Commitment: Making Strides This summer I challenged you to plan your breakfasts, with the goal of getting more variety, more food groups, better nutrition and less stress. Now that school has started or is imminent [...]

Recipe Connection: How to Make Crispy (Soaked) Pumpkin Seeds

October 19th, 2010 · 19 Comments · Recipes

You can make soaked, “crispy” pumpkin seeds, Nourishing Traditions style, from your Halloween jack-o-lantern pumpkin seeds. Making pumpkin seeds hardly takes a recipe, and the soaking process will decrease nutrient inhibitors and increase nutrition immensely (see my series on soaking grains for more or grab the free soaked recipe eBook HERE). Other Halloween posts: Decorating [...]

In-Season Recipe Connection: Easy, Healthy Pumpkin Cookies

October 15th, 2010 · 48 Comments · Recipes, Super Foods

Want to get a super food like pumpkin into your family? Put it in cookies! My husband, who doesn’t even like pumpkin, loves these healthy pumpkin cookies. The whole wheat version of the recipe hardly tastes different than the unhealthy pumpkin cookie recipe I started out with, and they remain quite easy to make. It’s [...]

Organic Gardening Series: Preserving Produce by Freezing

July 15th, 2010 · 16 Comments · Organic Gardening

What can I freeze? It’s a common question as gardens begin to be ready for harvest and Farmer’s Markets tempt people with bushel baskets full of gorgeous fruits and vegetables. One of my early posts here at KS was when I granted myself the title of “freezer queen”: 10 Easy Prep Foods I Always Have [...]

Recipe Connection: One-Bowl Pumpkin Bread/Muffins

October 13th, 2009 · 108 Comments · Recipes, Upgraded Nutrition

Pumpkin has got to be one of my favorite fall flavors, especially in a healthy whole wheat bread or muffin. Add a generous dose of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and I’m in love. You can’t find an easier pumpkin muffin recipe than this one, and – a bonus! – it can be made super healthy, [...]

Kitchen Tip: Leftover Pumpkin System

October 13th, 2009 · 36 Comments · Avoiding Waste

We’ve all been there: a recipe only calls for a portion of a can of something, maybe pumpkin or tomato paste, and the remainder gets put into a container, tossed in the fridge, and promptly forgotten until it’s green and fuzzy and you’re pretty sure you know what food it started out as. I hate [...]

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Recipe Connection: Katie’s Simple Cabbage Soup with Secret Super Food

June 23rd, 2009 · 62 Comments · Do It Yourself, Frugality, Recipes, Super Foods, What to Buy

Do you know the thrill of creating a recipe from scratch? I can’t tell you how tickled I get when I manage something like this (it’s happened only a handful of times in my life). I think it’s pretty cool already that I have become bold enough in the kitchen to mess with other people’s [...]