TIP OF THE DAY: Brown Rice Pudding Recipe For Breakfast

Yesterday we popped into our local Le Pain Quotidien to meet a colleague for coffee. On the breakfast menu was brown rice pudding, topped with mixed nuts and raisins. We love rice pudding, so of course, we ordered it: our first “breakfast” rice pudding. It had much less sugar than dessert rice pudding, and, though…
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FOOD FUN: Berry Croissants

Berry croissants: a yummy idea. Photo courtesy Castello Cheese.   For Sunday brunch or afternoon tea*, here’s a fun alternative to a chocolate croissant that provides another reason to enjoy seasonal berries. RECIPE: BERRY CROISSANTS Ingredients Croissants Berries: blackberries, raspberries, strawberries or a mix Mascarpone, fresh chèvre (goat cheese—look especially for the honey chèvre at…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Organic Stoneground Flakes

We first learned of Back To The Roots, an environmentally-focused start-up founded in Oakland, California by two Berkeley grads, when they sent us a Mushroom Farm two years ago. It’s a kit to grow mushrooms indoors that utilizes recycled coffee grounds. The company has since created Water Garden, a device that sits over a fish…
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