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As for the rind, it serves well as a crunchy component, too, whether tossed into a stir fry or pickled and plated alongside a sandwich or smoky barbecue. A pickled rind creates a great salad topper.

Left: Moko’s seedy, nutty, and chocolaty cookies; Middle: A tarte of thinly sliced apples; Right: Cured cecina for sandwiches.

Mesh or sock feeders are another means of offering nyjer seeds that are especially useful to the small clinging birds.

Amy Height‘s Cauliflower Brazil Nut Purée With Crispy Tofue is a wonderfully nutrient-rich alternative to mashed potatoes. Blended with garlic, thyme, ground pepper, and coconut oil, this purée is flavorful and comforting. Once topped with crispy, browned tofu, this dish becomes a complete meal that is sure to satisfy.

The authors also estimated that 95–99 percent of the population consumes fewer omega-3 fatty acids than are necessary for good health.

Rather than consuming whole flaxseeds, nutrition experts recommend opting for the ground form which is easier to digest and can also provide more health benefits.

Opening Half Moon Bay to commercial cannabis could change the city forever, they worry, normalizing pot for teenagers, luring outside investors with nefarious motives, and drawing federal scrutiny upon farm laborers, many of whom are undocumented Mexican workers.

Service is quietly sharp — friendly but attentive, devoid of pretension and focused more on feeling than on form where hospitality is concerned.

Red snapper ($39) with lentils and sweet grapes swam in a light, clear and blistering broth spiked with Calabrian chiles. Black cod ($39) — still on the menu, last I checked — comes with a silky purple yam puree, a minced hash of shiitake mushrooms and a luscious little quivering tangle of yuba — soybean curd — that plays like creamy little eddies of sweet, barely set egg whites.

Known to many people as the Viagra of the food variety, one of the major advantages of watermelon is that is can help relax the blood vessel without any side effect.

It has now been discovered that the pumpkin seeds, which were usually thrown away, are in fact, loaded with more nutrients than the fruit itself. Pumpkin seeds in packets are readily available in the super markets.

Two minutes later I was under her spell. I sat on a tiny plastic chair, in the rain, on the streets of Hue, and had the best meal of my life.