Tag: healthy

Baked Apple Chips

Baked Apple Chips

Crisp Apple Chips for a fraction of the cost and a multiple of the flavor!

Kale Chips

Kale Chips

“KALE CHIPS!!!!!” Not a normal thing to hear preschool/elementary aged kids shout with excitement, but when you introduce and make healthy foods a normal part of life; than it’s normal in our house! Fresh Kale Bunches OR Fresh Pre-Chopped Bagged Kale work if you don’t 

Strawberry Vinegar

Strawberry Vinegar

Vinegar is the base of so many salad dressings …why waste those beautiful strawberry tops when we can use them to create a delicious base ingredient to pair with all your summer salads!

Recipe & Directions

  • Strawberry Tops (from about a quart)
  • White Vinegar (to fill a pint jar)
  • Cut the tops off your strawberries (we use approximately a quart of berries). Rinse off any dirt & gunk
  • Place Greens & any remaining red berries into a jar / bottle. Fill bottle most of the rest of way with your vinegar. Size really doesn’t matter & measurements are flexible!
  • Set in a dark place (or even your kitchen counter) for a couple of days or up to a week.
  • Strain out your berries & you are left with a pink jar of sweet vinegar!
One Day later

When infusing the vinegar with the strawberry, it really takes some of the bite away and you are left with a slightly sweet vinegar perfect as a salad dressing or anything else your heart desires.

This same method, although not tested, would probably work really well to infuse your own vodka as well!

immediately after combining
Carrot Top Hummus

Carrot Top Hummus

We all need to work together to reduce our footprint on this earth and that includes using up every bit of our foods and produce that we can (or composting and recycling what we can’t). When using up the often overlooked Carrot Tops is this 

Asian Eggplant Vegetable Salad

Asian Eggplant Vegetable Salad

There are a ton of different types of Eggplant! When this Asian Eggplant first showed up in our CSA share last year, I was a bit confused as to what to do with it (stir-fry always works – but we had just done that). A 

Watermelon Mint Ice Pops

Watermelon Mint Ice Pops

I don’t know about you, but I LOVE Ice Pops! I don’t really think that there is a kind of Ice Pop that I’ve met that I don’t like. Making Ice Pops at home is SO easy. Any flavor that you can dream up – you can make up. You can use Ice Pop Molds, get plastic sleeves for ice pops (also great for spiked-adult only Ice Pops!!), get mini-pop molds for the littlest members of your family, use silicone sleeves, or even just use paper cups or an ice cube tray with a popsicle stick!

The options when you make Ice Pops are truly endless. Continue reading Watermelon Mint Ice Pops