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What’s Fresh? Romanesco! Roma-whatsa? Romanesco’s chartreuse color and fractal shape makes it almost alien looking. But this crunchy veggie has a mild, delicate, and nutty flavor. It’s also loaded with vitamins C and K, plus dietary fiber. As a member of the Brassica family, romanesco is a relative of broccoli and cauliflower. Speaking of those […]
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Eating healthy can be fun with phone apps and websites that make it so. Apps can help take the guess work out of cooking and websites can help you learn more about how to make amazing meals, all while having a blast.
Kitchen Stories’ beautiful interface helps you find delicious recipes with step-by-step preparation instructions and entertaining how-to videos. This app automatically generates shopping lists, too. Free
Did you forget to buy milk? Or is your friend allergic to gluten? Substitutions offers over 1200 replacement ingredient suggestions. It can be an adventure to use something a little different in place of your usual ingredients, too. $2.99
The Food Network in the Kitchen app is one of the top-rated recipe apps and for good reason. Watch clips from your favorite Food Network shows, recipes from your favorite hosts (over 50,000 recipes and counting!), and lots of cooking inspiration. $1.99
How can you tell if an avocado is perfectly ripe? If it is ripe, what should you do with it? Perfect Produce gives you the secrets so you can pick perfectly ripe fruits and vegetables every time you shop. You’ll also get storage tips, preparation hints, nutritional information, and recipes.
You’ll eat it when you see it. Just like the dating app Tinder, Tender matches you with potential meals. Swipe right if you like what you see or left if you don’t. You can make your own cookbook and share recipes with friends.
Curious about what that pasta dish at the local Italian place looks like? Foodspotting allows users to upload photos of food they’ve eaten and then others can check them out.
It’s easy to feel detached from the way modern food is produced. Cooking Up a Story aims to change that by bringing you the stories of the folks who make your food.
This community blog site focuses on food preservation and other related topics like micro-farming and foraging. Users can share tips, tricks, recipes, and stories. Fun to read and fun to participate!
If you love gourmet foods, The Nibble is for you. The website reviews the best specialty foods (like beverages, condiments, and snacks) and offers tips and recipes for getting the most out of them.
It’s serious, but it’s also seriously fun. Serious Eats dives deep into the science of food, exploring how to cook the best way, the truth behind food myths, and more.
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What’s Fresh? Beans! Pole and bush beans are still going strong. You’ll find them loaded with vitamin K, along with decent amounts of vitamin B2, protein, and other nutrients. This week we have haricot verts and rattlesnake beans fromHungry Hill Farm in Washburn, Wisconsin and green snap and yellow snap beans from Hermit Creek Farm
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The French and Germans, who first met the tomato in the 16th century, dubbed it “the apple of love,” and “the apple of paradise.” Our less-romantic name for the fruit dates back further, though, to the Aztecs, who called it “xitomati,” or “plump thing with a navel.” Both in Europe and America, it took a
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What’s Fresh? Tomatoes! Tomato season is upon us and we are loaded up with a large selection of fresh, local, and organic varieties. We have cherry tomatoes from Great Oak Farm in Mason, Wisconsin, Bay Produce in Superior, Wisconsin,Hungry Hill Farm in Washburn, Wisconsin, and Hermit Creek Farm in Highbridge, Wisconsin. There are also slicer
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What’s Fresh? Cherry Tomatoes! Cherry tomatoes are loaded with antioxidants, including cancer-fighting lycopene. They also help with heart health by lowering overall cholesterol levels. Pints of cherry tomatoes from Great Oak Farm in Mason, Wisconsin are here this week. Honey-Roasted Cherry Tomatoes Cherry Tomato Salad with Buttermilk-Basil Dressing Easy Cherry Tomato Pasta Sauce Baked Chicken with Cherry Tomatoes
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Simple Summer Salads – Local Style! Salads offer a quick and easy option for summer nights when it’s too hot to cook or you just want to spend more of your time outside enjoying yourself rather than laboring over getting a meal prepped. Lettuce, tomato, carrots, and some dressing makes it easy. But you don’t
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What’s Fresh? Basil! Basil is loaded with vitamin K, a key nutrient for both blood clotting and bone health. Traditionally, herbalists used basil to soothe cuts and bug bites. Today, it’s often used as a digestive aid. Lovely basil from Hermit Creek Farm in Highbridge, Wisconsin is in stock this week. Grilled Vegetable Antipasto Zucchini Latkes with Parmesan,
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Pack the Perfect Picnic A checklist for eating in the great outdoors! When summertime lures you into dining al fresco, it helps to have a plan. Whether you’re heading to the beach or out to a local park this checklist will help you pack the perfect picnic. ✓ Food – Safety first! Plan to keep
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What’s Fresh? Radishes! Radishes, those tangy red roots, are loaded with antioxidants like sulforaphane, which helps inhibit cancer cell growth. They also contain high amounts of vitamin C, B6, thiamin, along with minerals including iron, magnesium, copper, and calcium. Add this to the fact that radishes only have about 20 calories per cup, and there’s
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