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Green Cooking

Homemade Organic Soft Gingerbread Cookies

December 17, 2011

I previously posted a gingerbread cookie recipe here at GAGF. However, over the years, I’ve realized that the more I make this specific recipe the less I like it. First of all I think the recipe above lacks enough molasses and I wasn’t getting the spices perfect. Secondly, while it can turn out softer, chewier cookies, if you [...]

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Have an Organic Holiday – Homemade Organic Apple Pie

November 15, 2011

Homemade organic pumpkin pie is the typical pie fare at a green Thanksgiving dinner, but a really good organic apple pie can substitute in for more pie choices or stand alone as the official Thanksgiving pie. Choosing Your Organic Apples You may have heard that some apples are better than others for apple pie. In my experience this is true to [...]

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Have an Organic Thanksgiving – Homemade Organic Pumpkin Pie

November 13, 2011

Homemade organic pumpkin pie goes hand-in-hand with a green Thanksgiving, but it’s also great at other times of the year. Not only is pumpkin pie yummy, but organic pumpkins are super-packed with vitamin A, potassium, beta-carotene, vitamin C, folate, calcium and more. Choosing Your Organic Pumpkin I’m not very keen on making my own pumpkin [...]

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Homemade Organic Butter Pie Crust

November 12, 2011

Have you read Homemade Organic Pie Crusts 101? If not you may want to do that, before looking at the tutorial below. There’s also a recipe for organic shortening pie crust dough you may want to check out. I made the butter crust below for an organic apple pie. Here’s what you’ll need to gather: Organic Butter Pie Crust [...]

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Homemade Organic Shortening Pie Crust

November 12, 2011

Have you read Homemade Organic Pie Crusts 101? If not you may want to do that, before looking at the tutorial below. I made the shortening based pie crust below for a pumpkin pie. Here’s what you’ll need to gather: Organic Pie Crust Dough Ingredients *Makes enough dough for a double crust pie or two [...]

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Homemade Organic Pie Crusts 101

November 11, 2011

You can go straight to the pie crust tutorials linked below, but if you’re new to pie crusts, I suggest reading this entire post first. Homemade Organic Shortening Pie Crust Homemade Organic Butter Pie Crust I can cook well-enough, but I won’t win an innovation cook award anytime soon or all of a sudden learn [...]

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Organic pumpkin cupcakes with colored sugar glaze for Halloween

October 27, 2011

I’ve made pumpkin muffins before, but I’ve never been able to find a decent pumpkin cupcake recipe. Usually pumpkin cupcakes end up more like muffins – a bit stiffer and a little more heavy. But a decent cupcake should be lighter and fluffier in my opinion – more of a treat vs. a breakfast muffin. [...]

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Easy Autumn Recipe: Homemade Organic Applesauce

September 26, 2011

During Autumn, organic apples are at their peek, fresh and delicious. Plus apples are healthy, packed with fiber (if you eat the peel) and vitamin C. You really need to go organic with apples though. Apples topped the Dirty Dozen list this year, meaning, conventional apples are packed with pesticide residue. Ick. Below is a [...]

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Scare up some healthy organic Halloween treats

September 24, 2011

I think some super sweet Halloween treats are perfectly justifiable. However, it is nice to have some healthy options on hand as well. This first Halloween treat is an icy Halloween smoothie that I found a long time ago in Fitness Magazine. It wasn’t organic, but you can change ANY recipe to make it organic, [...]

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Homemade Organic Cran-Strawberry Roll-Ups

September 20, 2011

Kids love fruit roll-ups and fruit snacks, yup, even mine. However, do you know what’s in fruit roll-ups? Betty Crocker Strawberry Fruit Roll-ups contain the following: Pears From Concentrate, Corn Syrup, Dried Corn Syrup, Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Acetylated Mono and Diglycerides, Pectin, Malic Acid, Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), Natural [...]