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Healthy Recipes

Healthy Cooking Thursday! Plantain Chips

March 11, 2010

Here at Green Mountain, we get a lot of questions on how to use unfamiliar produce that ladies have noticed in the grocery store.  It’s a great idea to explore unknown territory in the produce section, as you might just find something that was previously unknown to you is quite delicious, and it’s always good to [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Faux Sugar on Snow

February 25, 2010

I’m not sure who the genius was who first decided to take some delicious heated maple syrup and pour it on new fallen snow, but whoever it was, I would kiss them today if I could.  This wonderful cold weather tradition is almost enough to make a person wish for snow.  When the hot maple [...]

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Healthy Recipe Thursday! Kale “Chips”

February 18, 2010

Kale is one of those vegetables that most people either love or despise…except when prepared in this manner, one of Green Mountain at Fox Run’s most popular side dishes. 
When raw, kale is as beautiful to look at as it is good for you to eat.  It grows extremely well in cold climates like our Green Mountains, [...]

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Variety, It’s Good Stuff

February 17, 2010

If you can, think back over the past week and try to list all the different grains you ate.  I’ll wait……… 
What did you come up with?  Could you count them all on one hand?  Would it be the same for other food groups like fruits & vegetables?  Granted variety in our food choices is affected [...]

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Healthy Recipe Thursday! Fruity Snowballs

February 11, 2010

Poor prunes.  They always seem to be the butt of a joke.
In all seriousness, if raisins are nature’s candy, prunes are nature’s truffle.  At their best, they are tender, sweet, and heavenly, as well as good sources for calcium, Vitamin A, and, oh yeah…fiber.  Speaking of truffles, this week’s recipe for Fruity Snowballs is reminiscent [...]

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Healthy Recipe Thursday! A Happy, Mindful Kitchen

February 4, 2010

For this week’s recipe, I wanted to step away from the food itself and take a good look at my workshop.  (As a carpenter’s daughter, I often catch myself referring to my cooking as “building” a dish, so the analogy is carrying over to my kitchen as well.  But I digress.)  Here on A Weight [...]

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Healthy Recipe Thursday! Hearty (and gluten free!) Chicken Stew

January 28, 2010

The Italians have a saying which I adore, “Sette cose fa la zupa”.   It means that soup does these seven things:  relieves your hunger, quenches your thirst, fills your stomach, cleans your teeth, makes you sleep, helps you digest, and colors your cheeks.   Other than the cleaning of teeth, which I’ll leave to my toothbrush [...]

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Healthy Recipe Thursday! Middle of Winter Quick Berry Tart

January 21, 2010

Last Monday, a heavy, wet snow was falling here in the Green Mountains.  Not surprising for our neck of the woods, but man oh man, I was not having it.  We’re reaching that stir crazy part of January when most Vermonters really start to miss sunshine on their shoulders.  John Denver, you were right, it [...]

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Healthy Recipe Thursday! Roast Chicken Soup with Wild Rice & Dried Cherries

January 14, 2010

Dried tart cherries are wildly nutritious (even though they’re not wild) and they add so much great taste to foods.  Today’s recipe is courtesy of the cherry growers who generously took me on a tour of their orchards last summer and treated me to a couple of great days in northern Michigan.  It’s a warm [...]

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Healthy Recipe Thursday! Simple Salad Dressing

January 7, 2010

I learned this salad dressing from my French boyfriend years ago.  It’s stood the test of time and family.  All of us still love it after almost 30 years.  Try one of the variations over cooked whole grains and/or beans.  Such a simple, healthy way to jazz up simple, healthy food.  And who needs bottled [...]

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