in keeping with my last dinner, i once again reached for my vitamix and was once again astounded. this dish is a variation on one that i found in a raw food book called ‘living on live foods’ by alissa cohen. for the salad i use finely chopped napa cabbage, torn spinach leaves, green onions, [...]

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call this what you will. because it IS very different, i know. but i call it a very simple and raw dressing/sauce that will knock you out with it’s flavor. 5 ingredients, 5 minutes and you’re close to done. it recently helped cement my feelings for my 10 year old vita mix. at 46 years [...]

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blogging is time consuming. not only are you busy documenting what you’re up to, there are all these other great blogs to discover. so while browsing through the masses i came across this pasta dish. what i found interesting was that the same thing had happened to that blogger. she too had come across this [...]

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saturday i hit our small local farmers market. i bought a big broiler processed locally. they were out of parts and pieces and so upon defrosting, i proceeded to get very personal with this bird. it’s not my preference to split open an animal even if it’s already been gutted, cracking its bones and then [...]

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it all started on a cool april day in the tiny umbrian hillside town of Cività di Bagnoregio… we went into a local little restaurant and they grilled some chewy holey bread over the open hearth, rubbed it generously with garlic and then topped it with chopped tomatoes, salt and pepper.and this is exactly what [...]

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i joined two csa’s this year. that stands for community sustained agriculture. you buy a share in a local farm and pick up the bounty each week at a drop off point. so saturday’s and monday’s are my days and by tuesday i am treading water amidst a sea of greens… juicing, sauteeing, making salads [...]

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