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Get Your Omega-3’s Conscientiously

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Fried smelts with Old Bay seasoningIf you make some adjustments to your mindset, you can get all of those essential fatty acids from fish that everyone recommends you eat, while still eating responsibly. You don’t have to buy up farmed and over-fished seafood in order to get the nutrients you need. There are alternatives to salmon, which can be either farmed offshore in pollution-heavy processes, or are in some cases wild-caught in overextended fisheries. That’s not to say that all salmon is problematic – US farms that use tank methods rather than offshore ocean pens are better, and certain wild fisheries are sustainably managed. However, if you’re buying sustainably caught/raised salmon, it should be fairly expensive. Here’s a way to get those same dietary benefits much cheaper, and guilt-free. The key is eating lower on the aquatic food chain.

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Banana-Cinnamon Breakfast Smoothie

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Here’s a really tasty way to use up over-ripe bananas and have a quick and low-fat breakfast on the go.  Dunno about you, but we always seems to have the last banana or two of a bunch go over-ripe, so instead of tossing them, I’ve been peeling and freezing them, keeping them  in the freezer until needed.

Ingredients:

1 frozen banana , cut into chunks
½ cup nonfat vanilla yogurt
1 cup soy milk or lowfat milk
Ground Cinnamon

Blend banana, milk, and yogurt until smooth.  Add a healthy pinch of ground cinnamon and blend again to combine.  Pour into glass and top with a sprinkle of cinnamon.

Substitutions:

  • Replace vanilla yogurt with plain yogurt + 4 teaspoons honey
  • Replace half the frozen banana with frozen berries
  • Replace half the banana with frozen mango puree

Enjoy!

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Theresa’s Decadent Chocolate Cookies

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Click below for an awesome chocolate cookie recipe. I searched and couldn’t find a recipe for really rich and decedent chocolate cookies, so I developed this one. The texture has the best of both worlds – cookies and brownies. Enjoy!

The second page includes a chart of scoop/disher sizes. Ice cream scoops come in many sizes for a variety of applications. Who knew? Alton Brown recommends using a #20 disher to scoop his cookie dough onto the cookie sheets. I researched what that meant and gathered the info to share with you all.

Theresa’s Decadent Chocolate Cookies

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Colorful Carrots

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

I bought these colorful carrots at the Farmers Market few weeks ago.  I served them with cheese ravioli.
The second photo shows them cut up so you can see the color was different on the inside.

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Farmers Market Shopping List

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Catonsville Farmers Market – what I got there this past Wednesday:

free range ground beef (no hormones or antibiotics),  smoked rainbow trout, smoked hummus, Colby Longhorn cheese, cranberry-walnut bread and spelt bread, delicious, juicy, summer peaches, a large amount of golden apples and a crap-load of veggies.  I got some red okra and lots of peppers in all shades or green, yellow and red.  I got some cute little garlic and little onions.  I got several kinds of lettuce, yellow wax beans.  I even got a new cedar air freshener for the car.

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Smashed Chickpea Salad

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

At 7pm, I still didn’t know what I was going to make for dinner.  Fortunately, I had stocked up on canned chickpeas a couple of weeks ago.  Also, fortunately, I went to the Catonsville Farmers Market yesterday.

I Google-d “chick pea salad” and found a great recipe over at Smitten Kitchen.  I had all of the ingredients in the house.  Unfortunately, for the second time in a row, the dog ate the whole grain farmers market bread, so I had to scrounge crusts from the store bought.

I served the chick pea salad on the toasted crusts and over fresh local lettuce, garnished with diced fresh, local bright red and yellow peppers and more black olives.  It was very tasty and DH was still hungry afterwards.  We finished up by eating local cranberry-walnut bread and some fresh, delicious summer peaches.

You can find the recipe and photos here:

Smitten Kitchen’s “Smashed Chickpea Salad”

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