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Archive for 'Organics'

Are GMOs Really Bad for You?

Apparently no one really knows the answer to that question. And therein lies the rub, if you ask me. When I first read Robyn O’Brien’s book, The Unhealthy Truth — which convincingly argues that eating GM foods can be linked to all kinds of health issues, including cancer and the rise of childhood allergies and autism — I immediately decided that

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Love: Strawberries (and my Favorite Strawberry Salad)

A few weeks ago I started making a list of all my favorite things to eat. I was doing this partly because I had thought of including it on the “about me” page on my new website (which is coming very soon, yay!) and partly because I love making lists, especially food-related lists. And partly because I was probably

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Breakfast of Champions

The other morning, while I was trying to coax breakfast orders out of my groggy six- and nine-year-olds, my husband said, “When I was a kid, unless it was my birthday and I got to pick out a box of cereal, my mother never once asked me what I wanted for breakfast.” Now that I think of it,

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My New Favorite Thing

I almost didn’t get a photo of these because they were devoured so quickly. After polishing off most of the pile, my nine-year old son declared, “Mom, you should make a brand and sell this, it’s so good!”

Kale is a pretty regular feature in my organic CSA box and it’s super healthy, so I’ve been experimenting with different

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Oven-Roasted Tomatoes

Around here, the season of autumn — that splendid time of year when the leaves blow around, the weather cools, and we all eat lots of roasted squash and homemade pie — is a bit of a myth. Here in Colorado, while the leaves do turn gorgeous colors and definitely blow around, the fall usually goes more like this:

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Dried Fruit

Isn’t it funny — in a not-really-that-funny-at-all sort of way — what kids will and won’t eat? Take pears for example: If I try to give my darlings a lovely fresh pear, they recoil in horror. On the other hand, if I hand them leathery dried pears (or any fruit), they devour them and come back with their hands open for more. What’s that about?

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