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This week’s Rolling Prairie Farmer’s Alliance distribution included a big bag of mesclun. Oh, it’s pretty stuff, all those little bright green leaves with touches of purple and red here and there. It’s grown here by the Wakarusa Valley Farm (which finally has a website; yea!). But you may wonder what to do with it.
Knowing [...]

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Can I go a day without corn? Well, sure. I did it yesterday—at least I think I did—and it wasn’t even hard. Not sure I’d want to do it for an extended period of time, however, as I’ll explain in a minute.
But first, you may wonder why I did it in the first place. Well, [...]

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Never mind what certain politicians say, broccoli is the it vegetable, as far as I’m concerned. And now, more than ever, I have science to back me up.
Scientists at the University of California-Los Angeles has published a study that suggests that broccoli restores immune function. From the UCLA press release:

[A substance in broccoli] switches on [...]

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I can’t say it any better, so I suggest you just go to the Cleaner Plate Club and read a plainspoken rant about what’s wrong with the Farm Bill.

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My sister was asking the other day about quick, easy and healthy recipes. This sister is a competent but largely uninterested cook who has a growing enthusiasm for eating healthful and and healthfully produced food.
About three months of the year, including now, she is the chief cook at her household. The current bee in her [...]

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Soup of this week: Vegetable-heavy lentil soup. It’s a warming, tasty soup to counter some of that luscious toffee.

I made this soup from memory, as I couldn’t find the recipe I had in mind. I don’t have a nutritional analysis, but I can promise nevertheless that it’s low cal and high fiber.
Lentil soup

1 cup brown [...]

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