http://blog.louisehagler.com Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:06:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_176" align="alignnone" width="432" caption="Roasted Asparagus ready for noshing."][/caption] The asparagus is starting to come up and I am ready. My favorite way to eat asparagus is to snap it off and eat it raw, grazing in the garden. My next favorite way it to roast it. Roasting does an excellent ... http://blog.louisehagler.com/?p=175 [caption id="attachment_171" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Cilantro Miso Pesto with dippers."][/caption] Traditional unpasteurized miso is a live, fermented food that can enhance both daily fare and special occasion dishes. Along with being a tasty treat, it contains beneficial bacteria to aid digestion and can bind with toxins in the body and carry them ... http://blog.louisehagler.com/?p=157 [caption id="attachment_152" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Soybean burritos on corn tortillas ready to roll."][/caption] Soybean burritos became a “national dish” in the early days of The Farm community in Tennessee, and continue to be a favorite for many. They are always on the "vegan experience" menu for the groups of midwifery students ... http://blog.louisehagler.com/?p=147 [caption id="attachment_138" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies with Rapadura"][/caption] During a recent chocolate chip cookie attack, I found a forgotten chunk of rapadura my brother had brought from Brazil lurking in the back of my sweetener cupboard. Rapadura is the Brazilian name for blocks of dried sugar cane juice usually ... http://blog.louisehagler.com/?p=137 [caption id="attachment_124" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Mason sampling the muffins."][/caption] These whole grain, wheat-free, sugar-free muffins are great ones to make ahead and freeze any surplus for breakfast on the go. This is another recipe that children can help with, and for small children, the mini-muffin size is a good choice. This recipe ... http://blog.louisehagler.com/?p=123 [caption id="attachment_108" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The finished Raw Torte de Chocolate with Strawberry Icing, decorated with raw pecans and double impatients."][/caption] Oooooo, this one turned out really well, both as eye candy and truly tasty. This Raw Torte de Chocolate with Strawberry Icing was an experimental cake for the combined birthday party ... http://blog.louisehagler.com/?p=104 As much as possible I like to eat either what I can grow or find locally. There occasionally comes a time in the middle of winter when I give in to the less green options, especially when the pineapples start showing up from Central America, and the oranges and pomegranates ... http://blog.louisehagler.com/?p=95 I was roasting sweet potato rounds in the oven recently when my grandson walked in sniffing the air. When I turned on the oven light and let him look through the oven window to see what was there, he exclaimed, “cookies!” Well, sort of…he certainly ate them like they were. ... http://blog.louisehagler.com/?p=81 [caption id="attachment_66" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Roasted Brussels Sprout and Cannellini Bean Soup"][/caption] After our successful roasted Brussels sprouts session I had leftovers to create with. Since it has not been above freezing here since New Years, I was drawn toward a steaming pot of soup. Cannellini beans are delicately flavored white ... http://blog.louisehagler.com/?p=63 My almost four year old vegetarian grandson Mason loves to come over and help cook just about anything. Involving children with hands on in the process of cooking makes a big difference in what they might consider eating and lets them know where their food comes from. Recently I came ... http://blog.louisehagler.com/?p=49