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Versatile Grain and Veggie Salad Recipe

It’s Greenmarket Grains Week! We are so fortunate to live in an area where we can get a wide variety of local grains and flours. We rarely buy this stuff at the store anymore, but if we do, we stick to the bulk section and King Arthur Flour (relatively local and employee-owned).

This salad will make you love grains and dark, leafy greens. I wish I were eating it right now for breakfast.

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Produce Profile: Sunchokes

Sunchokes are our new obsession. They’re sweet and crispy raw and roast up nicely. Erik eats one or two almost every day in his lunchtime salad.

Background: Sunchokes, a.k.a. Jerusalem artichokes, are the roots of a species of sunflower. They were discovered by the western world in 1605 by Samuel Champlain, a French explorer, who initially compared the taste to an artichoke. I’m not sure why though…I don’t taste it. The “Jerusalem” piece of . . . → Read More: Produce Profile: Sunchokes

Preview Post: Cranberry Hot Pepper Jelly

Cran-banero jally in the jar, and on a bagel…

About two weeks ago, seasonal, local cranberries made their first appearance. Apparently, cranberries have a relatively short season, so we bought a bunch. Last weekend, Lindsay decided to try out a recipe for a sweet and spicy jelly. Except for the sugar, all the ingredients were from the greenmarket:

Cranberries 1 Habanero Pepper 1 JalapeƱo Pepper Apple scraps and cores (which we have been saving . . . → Read More: Preview Post: Cranberry Hot Pepper Jelly

Market Day!

Today was an early day at the Union Square Greenmarket. Lindsay had an event for work, so I was shopping alone today. On my first pass through for browsing I got a few pictures, but once I started buying my hands were too full to take any more!

Red carrots

Rainbow beets

Fresh horseradish

Mixed color fingerling roasting potatoes

For Andy from The Office: Broccoli Raab

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How to Make Your Own Granola from Scratch (and 100% Natural)

This is part two of our three-part “Do-it-Yourself” (“D-I-Y”) series on breakfast:

Part 1 is how to make your own yogurt Part 3 will be how to make your own cold-brew coffee. This post is on how to make your own Granola

I’ve always been keen on breakfast. I love cereal. I used to eat a bowl of Kashi’s Autumn Wheat cereal every morning. It is a relatively healthy option as far as packaged . . . → Read More: How to Make Your Own Granola from Scratch (and 100% Natural)