Sweet and sassy Cassis Cassis (French for Currants) is a dazzling vision of beauty when she’s sparkling at a poncy party decked out with clusters of opalescent white pearls, luminescent red rubies and deep black jewels. She is refined and sophisticated in the form of a jelly or syrup in a creamy dessert or a [...]
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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 [...]
rad hot, hot-rod radishes
There’s a fiery bunch of nostril-flaring demons cruisin’ into town for the summer. They come in all shapes and sizes from white-hot icicles to deceptively burnsome watermelon colours. The one thing these radical roots all have in common is their ability to melt your face with their peppery bite. Behind their firey front, there’s some [...]
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 [...]
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!
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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 [...]
les beans et les wieners
Beans, beans, like a piece of fine art, the more you eat, the more you… get a wider appreciation for finer things. The more you broaden your palate, the better you feel, so let’s have beans for every meal. These beans are as at home on the range as they are in a fancy-pants restaurant. [...]
Gold Medals
If you have been holding out for the International Olympic Committee to answer your petition to make Couch Surfing an official sport, there’s still a chance! Don’t give up your training until the last gold medal is awarded. Keep the dream alive with a round of thick cut potato gold medals with bright lemony mayonnaise. [...]
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