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This Is Amazing! I love chèvre (the french word for goat cheese) and use it in salads, dressings, on pizza, crumbled with beets (see this recipe for our beet and goat cheese salad), scrambled with eggs… Well, you get the idea. I love to spread it on crackers, too, but it’s usually kind of crumbly. Rejoice […]

Organic is Important I recently heard a report about how many people are cynical about the word organic–they feel that it is just an excuse to charge more for essentially the same thing. They are skeptical that “organic”even means anything, or that the farmers claiming that their products are organic are lying.  And there is

And Some Like Them Hot! You know I love me some roasted sweet potatoes.  (English teacher mother is rolling in her grave right now.) Anyway.  I had some fun goofing off in the kitchen today with a couple of nice firm sweet potatoes, an avocado,  spices….  Well, let’s just get to it! Roasted Sweet Potato

Supporting Children and Families at Risk Recently Lassen’s was once again part of the wonderful Casa Pacifica Wine, Food & Brew Festival.  Our team set up a display of crackers, cheeses, iced herbal tea, on-the-tap kombucha, and more.  Supporters of Casa Pacifica could taste as much as they would like, and our team had a

Forty-Four Years and Going Strong! Look!  Lassen’s was big on samples even way back in the beginning! After working at a local Health Food store, Oda Lassen thought she cold do a better job so she decided–in her fifties!–to open her own.  It was 1971 in the small town of Camarillo, California.  Her husband, Hilmar,

I Made Bonbons.  And Ate Them. Coconut covered in dark chocolate were my bonbons today.  Simple.  Beautiful. Tasty. And fairly healthy, since I made them myself.  Small indulgences like this sometimes are all it takes to make a blah day better! This recipe makes about 12 coconut bites. You’ll Need: 2 cups unsweetened finely shredded

Roasted Cabbage Comes Through! Today was one of those days…  Too much to do and too little time.  But I didn’t want to just snack for lunch.  (I always pay for that later–I just don’t feel good!)  So I took about five minutes to prep this lunch, and it roasted while I cleaned the kitchen.

Homemade Hummus If you haven’t discovered the ease and fun of making your own hummus, today’s post is for you! Basic Hummus You’ll Need: One 15-oz can of organic garbanzo beans, drained, but reserve the liquid.  You can also cook your own beans (cover with 2-3 inches of water, soak overnight, then cook about 90

Meet Chakra! Chakra has been culturing and fermenting foods, and teaching people about fermenting, for many years.  She loved to make kefir from raw goat’s milk, and then she heard about kefir water.  Made without dairy, it caught her interest, and she gave it a try.  In 2008 she made her first flavor in her

Greens are Not Just for Salad! Written by Gayle I am not a fan of bitter greens.  I think I have particularly acute taste buds, so I usually pick them out of my salads in restaurants.  But I do like the nutritional profile of greens, even the bitter ones.  Kale, collards, chard, dandelion–all are high