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Side Dishes

Find inspiration for preparing simple, flavorful side dishes with fresh vegetables.

Among these you'll find many fermented vegetables recipes as well as learn the back-to-basics of cooking vegetables simply to bring out their best flavor and texture. Recipes such as Beets and their Greens, Fermented Cranberries, and even some unusual healthy side dishes you may not have tried before like Burdock Root.

Fermented Green Tomatoes: preserving the harvest

Green tomatoes are an inevitable part of homegrown tomato plants, as there always seem to be some that haven’t quite ripened before it gets too cold. While you can pick them green and bring them inside to ripen, sometimes there are so many green ones it makes sense to utilize them as they are. Of…

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CSA Box Veggies: What to do With Cabbage

Well, hello there! Here we are in the middle of the growing season, and it’s time for a second round of how to prepare your CSA box (or farmer’s market) veggies! In the first round we talked about how to cook beets and their greens, and today we’re going to talk about what to do…

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How to Cook Beets and Beet Greens

Beets are not always a well loved vegetable, but when prepared correctly they are delicious! Beets with their greens are two for one deal as they can both be used. I’ll show you how to cook beets and beet greens with a recipe for roasted beets and sauteed beet greens! Beets: Two Vegetables in One…

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