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Steamed Veggies

Ingredients Any soft-ish green vegetable: asparagus, broccoli, snow peas, edamame, spinach, chopped bell peppers, zucchini or string beans. This recipe works pretty much for any soft vegetable, except hard root vegetables like carrots and potatoes (try baking those instead), tomatoes, eggplants, mushrooms, smelly lilacs like onions and garlic and big things like pumpkins. It’s best […]

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Scraps Broth

I keep a large ziplock of veggie scraps and bones in my freezer at all times. Once the ziplock is full, I make this broth. It’s a great way to save some organics from the landfill and stretch a rotisserie chicken further. If an animal died for this, I better get every morsel of nutrition out of it.

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Building Blocks

Easy Tomato Sauce

As basic as it gets. But don’t let the simplicity fool you. It’s seriously delicious!

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Building Blocks

(Meat)balls

Ingredients It makes about 20 meatballs 1 pound ground turkey, chicken, beef or beef/pork mix. 2 slices of dry bread or 1/2 cup breadcrumbs or panko crumbs 1 egg 1 onion, finely chopped 1-2 garlic cloves, minced 1/2 teaspoon salt Pepper to taste Flour, for rolling Oil, for cooking (optional) 1/2 cup dehydrated soy crumbs […]