Raw Falafel with a Dilled Tzatziki Sauce

  Raw food, how I am growing to adore you…You are beautiful to look upon and grace my meals with vitality and health.    Raw Falafel Ingredients: 2 cups sprouted legumes [I used a combination of garbanzo beans and lentils] 1 cup freshly chopped parsley 3 cloves garlic, minced Juice and zest of ½ lemon ½ cup raw [...]

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Mu Shu Yuba with Collard Green Wrappers

  Mu Shu was always my favorite Chinese dish to order when I was a kid.  There was something special about it because you got to assemble it at the table and slather on the thick, dark and sweetly-rich hoisin sauce.  Thing is, like the machaca,  Mu Shu is traditionally loaded with animal proteins.  Since that just [...]

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VoTM: Peppered Marmalade and Collard Green Tamales

I’ve been slacking on collard green recipes lately and have had this recipe kicking around in my head for a while now.  Today it expressed itself and they turned out really well.  They’re sweet and spicy hot and would go great with some savory black beans. Filling: 1 bunch collard greens, washed, destemmed and cut [...]

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VotM: Spicy Collard, Cabbage and Papaya Slaw

I was in the mood for something spicy and needed to use up some tortillas that have been lurking in our fridge for a while now.  Our fridge is also still over-run with collard greens. Imagine that.  I went a bit overboard at the store the other day and bought a few too many bunches, heh.  To [...]

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Fettuccini in a Garbanzo Bean and Walnut Sauce with Collard Greens and Radicchio

  This was such a great way to incorporate greens into a meal on a cold Winter’s night.  H told me she’d been craving pasta and this is what I came up with for her.   Fettuccini in a Garbanzo Bean and Walnut Sauce Ingredients: 1-15 oz can Garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed 1/2 white [...]

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VotM: White Bean and Collard Green Hummus

White Bean and Collard Green Hummus 1 can white beans, drained 1 cup artichoke hearts, packed in oil 2 tbsp. sun-dried tomatoes, packed in oil 1 tbsp. capers, rinsed juice and zest of 1/2 lemon 5 collard green leaves, lightly steamed and diced toasted pine nuts Directions: Place the artichoke hearts, capers, half the sun-dried tomatoes and [...]

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VotM: Winter’s Stuffed Collards

Alrighty!   Another way to use these amazing greens:  as a pocket!  I made up a caponata of sorts with lotsa wintery goodness, let it cool and then stuffed some steamed collard leaves. Winter’s Stuffed Collards 1 cup eggplant, diced 1 cup butternut squash, diced 1/2 white onion, diced 4 cloves of garlic, minced 1/4 cup [...]

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Vegetable of the Month: Collard Greens

Greens just plain rock!  Packed full of vitamins and minerals including one of the best non-dairy sources of calcium on the planet, collards are a great way to ensure that you’re on your way toward eating healthfully.  I’ll start off with a very basic recipe for a quick dose of goodness and then over the [...]

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Soft Polenta with Cannellini Beans, Sautéed Collard Greens, and Currants

This is the meal D and I had for Christmas Day dinner. Coincidentally, it was so good and there was enough left over that we had it again tonight! I said to D, after scooping the last bit in my bowl onto my spoon, “I don’t know how anyone could not like collard greens.” Sure, [...]

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