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Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.


Buy Local Food : Bringing more local produce into your kitchen may leave you wondering what to do with unusual things such as Jerusalem artichokes, kohlrabi or mizuna. “I get requests all the time from CSAs asking permission to put my recipes into their delivery boxes,” Madison says. “I always say yes.” Get a good produce-based cookbook and don’t be reluctant to ask for recipe ideas from growers.


Kitchen Tip : Use a covered kettle or pan to boil water; it's faster and it uses less energy.














Chicken with Peppercorn Sauce Recipe
Chicken with Peppercorn Sauce Category Chicken Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

1 ea Salt

1 ea Black pepper

1 ea Paprika

1 ea Garlic

1 ea Basil

4 ea Chicken breasts

4 T Cooking oil

1 t Cooking onion, chopped

1 T White wine

1 t Green peppercorns

1/2 c Chicken stock

1/2 c 35% cream

Grind the salt, pepper, paprika, garlic and basil until it is a powder and then sprinkle this mixture over the chicken breasts. Heat the 4 tbsp oil in a frying pan and saute the chicken until it is cooked but not overcooked and dry. Meanwhile, brush another frying pan with remaining cooking oil and saute the onions until they are transparent. Add the white wine and reduce until it is a syrup. Add 1/2 of the peppercorns and crush with a fork in the pan. Add the chicken stock and reduce by 1/2. Now, tranfser the liquid from the pan into blender and blend until smooth. Place the mixture back in the frying pan, add the rest of the peppercorns (do not crush this time) and the 35% cream. Cook this slowly until the mixture thickens. Pour over the cooked chicken breasts and enjoy.

 
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