Shiitake Mushroom-Miso Soup

Serves 6 Preparation Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 20 minutes Nutrition All-Star: Miso is a fermented soy product, rich in beneficial enzymes. The good qualities are destroyed by heat, so it is added at the end of cooking and should…

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Mayan Squash and Adzuki Bean Saute

Serves 4 to 6 MEAL IN MINUTES! Preparation Time 10 minutes Cooking Time 10 minutes Mayan squash is a variety of summer squash and looks like a mini green pumpkin.  It is super-tasty but if you can’t find it you…

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Easy Sauteed Chard with Tomato and Avocado

  Serves 4-6 Preparation Time: 15 mins Cooking Time: 15 mins Mark, the produce manager at New Leaf gave me a taste of a Reed Avocado the other day and my knees practically buckled!  In season now, they are the…

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Have You Lost That Yum-Yum Feeling?!

A while back, my sister and I were talking about food (one of my favorite topics!) and she said, ‘I stopped eating it (I don’t remember what it was) I because it didn’t give me that yum-yum feeling.’ Of course,…

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Let them eat cake!

You can have your healthy cake and eat it, too… This week has been a really busy one for me and when I get stressed, I crave sweet bready things (like coffee cake- yum!). So, instead of ignoring that craving…

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