Learn how to cook summer squash with sweet onions and daylilies for a colorful, elegant side dish that costs only pennies. Use your artistic sense to choose daylilies and squash with colors that complement or contrast. See How to Eat Daylilies for details on cooking safely with these beautiful, delicious flowers and other recipes. Summer Squash […]
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Fresh Corn and Black-Bean Salad with Optional Daylilies
A big bowl of this sunny salad makes a perfect summer meal. Fresh corn gives it sweetness and snap, while the bright lemon dressing ties the flavors together. Serve it while the beans and corn are still warm for maximum contrast or keep it in the fridge to dish out when it’s too hot to […]
Kraut-Chi or How to Make Vegan Probiotics
Here’s how to make vegan probiotics at home in jars. No milk, starter, fancy equipment, or special skills needed. Sandor Katz, the king of fermentation, calls this easy, tangy slaw “kraut-chi” because English doesn’t have a word for fermented vegetables, unlike German (sauerkraut) and Korean (kim-chi). I eat a spoonful or two of fermented food nearly […]
Spring Salad
The best ingredients lead to the simplest, tastiest meals. Day by day, it’s easier to answer the “what’s for dinner” question with real food as close to its natural state as possible. This spring salad, for example, relies on ultra-fresh salad mix, sweet carrots, and pungent green onions all grown locally by Kelly Morrison of […]
Easiest Cinnamon Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Make a crowd-pleasing bowl of fluffy mashed sweet potatoes in 15 minutes with just 6 ingredients, mostly spices. This recipe calls for baking the sweet potatoes, which means no boiling and no peeling. They bake up so sweet that you won’t need to add butter or sugar, saving money and calories. They are so good […]
