Experience Nutrition: Feed Phoenix with Local First Arizona & the City of Phoenix
I am excited to share the incredible Feed Phoenix project with Local First Arizona as part of the City of Phoenix COVID-19 Emergency Food Assistance Funding. The project is designed to provide nutritious lunches incorporating locally grown produce to organizations in...
Experience Nutrition: How to Stock a Healthy Plant-Based Kitchen
To eat well, cook simple meals, and be healthy it is important to stock your kitchen with a few basic food staples, along with fresh veggies and fruit. The plant-based shopping list is inspired by the anti-inflammatory way of eating, the Mediterranean Diet, and the...
Experience Nutrition: Farm-to-Table Lemon Cucumber Tomato Tower Salad
Eat What Grows! A simple way to think about eating locally and eating with the season, is to eat what your local farmers are growing, or what’s growing in your garden. What Grows Together Goes Together A simple way to think about how to create a dish with your local...
Experience Nutrition: Arizona Summer Lemon Cucumber Salad
During the summer our local Arizona farmers and many across the USA are growing lots of hydrating veggies, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, and all kinds of melons. Click to see the Top 10 Hydrating Foods As always, thanks so much to our local Arizona farmers for growing...
Experience Nutrition: Tomatoes 3 Ways: Salsa. Pasta Tomato Saute. Dehydrated.
It’s tomato season in Arizona! And I love it. Over the years I've noticed that at the beginning of the season, our farmers are growing a few handfuls, then a few pounds, then a few hundred pounds of tomatoes each week. It’s actually quite amazing that our local...
Experience Nutrition: Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market Summer Salads
Thanks so much to the Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market for the opportunity to share a few beautiful summer salads with our local Arizona farmers early summer produce. Having shopped the market for 15 years and leading cooking demos at the market for 4 years, I am...
Experience Nutrition: 2 New Hummus Recipes: Walnut Orange. Sunflower Seed Lemon.
Create your own hummus! Once you’ve made your own home-made hummus the first time, you’ll be inspired to make it all the time. The basic ingredients for hummus are beans, nuts or seeds, citrus, and salt. The typical ingredients are garbanzo beans, tahini (sesame seed...
Experience Nutrition: The Farm at South Mountain CSA Recipe: Summer Peach Apricot Salsa
What an honor to intuitively create recipes with the beautiful produce grown by hard-working, passionate farmer Billy Anthony at the Soil & Seed Garden at The Farm at South Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona. This is the final CSA recipe of the season, Recipe #54, and...
Experience Nutrition: Farm-to-Table Beet Burger
Thanks so much to the Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market for requesting a recipe for a “Beet Burger.” I honestly love your market all these years and our beautiful entrepreneurial community at the market. Thank you so much for all the hard work, dedication, and...
Experience Nutrition: The Farm at South Mountain CSA Recipe: Arizona Spring Roasted Roots & Fruit
As always, it is my honor to create recipes with the produce grown for the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) by passionate farmer Billy Anthony at the Soil & Seed Garden, at The Farm at South Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona. It is especially touching this week,...