Locavore? Let's get real, okay?

I love everything about being a locavore. That means eating food that is in season and grown within 100 miles, according to most, of where you live. Being a locavore would, in the ideal sense, mean really fresh, picked at the peak of ripeness, from Ma and Pa Farmer.

If you live in the central valley of California that might be possible. When you live in Nevada, not so much.

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One head of cabbage: cheap, healthy, tasty eats

My family loves cabbage … coleslaw mostly, in all it’s myriad forms. Tonight I made enough, I thought, of my green apple coleslaw to last a couple of days …. NOT. Natacha scarfed down whatever Mr. Maven and I didn’t eat. But the key here: cabbage is cheap. It’s a cruciferous veg that is very, very healthful. It’s versatile.

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