Farmer Jones Farm News
Let’s face it. If someone were to tell us that there’s a magical food that really requires no cooking (unless you wanted to do so), is deliciously versatile, and comes with wonderful health benefits, we’d want to learn more. Well...
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You might be wondering—why are cooked carrots “counterintuitive”? Well, conventional wisdom often tells us that raw vegetables have more nutrition than cooked ones—but that’s proven NOT to be the case with the carrot. Chef Jamie Simpson of the Culinary Vegetable...
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Cabbage just doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Besides being a key ingredient dish in cuisines from around the world, this cruciferous vegetable also works brilliantly as a “blank canvas,” according to Culinary Vegetable Institute Chef Jamie Simpson. “All too...
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Tips for Cooking Peppers—and Their Health Benefits It’s pepper season! Hot peppers, sweet peppers, bell peppers, aji peppers—they’re all delicious and, at The Chef’s Garden, harvested fresh at the peak of flavor and nutrition. So, what are the best ways...
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First, not all eggplant is created equally, Chef Jamie Simpson explains. If you picture the big purple ones in a grocery store, that’s a mature plant that is therefore full of mature seeds and comes with a spongy texture....
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