As part of the Let’s Move Salad Bars to California Schools initiative, Live Gourmet’s parent company has donated three salad bars to local Santa Barbara schools. The three new, fully equipped, salad bars will be utilized in the cafeterias at Dos Pueblos High School, San Marcos High School and Santa Barbara High School…. Read the Rest »
If you haven’t heard, the Hollandia and Live Gourmet family of products also includes Grower Pete’s, a source for still living and organic butter lettuce and watercress. These veggies have the same, still living freshness you’re used to from Live Gourmet, plus are USDA Certified Organic! With that in mind,… Read the Rest »
You already know that you’ve got to eat your greens, but are you getting enough red in your diet too? Red butter lettuce is rich in iron that your body needs and also has plenty of vitamins A and C. Red butter lettuce goes great with onions as well, which… Read the Rest »
Here at Live Gourmet we don’t always follow the rules. For example, sometimes when a recipe calls for “watercress” we use Living Upland Cress instead. Why do we do it? Well that’s easy, we’re rebels. Plus we like our greens fresh and it doesn’t get any fresher than still alive!… Read the Rest »
Last week one of our lovely customers recommended a cookbook to us which she recently purchased from Anthropologie. The book is “The Fresh & Green Table: Delicious Ideas for Bringing Vegetables into Every Meal” by Susie Middleton. Susie, aka SixBurnerSue, is a blogger, vegetable farmer, and the former editor of Fine Cooking… Read the Rest »
September 12, 2012 | 1 Comment
If you’ve liked the Live Gourmet Facebook Page or follow @livegourmet on Twitter then you may have read some of these healthy living quotes. If you’ve missed them though, here’s just some of the healthy living quotes. The quotes are about laughter, family and friendship, nutrition, exercising – basically everything we believe… Read the Rest »
We’ve shown you ton’s of recipes that use our Living Upland Cress in the past. What’s so great about upland cress though? What sets our living upland cress apart from others? How should it be stored? Does it need to be washed? In our latest video, health counselor, fitness trainer and mom,… Read the Rest »
One of our lettuce varieties which we haven’t talked much about on the blog is actually 3 varieties, not just one. If you didn’t already know, in addition to our regular and our red butter lettuce, we also grow three other types of lettuce. These three varieties, Lollo Rossa, Lollo… Read the Rest »
Check out our new video featuring Dani Spies of CleanAndDelicious.com! This short video will give you the low down on our Living Butter Lettuce, as well as the basics of how to handle and prepare it. The video is below, enjoy!
Today we’d like to give a shout-out to the good people over at The Cheesecake Factory who, according to them, are one of the largest buyers of Butter Lettuce in the nation. Sounds good to us! If you remember, we shared one of the Cheesecake Factory’s delicious recipes with you… Read the Rest »