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Frankenstein Italian Vegetable Pasta Crockpot Soup Recipe

Frankenstein Soup Cooked By Shawna Coronado

Today it is a cold and rainy summer’s day and I have a miserable cold/flu thing that’s slapped me down hard like a professional wrestler. The only thing I can concentrate on is the next cup of hot tea and the repeating thought that I feel like death. What I need is a good soup [...]

Garden Friends: Carolyn Binder of Cowlick Cottage Farm

Carolyn Binders Fountain

Because so many gardeners I know are doing  inspirational gardening I wanted to introduce you to them. In 2013 I am continuing my series all about garden friends who are interesting, amazing, and have fascinating garden stories. Here’s my friend Carolyn Binder – Cowlick Cottage Farm is one of my favorite blogs ever. Filled with [...]

Best Guacamole Recipe Ever!

Guacamole A La Michael

When I flew out to Denver, Colorado this winter to speak at TEDx, I stayed at Dafna (See photo with me) and Michael Jenet’s home. They are both close friends, amazing people, and together run the Journey Institute which is a non-profit organization bent on helping people make a difference in the world. Please go [...]

What Is The Difference Between Organic, Heirloom, Hybrid, and GMO?

Heidi Heinsen Goodin questions

Sometimes the massive amount of labeling and non-GMO-labeling and plants and seeds and EVERYTHING in the green shopping market is one giant hot mess. Some mad scientist has opened up a can o’ whoopass on us throwing in a drama cocktail which has all the subtlety of a reality tv show like Hell’s Kitchen combined [...]

Which Organic Chicken Broth Tastes Best?

Chicken Broth Review

Discovery: Foodies are broth crazy. It’s true – after I published the beef broth review I was surprised at the number of requests from readers for a chicken broth review. Use broth instead of water in soups, while cooking rice, or as a delightful way to add flavor to mashed potatoes. My favorite way to [...]

Coleus Mixed With Thai Basil = Garden Love

Coleus and Thai Basil

Spend time in your garden trying creative new combinations in new planting spots. You might be very surprised at what works together. For example, above you see a random coleus I found leftover in an old planting 6-pack mixed in with Thai Basil from Bonnie Plants. All planted in full shade. Isn’t it glorious? Not [...]

8 Cup Giddyup — Yucatan-Style Beef Vegetable Soup Recipe

Beef vegetable soup in bowl

Nothing better to get your giddyup on then a bowl of creatively delicious soup for a cold winter’s day. Using some of my favorite flavors from the Yucatan, 1 lb of beef stew meat ($5), 8 cups of random vegetables ($4.50), and some beef broth ($3), I have created a culinary masterpiece of Mexican flavored [...]

Get Healthy in 2013 With Fresh Veggies and SELF Magazine’s #13for13 Healthy Hangout Tip Event

Broccoli tomato cucumber cilantro salad

New Years Resolutions are being touted all over this interweb thing. You know, unrealistic ones like, “I’m going to make a million dollars this year AND lose 100 pounds AND get a new life.” The real secret to succeeding with a New Years Resolution is to start small and make it a habit. Losing weight, [...]

Avocado Salad Recipe and A Cool New Avocado Slicer

Avocado Slicer

Avocados. They are either the most delicious treat from heaven or the spawn from hell because I would eat an entire avocado every day of the year if I could. I love them, drool over them, and crave them. Yep. I have the avocado addiction BAD and there is no cure. Each avocado provides 20 [...]

Post Holiday Comfort Food Pot Roast with Garlic and Cauliflower

Roast with Garlic Cauliflower

You survived the holidays – whew!  Whether you had to endure preparing a meal for 42 distant relatives or perhaps reined in drunk Aunt Betty’s attempts at hula-hooping, you are a superstar. And you are DONE. Now it is time for some serious comfort food which is high in deliciousness but low on the fat [...]