Fennel in CSA

One of my favorite ingredients. Fennel. With sungold tomatoes, green beans, blue cheese.

Comfort Soup!

One of our families favorite soups is the parsnip/potato/apple soup. We use all organic ingredients. Served with steamed kale. Nutritionally packed! Potatoes are PACKED with nutrition. Minerals, choline (brain food), Parsnips add an interesting flavor, Folate, minerals, healthy carbs. Apples add natural sweetness, vitamins and fiber. Butter and cream. Butter has lots of Omega 6, vitamin A, and unlike margarine is one ingredient, low process, non hydrogenated. Cream is wholesome fat! It's full of fatty acids. It has protein. And it makes things taste good in a natural way. To serve it, we steam some kale, spinach is also good in it too. Putting the soup in the bowl, then placing the greens in it. These really round the soup out, adding vitamins A, C and E, antioxidants, and minerals.

I use the chicken stock that I make from the last whole chicken I've made. This is such a nutritious addition to this soup. I simmer the potatoes, parsnips and apples in the broth with on onion. then puree it up with a little butter and cream. Takes about 40 minutes from cutting to pureeing and done.

Makes 12 cups of soup plus the kale. Which is about 6-8 servings. About $1.25 per serving. Mmm. Get a baguette to seal the deal will add another $0.30 per serving.

Sweet Potatoes

These yummy steamed sweet potatoes are about to become baby food for ms Nora. Vitamin A and E and antioxidants. Add a little real sea salt for trace minerals. Yum! $2 for 40oz! took 20 minutes.

Burger and fries

We had turkey burgers tonight with potato wedges. For four. Organic
meat. Organic potatoes. Took a prep time of 10 minutes, 30 minutes cooking, total of 40 min. $7.00

Snack

Organic Smoothie.
Yogurt. Frozen berries. Bee pollen. Whey protien.

Same price as a Snickers!

4 ingredients

Whole chicken (free range, hormone free, minimal processed) $9.00 ($5.99 on Tuesdays at Whole Foods)
Kale (organic) $2.50
Butternut squash (organic) $2.50
Brown rice (organic) $1.00

For 4-6 people.
$2.50-$3.75

Cheaper than a happy meal.

Kombucha

Started our first batch of Komucha on January 1. Happy New Year! Our family has been drinking kombucha for a few years now, ever since it became more accessible. GT's is yummy, but at $3.95 for a bottle, we wanted to be able to drink more instead of be frugal about something that makes us feel good! We love the benefits. And everyone in the family loves it. It's our soda. I actually have learned to prefer it as a energizer to a coffee drink.

Henry and I took a class at the MN Traditional Foods Warehouse where we are members. Barb Bredesen teaches these classes at coops too. She's awesome. We got to try about 8 different flavors or her brew. She practices writing on the jars that she brews her kombucha in. Like Dr. Emoto's work influencing the molecular structure of water by human vibrational energy, with thoughts, words, ideas and music. So we chose a couple of words to put on our jars. LOVE and PEACE.

Can't wait to try our first batch.