Coconut Chia Seed Pudding Serving Size: Serves 4 Ingredients 1 1/2 cups coconut milk (I used organic canned coconut milk from Native Forest. The can isn’t lined with BPA and it’s a nice thick milk) 4 tablespoons maple syrup or honey (or substitute with a few drops of stevia) 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon… Read More Coconut Chia Seed Pudding
Ingredients: 2 cups Trader Joe’s Greek Honey Yogurt 1/2 cup large frozen strawberries Popsicle sticks 12 (5 oz.) Dixie cups Directions: Slice several of the frozen strawberries lengthwise to create little heart shaped pieces. Place one of the heart shaped pieces in the bottom of each Dixie cup. Puree the remaining frozen strawberries, and stir… Read More Valentine Yogurt Pops
Homemade Pretzels with Salt or Cinnamon Here’s something fun to try in the kitchen with the little ones during these short winter days as you are up for getting down a dirty with dough. The kids can practice shaping letters or numbers, or have fun making shapes of their choice. Ingredients (makes 18-20 pretzels) 1… Read More Homemade Pretzels
What do you do with all the avocados? What’s better than Cooking Stoned? How about these Tropical Avocado Popsicle. Ingredients 2 Avocados 2 Limes 1 ½ Cups basic simple syrup ¾ Cup Coconut Milk 20 fresh tarragon leaves For detailed recipe and pictures, check out Cooking Stoned.
Here’s a great little recipe from our own Co-op Member, Susan O’Brien. I am a cole slaw lover. It reminds me of when I was a youngster and my dad made us homemade cole slaw. I have changed the recipe many times over the years, but what remains the same are the memories of eating… Read More Suzi’s Vegetable Slaw
Easy Salsa Recipe Ingredients: 1/2 lb fresh tomatillos, husked 1/2 packed cilantro leaves 1 tbs fresh lime juice 1 tsp kosher salt 2 cloves garlic 2 serrano chiles, stemmed 2 ripe avocados, pitted, peeled 1/2 a small white onion Instructions: Boil tomatillos, onions & garlic until fork tender and strain. Purée all ingrediants in a… Read More Guaca-tillo Recipe
If you visited us at the Coop this past Tuesday for the 1st Farmers market of the new year, you may have been wittness to the GIANT BEETS! Don’t be intimidated by their size, for they are awesome when in used in pickling or this recipe: Raw Rainbow Salad Makes 2 to 4 servings Ingredients… Read More More Recipe Ideas Featuring this weeks FM Ingredients!
You can find the “green smoothie recipes” on an old blog post. Here go a few more to use up produce you buy at our coop market: Delicious Baked Apples contributed by Susan Obrien *If you baste these while they are baking, with their own juices, they are delightful* 6 lg Apples, carefully cored but otherwise… Read More SCoop Cookin’ for week of 1/8
12 oz canned whole peeled tomatoes = about 2 cups or 1lb fresh blanched tomatoes Food prep goes a long way even if you do it just the night before or morning of use. I was doing some meal planning and prepping for this recipe called Chana Palak Masala, and it called for a… Read More Blanched Tomatoes
Tired of eating salad to get your greens in? Check out these green smoothie recipes. As a direct result of our Farmer Market Wednesdays, we have shifted into drinking more green smoothies to use up our fresh, local and organic chard, collards and kale! Thank you Farmer Market Wednesdays for the shift and boost in… Read More Green Smoothie Recipe a la Farmer Market Wednesdays
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