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Category: Sustainability

No creature left behind

On: November 7, 2017November 7, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

For some reason today, I thought about Zlateh the Goat, a beautiful story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Of this book, including the story of Zlateh, the New York Times says, “beautiful stories for children, written by a master.” But they are not

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Simple is good…using those amazing greens — lots of them!

On: August 28, 2017September 12, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

This summer, as I did last summer, I’m working on the farm for my CSA. I receive 3/4 bushel of beautiful, organically raised veggies for my efforts each and every week of the season. When I open my box each week, it’s

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Two Models to Feed the World: IFS & Torah

On: August 26, 2017September 12, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

“Much have I learned from my teachers, more from my colleagues, but most from my students.” – Rav Hanina ( Talmud: Taanit, 7a) I finished teaching a class at McHenry County Community College this past week called “Conscious Choices: Thinking About Food.”

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Stuffed Cabbage Rolls for Dinner

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls for dinner - or anything else you can imagine. Stuffed squash. Stuffed onion. Stuffed grape leaves.
On: July 11, 2017November 25, 2021 By: Leslie Cook

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls! A beautiful and wonderfully delicious stuffed cabbage dish. Good for squash or grape leaves too.

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Eat your pesto spread on bread or saucing up a cabbage head…

On: July 4, 2017August 26, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Published in Bob’s Fresh and Local CSA Newsletter, 7/5/2017 I’m excited to know that we have garlic scapes coming through again this week along with Bok Choi, kale, cabbage and Swiss chard, all favorites among my family and friends. My son makes

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Saving The Planet: Eat Your Greens, But Don’t Forget Those Roots

On: June 19, 2017September 12, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Published in Bob’s Fresh and Local CSA Newsletter, 6/21/2017. If you are interested in sustainable agriculture, and your CSA membership says you are, you probably know that those veggies are a lot easier on the environment and our water resources than animal

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5 Ways to Use This Week’s CSA Veggies

On: June 13, 2017June 15, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Prepared for Bob’s Fresh and Local CSA. Visit them on Facebook. This week we’ll enjoy a wonderful variety of spring greens, mostly Asian and from the mustard family, including Mizuna, Tokyo Bekana, Hon Tsai Tai and Tatsoi as well as the more

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The right day to be in the fields

On: June 1, 2017August 16, 2018 By: Leslie Cook

It was Shavuot today, the Feast of Weeks. Shavuot marked the height of the barley harvest and the beginning of the wheat harvest in ancient Israel. Today is also the day I heard the first announcement that Trump decided to pull out of the

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How My CSA Box Keeps My Family Healthy

On: May 26, 2017March 26, 2018 By: Leslie Cook

After 45 years as an off-and-on vegetarian (20 of them strictly vegetarian) including 7 years of owning and operating a vegetarian cafe, I decided four years ago to explore an entirely plant-based diet. This makes Farmer Bob’s CSA “Meal Boxes” (as I like

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CSA Greens: Bok Choi & Radish Stir Fry

On: May 26, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

We will soon enjoy lots of spring greens in our boxes, and that’s great, because I LOVE greens and missed Bob’s beautiful assortment over the winter. Here’s what I do with them (other than the salad I make first thing when I

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“Our research also shows there’s a way to improve your health and footprint without giving up meat entirely,” study senior author Diego Rose said.
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What a wonderful story! I’m providing two links below, one to a National Geographic article which requires Apple Reader. At the National Geographic site, you will be locked out unless you’re a subscriber.This second link is to a different source which mentions Buettner’s recipe book: www.yahoo.com/now/secret-adding-extra-10-good-200000902.html“There is another American diet, one that could actually increase your life expectancy by up to 10 years and, in some cases, reverse disease. It’s not a fad diet invented by a South Beach doctor, a paleo diet marketer, or a social media influencer. This diet was developed by ordinary Americans, is widely affordable, is sustainable, and has a lower carbon footprint than a meat-heavy diet. Most important, it is hearty and delicious, developed over centuries by fusing flavors from the Old and New Worlds in ingenious and uniquely American ways.” ... See MoreSee Less

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Earth’s longest-lived people dwell in five ‘blue zones’—but their healthy ways of eating can be found in parts of America.
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Instant Pot! Israeli White Bean Soup - Vegetating with Leslie

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Instant Pot Israeli White Bean Soup is another of my old favorites that I reworked for my Instant Pot. Recipe makes about 1 gal. Keeps well.
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The Sixth Day of Creation - Equality of Being, Abundance for All - Vegetating with Leslie

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The sixth day of creation, God made wild beasts...cattle...all kinds of creeping things...And God said, Let us make man in our image.
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