Nutrition Confusion?

This article is written by our guest blogger Beth Bruck-Upton, MA, RD.  She is the Director of Nutrition Affairs for the American Dairy Association/Dairy Council of Nebraska.

Anytime I am at a gathering where I am meeting new people, the question always comes up “What do you do for a living?” Naturally I respond that I [...]

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Let’s Preserve

Check out the following Step-By-Step Pictorial videos on using the pressure canner and boiling water bath canner. Hopefully for first timers, you will find it useful and not intimidating. For those who are veterans, I hope that you will find a couple of new items that will make your produce that much safer for you and [...]

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Invest in One Good Cookbook

I’m embarrassed to admit that I own enough cookbooks to fill up four bookshelves.  While some have sat on my shelf for years collecting dust, Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything gets pulled out over and over again.  It’s the book I turn to when I want to make something but don’t quite know how or [...]

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Vegetable Sushi Rolls

Venturing to try sushi wasn’t easy for me at first. You could say I was a tad bit hesitant about trying a food associated with raw meat. If I wasn’t feeling enough pressure already, on one of my first visits to my future in-laws’ home, we dined on sushi rolls (thankfully with fully cooked meat), bulgogi (a [...]

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