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Help Us Help Oklahoma

We have the privilege of helping families get healthy, nutritious food each week. Every time we hear of a natural disaster we want to find a way to help the victims get access to food and water. Today’s tornadoes in Oklahoma are some of the worst our country has seen […]

Benefits of Raw Food

How many times have you picked up your basket and immediately thought “What should I cook with all of this?”.  Eating it raw is often a secondary thought.  We eat a lot of raw produce in my house as snacks but sometimes even I miss the easiest way to handle […]

Potato-Leek NOT soup

  I love, love, love potatoes.  No really- hubby vs. a beautiful, loaded, baked potato I honestly don’t know which would win my affections.  (rest assured kids vs. potato?  I would of course choose the kids). The potato is so versatile- it can be the star of the show or […]

Homemade extracts and copy-cat Milano cookies

Last year when I contributed for the Tropical Pack for the first time, I was so excited! Vanilla beans! It would be my first experience with them. Once I got them, I was a little bewildered… Vanilla beans are fun and exotic, but WHAT ON EARTH would I do with […]

Juice-Free Juicing!

Don’t pass the word along to Sally and Tanya but I am not a big fan of juicing. I feel a bit of a sugar spike if I drink too much fruit juice, and green juices generally just taste like grass to me (and as I am not of the […]

Stir Fry

Friday night is refrigerator clean out time, getting ready for my goodies from Bountiful Baskets.  What can I make with all the odds and ends? Stir Fry! Heat up some oil in a large skillet and add in some small pieces of meat, seafood or scrambles eggs, veggies and even […]