Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Growing Goodies on October 13, 2010
Sunflower sprouts are delicious, nutty, and full of flavor – you can sauté them with soy sauce and toasted sesame oil, put them fresh in salad, or put them in a sandwich. You can make butter out of the seeds, eat them roasted and salted, or turn them into bird food. According to the National [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Growing Goodies, Health, Recipes on October 11, 2010
Last season, I was tired of kale. Tired of sautéing leaves, tired of putting green stalks in soup, tired of the dense chewiness, tired of hearing how good it is for me (high in flavonoids, blah blah). So, come late last October, I choked down the rest of the leaves, relieved to be finished with [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Growing Goodies, Health on September 12, 2010
Last winter I received Mary Bell’s Food Drying with an Attitude: A Fun and Fabulous Guide to Creating Snacks, Meals, and Crafts – and I put it aside because I did not have a dehydrator. Like last year, I started this season with drying tomatoes in my oven, but the tomatoes take two full days [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Growing Goodies on December 8, 2009
If you google “sprouts enzymes” you receive nearly 2.5 million hits that talk about the rich world of the sprout. If you visit or live in the raw food, juicing, cleansing, detoxifying world of nutrition you will quickly be told about the benefits of sprouts. For example, “a sprouted Mung Bean has a carbohydrate content [...]
