Food

Are We Worth Our Salt?

11.29.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving

It’s been a busy month here at the gardenfreude household. Food month turned out largely to be takeout month because we were so busy with all of the other projects happening right now. We are excited to be back and we have some very exciting things to share with all of you. If you read [...]

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Three Words: Chocolate. Pumpkin. Loaf.

11.16.2011 Baking

As a vegan, there are a few things you learn to do without; cheese and bacon being on the top of that list. When we first took the no meat product plunge we were amazed that baked goods didn’t make the list. It’s not that we don’t miss them, it’s that we never had to [...]

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Bear

11.07.2011 Eating Out

When news hit Astoria that there would be a brand new restaurant opening nearby that would feature vegetarian/vegan options we were so excited. We immediately began researching the menu, our mouths salivating with the promise of a vegan meal we could walk to. When we found the menu the vegan options are simply listed as [...]

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Fall Pumpkin Picking

10.17.2011 Eating Out
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It is officially fall and we had one of the most seasonal weekends we could have ever imagined. This Saturday we hit the road and went out to meet Erich’s family in Suffolk County, Long Island. What better way to spend an October weekend than to soak up some sun, see your family, and pay homage [...]

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Pumpkins- from Patch to Porch

10.08.2011 Baking

The word October is practically synonymous with pumpkins- either word will evoke the images and smells we have come to associate with Autumn. The word pumpkin actually comes from the Greek pepon (πέπων), which means “large melon”and should come as no surprise to any gardener who has grown them.  Pumpkins are in the Cucurbitaceae family, which also includes [...]

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Why Everyone Should Be Eating Chia Seeds

10.06.2011 Fitness

There was a good portion of both of our lives where we could have started most stories with, “When I was drunk …” These days lots of our stories begin with “When we were raw…” Such is the case with our introduction to chia seed. When we were raw we were always thinking about where [...]

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Apples in the Big Apple

09.21.2011 Food
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If you read our post on monday you know that we have been supplementing the garden by buying local seasonal food and nothing tastes like the start of fall quite as much as apples. Erich has been talking about their triumphant return for weeks. When @UnSqGreenmarket tweeted the arrival of 15 kinds of no spray [...]

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Makie Doll Guest Spot: September Stuffed Cabbage

09.20.2011 Cooking
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We are so excited about today’s post! We did a guest post for our friend’s blog Makie Doll. The post is a delicious stuffed cabbage recipe that uses the freshest seasonal veg we could find at this weekends market. So follow us over to Makie Doll today and check back tomorrow for our feature on [...]

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Saving The Season

09.19.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving
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We hear so much information about eating local and seasonal food and until you really invest in what that means it may sound like the fashion police are coming to put your dinner on the worst dressed list in tomorrow’s rag. Here’s the deal, nature wins. You can either take advantage of things when they [...]

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Swapping Salt

09.18.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving
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We love rosemary! We planted nine plants in the garden this year because there is no such thing as too much. We also love finishing salts. Erich recently began to read about the process of creating your own herbed finishing salts. It’s actually very easy! We have been talking all season about ways that we [...]

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