16 GARBANZO GAZETTE A JANUARY FEBRUARY New website design Come visit our new and improved web site and watch for new features throughout the year. www.wholefoods.coop The Back 40 Eating Well at Home… Even in the Bleak Midwinter by Jahn Hibbs, Assistant Produce Manager h, the holidays. All of that Tryptophan is a biochemical precursor available for my partner and my celebration with family and to serotonin, a neurotransmitter that seven-year-old son. I don’t want friends helps ease the helps regulate mood, aggression, to miss a moment. I’m not part transition to winter, and the sleep, sexuality and other factors that of what one of our local farmers Arich foods that so often feature in our contribute to and enhance our general calls the “eat your way to eternal celebrations can be good for preparing sense of well-being. life” set, and I like my food our bodies for the coming cold as well. Sounds good, you say. But what is seasoned with salt, not Still, I always welcome the lighter fare one to do with that array of colorful sanctimony. But I also know that January brings. kale, much less mustard greens? And that cooking good food brings Judging from customer questions I wait just one minute — escarole me pleasure. When that good am not the only one craving definitely does not sound like a food is packed with nutrients to something fresh and new. But what is vegetable for the culinary faint-of- keep me healthy and I trust that fresh & new heart. No it was grown with care for in January? A worries. Check consumers and the land, it can common out our new only help. I feel fortunate to question we recipe station work in a place filled with Try chard for a colorful and nutritious hear is located at the knowledgeable people — meal. “what’s in back of the coworkers and customers alike season?” produce — who share that enthusiasm. For more information about seasonal Presuming department. So if the Roast of Christmas Past is produce or cooking with greens: you don’t Many of you haunting you, I hope you’ll stop in at http://www.nutritiouslygourmet.com/html/ mean have told us how your Co-op for some new ideas. Check produce.html snowballs, we you like the out some new recipes in the produce www.leafy-greens.org look west to recipes scattered department. Browse through the Prescription for Nutritional Healing, by California throughout the greens displays. Ask questions and Phyllis Balch. (Reference copy as well as where much store that share your thoughts. We really do copies for sale available in the HBC section) of our nation’s If you don’t feel like cooking your greens, our feature lesser- enjoy talking with you. GG produce Deli has dishes you can try and buy. known (especially ingredients or organic produce) comes from this present fresh ideas for items on sale. time of year. What’s in season there Now we have a number of recipe are leafy greens and citrus fruits. I pamphlets on topics like cooking with Garlic Braised Kale with Sun-Dried Tomatoes love eating with the changing seasons. greens. Our own crock-pot master The variety of fresh citrus comes just Michael Karsh even put together two Try the rich blue-green Lacinato or Tuscan kale variety in this recipe. It as we need the little boost of vitamin pamphlets, one with recipes for Slow- keeps its color better than regular green kale. You can also vary the recipe C for cold & flu season. Did you know Cooker meals and one for using a using turnip, beet or collard greens and adding a little crumbled bacon or that leafy greens are also an important pressure-cooker, to help you get a red pepper flakes. part of our winter defense? They also jump on virtually stress-free 4 T extra-virgin Olive Oil provide immune system support and dinnertimes. Okay, now I know I’m 10 cloves Garlic, smashed & peeled are great for combating symptoms of getting dangerously close to using my 4 T finely chopped oil-packed sun-dried Tomatoes, well drained Seasonal Affective Disorder, also info-mercial voice, but please do come 1 bunch of Kale, stems removed & cut into 1-inch ribbons known as winter depression, that hit check it out. My favorite part is that 1 tsp salt many of us during these long weeks of there is a bulletin board for you to Freshly ground Black Pepper short daylight. Leafy greens — kale, post your comments, questions, chard, mustard, beet greens, collards, favorite recipes and success stories. 1 c Vegetable Broth or low-sodium Chicken Broth escarole & spinach, to name a few — Did you make a kale with white bean 1 t balsamic Vinegar boast an impressive nutritional profile soup that was a hit with your 1 oz crumbled Goat Cheese (optional) that includes a range of B vitamins, as neighbor’s finicky eight-year old? Have Heat the oil in a Dutch oven or 4-qt soup pot over medium heat. Add the well as vitamins K, A, & C; minerals we got a thumbtack for you! garlic and sauté until starting to brown (about 2–3 minutes.) Add the sun- like calcium, folate, magnesium and My Resolution dried tomatoes and stir to combine. Add the kale, tossing to coat it well iron; and antioxidants such as beta- with the seasoned oil. Season with salt and continue stirring until all the carotene and lutein that help protect Last year was filled with a number of challenges for me personally, and I kale is wilted. Add the stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a gentle the body from disease. Surprisingly, simmer, then cover and cook until the kale has softened (about 8 min- some also contain tryptophan, an often felt distracted. Now with a new baby due any day, one of my utes.) Uncover and turn the heat to high to boil away the remaining liq- essential amino acid to which the “feel uid, stirring often until the pan is almost dry. Remove from heat. Season good” effect of Thanksgiving turkey is resolutions is to do my best to take care of myself and be emotionally with the balsamic vinegar & fresh pepper, to taste. Transfer to a serving most notoriously attributed. dish and garnish with crumbled goat cheese, if desired. PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE DULUTH, MINNESOTA JAN/FEB 2008 PAID DULUTH, MN PERMIT NO. 492 GARBANZO GAZETTE 610 East 4th Street Duluth MN 55805 Address Service Requested Psychotherapy that honors the whole person Residential and community based A architecture that is unique, energy In this issue New Classes 9 Fresh efficient and conservation minded Gourmet to Go 2 Savor the Season 5 Perspectives 13 Board Report 10 Seeds of Justice 3 New Products 6 Management Wagner Zaun New Members 11 Report 14 Frank S. 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I like do! middle age more than I can recall in salt and pepper, sage and rosemary. this dish with a savory roasted pork I vow to walk extra long 10–20 past years. Seems like carbs were the Add 1/4 stick butter and top with chop. It is also beautiful stuffed in an minutes, three times a day. Take a hike fuel of youth. I have some quick apple or squash as an accompaniment in the snow and always down to the protein fixes that I turn to satisfying or main dish. Lakewalk along the rocky shore in front the need for protein. As a carnivore, I Then there is chocolate for my of my house. bless each animal I consume. If I were sanity and good health. All qualities I also vow to look up at the sky and to re-incarnate as a chicken I would that are necessary for all around me and be forever grateful be fine with that. maintaining the Happy attitude that I am healthy and able. Be aware Cheese would be my next Big Deli News! necessary during these dark and feel blessed how valuable every- choice as well as nuts and seeds. times of the year. I prefer the one and every critter matters in my Whether in the form of a nutty Fridays Pizza-To-Go best you can get. Whether life! spread or tahini dip, I thrive munching on a 70% cacoa Those are my Resolutions and well on this as sustenance. Of Coming Soon… bar or imbibing one of the Sustenance needs! How about You? course, lots of beans and some Fog City Deli’s delectable GG tofu round out the diet for me.