RECIPE: Quinoa Grain Bowl For Breakfast, Brunch & Lunch

[1] A new approach to breakfast: egg with grain and veggie (photo and recipe © Good Eggs | San Francisco). [2] Quinoa fried rice topped with an egg (photo © P.F. Chang’s).   The quinoa bowl recipe is below, but first:     A BRIEF BACKGROUND ON BREAKFAST TRADITIONS There’s a yummy recipe for a…
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RECIPE: Happy Salad For Sad Weather

Pick up these bright ingredients and make a happy salad. Photo courtesy Evolution Fresh.   Weather: Cold. Sky: Gray. Snowstorm: Heading this way. Cheer: This bright, happy salad.   We saw the photo and recipe on Evolution Fresh’s Pinterest page, where it was featured as a summer recipe. But all of the ingredients are just…
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FOOD 101: The First Cultivated Crops, The History Of Agriculture

[1] Emmer wheat, one of the eight founder crops (photo © Sortengarten). [2] Figs were the first fruit to be cultivated (photos #2 and #3 © Melissa’s Produce).   All of the plant-based food we eat first grew wild. When man transitioned from packs of nomadic hunter-gatherers to settled villages of farmers, they learned to…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Granola Bars

[1] No-bake chocolate chip granola bars from Fearless Homemaker. Here’s the recipe (photo © Fearless Homemaker). [2] Cherry, chocolate and cashew granola bars from Love And Zest. Here’s the recipe (photo © Love And Zest). [3] Use Old Fashioned Oats, not quick oats, for granola bar recipes (photo © Quaker Oats).   It’s National Granola…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Almond Milk

Homemade almond milk. Photo courtesy Juice Queen.   Here’s a fun project for the weekend: homemade almond milk. All you need are almonds, water, cheesecloth and a jar. Almond milk is a dairy-free milk alternative, favored by the lactose-intolerant, vegans, raw foodists and as a kosher (pareve) milk alternative. Others simply like the creaminess and…
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