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Green bull energy drink

Cowboys eat unhealthy stacks of flap jacks while their adversaries eat green, stay lean and get mean. There isn’t much a competition if the cowboy only has to stay on for 8 seconds. If you want to get the big bull advantage you’ll need to step your game up with one of these detox shakes [...]

Long and prosparagus

Asparagus officinalis has been cultivated and coveted by gastroristocrats since the days of Ancient Greece. Throughout history it has been prized as a difficult to grow, luxury vegetable. If you feel like flashing a little culinary bling you can razzle dazzle some guests with grilled asparagus doused in fancy-pants orange-enhanced Béarnaise. The grass doesn’t get [...]

Adorable baby Arugula

When you first hold your own little bouncing bundle of joyous baby arugula you’ll be brimming with pride. The peppery, spirited, tender young leaves will fill your heart. Enjoy baby arugula while it’s young, because before you know it the leaves will get tough, tasteless, demanding, resentful, spiteful, spoiled, hormonal… youth is wasted on the [...]

Citrus Panna Cotta with mint and almond pesto

It’s been a blast going up to Edmonton to do the progressive dinner with Homes by Avi over the past few months. At each of their brand new show homes we unveiled a different course of an awesome Mediterranean inspired meal that brought us from the deep pit of winter to the bright lights of [...]

Gwhack-A-Mole (x3)

Hard ones, soft ones, green ones, means ones. Avocados are popping up all over the place. These precocious little greenies are finicky and fun to eat. Your best hope to cope with these funky fruits is the bash out a big batch of guacamole and enjoy with nachos. But how do you deal with them [...]

Pie Fight!

Round one… linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;

Flora’s Pasta Primavera

When Flora, the ancient goddess of growing greenery, shows up this spring you know she’ll be looking vivacious. She’s spring-loaded to deliver all the greenery to life with a healthy dose of invigorating chlorophyll. When was the last time you enjoyed a dose of chlorophyll? linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel [...]

Cupid’s flaming hearts

  Cupid is far from the adorable little curly-topped chubby love-bug we know from Valentine cards. He is the love child of Venus, the goddess of love and Mars, the god of war. His singular reason for being is to fight the never-ending war on love. He knows all too well that men are from [...]

quickie pickles

This week’s mystery bluebox contained: big carrots, baby carrots, caulifower (small) , chard, cilantro, cucumber, garlic, grapefruit, lemons, mango (rock hard), red onion, pear, rhubarb (big) linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;

MBS-cauliflower a la grecque

This week’s mystery bluebox contained: big carrots, baby carrots, caulifower (small) , chard,cilantro, cucumber, garlic, grapefruit, lemons, mango (rock hard), onion, pear, rhubarb (big) linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;