Bok Choy Smoothie $2.00
Ok, so unless it’s in a Thai Curry, I find bok choy a bit difficult to handle. I’ll do it steamed with my special sauce, but during the summer, who really wants to turn up the heat? That’s why I created this recipe for raw bok choy. I’d hate to waste any of my local, […]
Sancocho Recipe and Lesson Plan
Sancocho (Soup) y Ensalada (Salad) Let’s say good-bye to winter with this warm comforting soup, and welcome in fresh greens with an enlivening salad. Sancocho recipe inspired by the Go Green East Harlem Cookbook. Read about how it became vegan here. Vocabulary yucca – a root vegetable starch – an important element of our nutrition. […]
Sancocho!
For the last day of winter, the kids and I created a warm and delicious sancocho, a stew that I first learned about while living in Santo Domingo. The stew is rich and creamy and contains a medley of soothing starches like yucca, yautia (we used yams), plantain, and potato. There’s something truly marvelous about the soothing quality of […]
Gazpacho
Greetings Readers! Here is my weekly recipe I create based on the weekly share of fruits and veggies I get from my CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Our food comes from a local farm and is organic and fresh. At Central Brooklyn CSA, you can pay with EBT food stamps, which makes getting affordable food easy […]
Food Stamps, Clothing, Shelter, Medicine: The Dharma of Food Justice
My first retreat began with a panic attack, which lasted for a full three days as I headed towards facing the grief and shame that unbeknownst to me was waiting.
Brooklyn Farm Share Recipes 2 – Oil Freedom
Oil Freedom (How to kick the fried habit and get the benefits from plant -based oils) by rachel bolden-kramer I am a Micky D’s French fry fiend in recovery. This addiction dates back to the 80s when my family found it oh so cheap and convenient to feed us on fast food. The feeling of comfort and […]
Brooklyn Farm Share Recipes 1
CB CSA Newsletter Issue 12 2011 Here’s a short article about the abundance I found in my EBT-purchased, SNAP funded organic fruit and veggie share. Text is below. How to Eat Eight Pounds of Apples in Seven Days by rachel bolden-kramer I’m a single lady with a full fruit and veggie share. This was […]
