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July's New Menu
Casey Weaver / Jul 02, 2009
July's menu is out now. Whitney Barns, RD, takes a look at our highlighted ingredients for the month, tomatoes and fish, from a nutritional perspective and talks about why these foods are a good idea to include in your diet. It should be right about now that your backyard tomato patch
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CSA for Dinner: No Chard Shall Go Uneaten
Kara Douglass Thom / Jun 30, 2009
Through community supported agriculture and a backyard garden, how one mom helps her finicky family eat more vegetables (and love them).
This week’s share was more of the same--spinach, snap peas, strawberries--all kid-friendly and inhaled within days. So, I’ll take this opportunity to provide an update on my backyard garden, or what’s left of it. For starters, on Sunday I had to pull my swiss chard out of the garbage...
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Sonoma Coast Abalone Dive
Casey Weaver / Jun 29, 2009
California's coast north of San Francisco typically greets ocean goers with a hard, calloused front complimented by its pounding fists of wind and swell. This past weekend, when nine foot ground swell was predicted along a section of shore that can so spitefully spit in your face, the three man CC team on the hunt for Red Abalone was instead greeted by sunny, blue skies and kissed with gentle ocean breezes...
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Cook Like a Pro: Plan Ahead
Andy Ramsay / Jun 26, 2009
In this series, I’ll hope to use some of my experience in professional kitchens to give you useful tips for your domestic cooking endeavors. If I’ve learned anything working in restaurants, it’s that there is no dish the at-home cook should be afraid to attempt
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CSA for Dinner: Sweet Pea Success
Kara Douglass Thom / Jun 23, 2009
Through community supported agriculture and a backyard garden, how one mom helps her finicky family eat more vegetables (and love them).
I tell anyone signing up for a CSA not to panic at the contents during the first few weeks. The output starts slow and builds over the course of the season. A whole CSA share can run approximately $500. Over a 16 to 18 week season it works out to around $30 a week. The first weeks you definitely won’t have $30 of fresh, organic produce. If you’re looking at buying a CSA share solely in terms of cost-effectiveness you might freak out at this point. But don’t.
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