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Clean Your Plate July: Coconut Milk!

Jenny — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:51 +0000

It’s time for July’s Clean Your Plate Recipe Challenge at Nourished Kitchen! As a reminder: each month I’ll provide you with a single, nourishing ingredient and it’s your job to develop a wholesome recipe that best showcases that ingredient.

But before we get started in July, we need to finish up June! In June we showcased the natural sweetener honey (check out this post to learn more about natural sweeteners and how to use them). With a handful of wonderful entries, we had a 3-way tie! So let’s get that settled first before we delve into this month’s challenge. Honey

Molasses Cookies by A Mountain Mama (posted in the comments on the Clean Your Plate June Announcement), Homemade Granola by Kitchen Stewardship and Honey-sweetened Strawberry Preserves at Sarah’s Musings all earned enough votes for a tie. So first we need to break the tie and determine the winner. And she will earn a 22-oz jar of my favorite wildflower honey. The tie-breaking vote begins today and will end on July 7th.

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Clean Your Plate July: Coconut Milk!

So here’s the big announcement: July’s special ingredient is full-fat coconut milk. So give me your very best coconut milk recipes – those curries, those ice creams, those satays, those soups and definitely those puddings. Remember, each recipe must be wholesome so follow the guidelines below.

Clean Your Plate Recipe Challenge Guidelines

You must use real food and only real food. That is only whole food ingredients in each recipe (i.e. no refined sugar, no refined flour, no high fructose corn syrup.) In essence, if you’re great, great, great grandmother wouldn’t recognize it, don’t use it.
All ingredients should be sustainably and organically produced. Remember, we’re cleaning our plates! NO funky chemical residues around these dinner tables!
You must do your best to highlight the special ingredient to the best of your ability.
You must link to this page from your post and/or your sidebar.
You must submit your recipe to the challenge no later than midnight, mountain time on the 15th of the month. I don’t use Mr. Linky here, so submit your entry in the comments or contact me.

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Reminder: Clean Your Plate June

Jenny — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:04:49 +0000

Don’t forget! It’s the Clean Your Plate Challenge time. Please submit your best honey recipe to the Clean Your Plate Recipe Challenge hosted here at Nourished Kitchen. Entries are currently open and voting will begin on Saturday the 20th! And the winner will be announced on July 1st when we also announce July’s special ingredient. June’s winner receives a 22-oz jar of my favorite wildflower honey!

June’s challenge focuses on honey – a beautiful and natural sweetener. Want to participate? Visit the June Clean Your Plate Challenge and submit a link to your entry (or your entire entry) in the post and link back to the page. Remember the recipe must be based on whole, natural foods and it must be your own creation!

Also, if you haven’t already entered, check out this week’s giveaway: Win Your Kitchen Pick from All Modern!

In the meantime, I’m crazy busy this week – our market is getting ready to start so we’ve been planning, designing, negotiating and publicizing our hearts out. Wish us luck. If you can’t visit the market, check it out online: Crested Butte Farmers Market.

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Announcing: Clean Your Plate Recipe Challenge!

Jenny — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:22:13 +0000

I’m excited about a new project at Nourished Kitchen: a monthly recipe contest! Each month, I’ll give you a wholesome ingredient and it’s your job to develop a recipe which spotlights that special ingredient. And remember: Keep your plate CLEAN! Recipes should be wholesome, organic and comprised of real food. If your great-great-great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize it, don’t put it on your plate!

So, develop a recipe; post it on the Clean Your Plate Challenge post on June 15th and see if you can’t win this month’s prize: A 22-oz jar of Wildflower Honey!

For more information, please check out the Clean Your Plate Recipe Challenge FAQ.

June Clean Your Plate Challenge: HONEY

Our special ingredient this month is HONEY! So develop a recipe that showcases this natural, wholesome sweetener. Remember: there should be no refined foods (i.e. refined flour, sugar, corn syrup, refined soy or refined vegetable oils).
Link to the Clean Your Plate Challenge page or June post from your entry.
Add your honey recipe to the list of entries on June 15th here at Nourished Kitchen.
The voting will begin June 20th! So start sending your readers this direction so they can share the love.
June’s Clean Your Plate Recipe Challenge winner will be announced on July 1st in conjunction with the announcement of July’s challenge and special ingredient.
June’s winner will receive a 22-oz jar of Madhava Wildflower Honey!
Don’t have a blog? Enter by contacting Jenny with your recipe.

Spread the Word

The more fabulous recipes we have, the more fun it’ll be so spread the word about the clean your plate challenge! So spread the word and start working on your recipes.

Let your readers know that you CLEAN YOUR PLATE! Get your button.

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