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Waste Not, Want Not

Picking up baskets from Bountiful Baskets pretty much guarantees that you will be doing loads of chopping and prepping of all sorts of produce. After all of your chopping, peeling and trimming you will accumulate mountains of scraps. Rather than filling up your trash can with the scraps, there are […]

A Novice’s Guide to Canning

I love all the amazing produce that I get each week from Bountiful Baskets.  As a site coordinator, I see those big beautiful add-on boxes of fresh fruit and veggies and I WANT them.  But I’ve hesitated to contribute for them because I was worried about waste.  The obvious solution […]

A Food for the Gods

Think back over the basket contents of the last few months and ask yourself which item would be worthy enough to be used as currency in ancient Egypt and carried on golden platters as an offering to the Greek Gods. Many tantalizing and exotic fruits including pomegranates, mangoes, perhaps even […]

Cuckoo For CoCoNut (Oil that is)

The last two months have brought about great changes in my kitchen. We have recently discovered that many of my 7-year-old’s chronic pain issues are due to numerous, severe allergies- both food and environmental. I was already committed to having a “non-processed” pantry and she was already gluten-free so I […]

Taking The Fear Out of Roasting Peppers

In the last few weeks we have received lots of Hatch chile peppers in our baskets as well as the 25 lb. case add on. There have also been red and green bell peppers for those who contributed for the fajita pack add on.  The question I have heard over […]

Curried

Just east of the dazzling Las Vegas strip is one of hubby’s and my favorite date spots. It’s one of those tiny, quiet, unassuming little places located in the middle of a neighborhood that has me clutch my pocketbook and cling to my honey’s arm just a little tighter (in […]