Tag Archives: gluten-free

Getting the Most Out of Relay: Tags

March is National Nutriton Month and this year's theme is "Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day!" At Relay, we want to help you eat right your way while making your grocery shopping experience as easy as possible. We know that our customers have different health concerns and dietary preferences, so we try our best to make sure our products, all 10,000+ of them, are labeled correctly and easy to find through searches. Today, we want to share a little guide to our labels (called tags) so you know exactly what they mean and can rest assured you're getting a product that meets your needs. Antibiotic-Free: Provides reassurance that the animals used for meat, milk, or eggs were not raised with Read more …

Meet our Vendors: Pizza Tonight

Before giving Victoria Deroche's pizza kit a try, your blogging correspondent was a bit skeptical. I've made my own homemade pizza, making the dough, sauce, and toppings, on a number of occasions, and I didn't see how having someone else make the dough and sauce could possibly produce better results. My only memory of pre-made pizzas and sauces were of those doughy Boboli frisbees with overwhelming sauce that we made at elementary school sleepovers. When I arrived home on a Friday night at 8 PM, my friend and I pulled out the pizza kit, followed Victoria's instructions for stretching the dough thin (do not knead!), topped it with a fair helping of Victoria's sauce, then steamed broccoli, Read more …

Relay Recipes: Jen’s Rice Bowl with Kale

Jen, one of our dynamic Relayers in Richmond, offers up today's Relay Recipe. When she's not working at Relay, Jen spends a great deal of time experimenting with new foods in her kitchen. In her own words, "...food is a shared experience between all people and can serve as a uniting and nurturing force for individuals, communities, and the world. Plus, it's just plain delicious!" Jen's Rice Bowl with Kale This recipe is inspired by a dish at Chrissy’s – a café in Damariscotta, Maine. I replaced the soy sauce in the original dish with Liquid Aminos and added turmeric to the kale. Both ingredients are chock-full of nutrition and delicious flavor! This makes a fantastic brunch Read more …

20-minute meals: Garlic, spice, greens + beans

You may have heard of 101 Cookbooks, if only in other Relay Living blog posts. I have long been convinced that there is no better resource for anyone desiring inspiration for cooking healthy, flavorful, exciting food. That is, I was convinced until I laid hands on Super Natural Every Day, a beautiful, paper-bound compendium of Heidi's recipes. This particular recipe was inspired by the cookbook's recipe for dandelion greens and chickpeas. When I lived in Washington, D.C., I received dandelion greens in my CSA share. The next week at pick-up, everyone traded laughs over the largely unhealthy measures they'd taken to try and make this "superfood" edible: fried, floating in butter, even with Read more …

20-minute meals: homemade local spaghetti sauce

Maybe you have an Italian grandmother who would be aghast at the prospect of a 20-minute pasta sauce, but whipping this meal up in a hurry felt like a near miracle when I arrived home hungry on a Friday afternoon and needed to "carbo-load" prior to an early morning marathon training run! Often on blogs, you'll see recipes that are adaptations from cookbooks, from a secret family recipe, or even from other blogs. This recipe must tip its hat to a trick I learned making homemade pizza sauce with my mother when I was in high school: what makes it quick is not worrying about peeling the tomatoes. The first few times I made homemade pizza sauce with Mom, we carefully peeled and seeded each Read more …