tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15903701386698016652012-02-04T12:37:01.515-05:00FRESH MOUTH is about one family. A dingy American diet. How we try to feed ourselves without mutiny, bankruptcy, Red Dye #40 or sounding like total locabores.Eileen and Dirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16381258339081934748noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1590370138669801665.post-63193137977048976042012-02-03T11:20:00.003-05:002012-02-03T11:37:20.728-05:002012-02-03T11:37:20.728-05:00

Mara King and Marcie Goldman preparing a vegetarian soup with tofu and miso. This week we strip it down. No dairy. No gluten. Oooo. It's hard. Last week I added greens to nearly every meal I ate. My food consumption was really high, but I never felt hungry. Only satisfied. We feasted on kale, collard greens, brussel sprouts, spinach, lettuces. We added herbal infusions and lots of water to our

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Photo from Mojo Mastery We began our Mojo Mastery Month last night in a three-hour session that included nutritional education, cooking lessons and tasting. We ate the "Spinach Gomaae" created by chef Mara King, owner of Zuke Products, and I can't tell you how good it was. I will actually fantasize about this dish. It's just spinach and the most amazing sesame sauce with freshly ground sesame

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I am doing two things this week - visiting Las Vegas for the first time and starting a cleanse. Nothing like going to the den of excess to start a dietary reboot. A medical conference with Dirk is the reason for the trip, and trying to get healthier is the impetus for the cleanse. The timing just happened to coincide. The first week of the month-long cleanse requires no food elimination, just

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Here's an inspiring movie to watch.

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Photo courtesy of cheeseslave.comI have never bought any drink by the case in my life. Well, other than beer. But today kombucha is on sale at Whole Foods for $1.99 instead of $2.99 per bottle. I bought a case of GT's Organic Raw Kombucha in the Gingerade flavor which is as mysterious to me as it may be to you. I've been craving this fermented tea made from a symbiotic colony of yeast and

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Happy New Year!Resolutions are in full swing. We are as committed to eating well as always, but we're bumping it up a notch. I started seeing a nutritionist and it's been the most insightful, useful and practical experience for my own well being and the whole fam. Here are a few of small tips that have really amped up our family nutritional profile: - Adding plant-based protein powder to Jack's

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“The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry.

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Want a quick, healthy and delicious holiday gift for friends and neighbors? I made this dark chocolate pistachio bark in five minutes, and it couldn't have been better. It's from Whole Living Magazine. Pistachios are a great antioxidant and are high in B6, thiamin and fiber. And the dark chocolate is also an antioxidant that can help lower blood pressure. Sounds good for the holidays. Ingredients

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My four-year-old making apple crumble at his preschool fall festival. I recently hand fed my four-year-old, Jack, meatballs. He only eats meat in that form. I really wanted him to get the nutritional value of the meal which I had bolstered with flax and a nice parmesan.In between his chatting and chewing, I would fork in a hefty bite. He chewed and chatted some more. I kept giving him more until,

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Snow White fell prey to a poison apple thanks to the Wicked Queen, but our kids are falling prey to poisoned apple juice thanks to the federal government. As of today, there's absolutely no federal limit for the amounts of arsenic or lead found in fruit juices. The apple juice and arsenic issue came to light this school year when Dr. Mehmet Oz, host of "The Dr. Oz Show," commissioned tests of

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Two families owned our house before we lived here. One of them is a local Ayurvedic doctor named John Douillard. He's a well known, respected practitioner in Colorado and around the U.S. He's taught natural medicine and Ayurveda for 22 years, and he's written and produced 18 health and fitness books, CDs and DVDs. I just read a quote from him in Martha Stewart's magazine Whole Living. His clinic

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I wrote a post three years ago about Aidan buying food at his school cafeteria on the sneak. His school had a contract with food giant Aramark which offers highly-processed food with little or no nutritional value and high amounts of sugar and sodium. So, instead of having the option to buy a healthy lunch of fresh foods or even eating the healthy lunch I packed, he chose to feast on chips and

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This weekend we headed to Northern Colorado to Roosevelt National Forest to hunt for the perfect Christmas tree. Every year the Forest Service opens up certain areas for people to cut their own trees to help thin out the overgrowth. We brought our snowshoes to negotiate the three feet of snow in the area. I don't think it could have felt more festive for the holidays. We worked up a wicked

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Last October I met Alice Waters at Chez Panisse. I completely dorked out with excitement, fumbling with my camera and smiling like an insane person when Dirk took our photo together. I also talked way too fast.But she was gracious and sweet. The dinner that night was incredible ... fennel frisee, soup au pistou, grilled Wolfe Ranch quail stuffed with corn and chanterelles, squash blinis and Chino

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From Buche de Noel and Twelfth Night Cakes to gingerbread and Christmas pudding, special holiday treats define the season. I love the food history dating to 18th century Europe of putting hard-to-find, out-of-season oranges in children's stockings as truly precious gifts. In the spirit of sugarplums and fruitcake, here are a few foodie items that I think are really special any time of the year,

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Food production and packaging in this country is a huge turnoff to farmers, scientists and doctors ... and it should be to us. Check out this list of seven foods deemed unfit by experts at the forefront of food safety. Prevention talked to leading foodies and this is what they say to avoid. Here's an abbreviated list. Read the article for specifics on each food item: 1. Canned TomatoesThe expert:

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This past weekend on a cold, blustery day with winds gusting at 85 miles an hour, my sister, Rose, and I took my three boys and her daughter out to lunch. We played outside together for a while, but negotiating the wind proved too much for all of us, especially those who weigh in at just over 30 pounds. Our hunger was piqued by weather so we chose The Kitchen [Next Door] as a destination. Rose

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Congress says today that pizza is a vegetable. The USDA wanted to discount the idea that a few tablespoons of tomato paste qualifies as a vegetable, but food companies balked at the change. According to Republicans of the House Appropriations Committee, the change would "prevent only burdensome and costly regulations." Corporate food lobbyists are behind the legislation. From the Associated Press

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USDA report from yesterday states that "local foods are working for the nation." Not really a surprise, but good news. In a post on the USDA blog, Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan writes: "Why is on-farm job creation for producers selling locally so much higher? It will take more analysis to understand these differences, but the take-home message is clear: helping farmers and small businesses

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Ink yourself with one of these temporary kitchen tattoos.

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Check out Boulder-based MM Local that partners with local farms and growers to pick and preserve produce at the height of the growing seasons so Coloradans can eat local all year long.

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This video by Todd Coleman at Saveur changed my kitchen life.

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Check out a Vermont farm and their goat milk caramel sauce for the upcoming holidays. It's a dulce de leche version called cajeta. You can bake into apple and pumpkin pies or pour on ice cream. Okay.

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Send your food makers - everyone from the president of Kroger to the co-CEO of Whole Foods - a message that we don't want GMO corn in our products. The scary part is that GMO foods don't need to be labeled. And the new Monsanto "product" doesn't require any approval process so there's NO public comment on the decision to put it in to the mainstream American food supply.

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Photo courtesy of Cook's Country. Vermont. Farmhouse. Industrial kitchen. Cooking nirvana. Tour this amazing 200-year-old farmhouse that's both test kitchen and TV studio for Cook's Country magazine and show. Couldn't be dreamier.

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