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We're eating enormous amounts of fresh raw food from the garden. Every day we take a bushel basket and head down to collect the daily harvest; we come back with our bellies full and our basket wanting. No dishes! And the kids love it because they think there's something naughty about 'stealing' food right off the ...
It's been a busy summer of gardening, harvesting, cooking and preserving. This year is, for me, the most productive season I've ever had. The early spring gave us an early summer which, in turn, gave us an early harvest. The dry start was scary, but eventually gave way to an almost perfect schedule of rain ...
The oven works! However, we only lasted week before I started shopping for a portable electric burner. The first one I bought turned out to be a dud; I returned it to the store the following day. It was another week or so before I found a very funky, but sturdy, double burner, and I snatched it up for twice ...
I cut my first full salad today: tatsoi mustard, red oakleaf, spinach, cos, and a couple of other lettuces that have returned from last fall. I added some dandelion greens, chives, lemon balm and three different kinds of sprouts (not mine), then topped it all off with the usual spiced pumpkin seeds, fruit (figs) and ...
My range blew up today. It could be a sign that we're ready to make the leap to raw; more likely, the appliance heard us talking about the new V*****x I'm getting as a late Mum's Day gift, and it was literally 'shattered'. How long can we go without replacing it? I'm eager to find out. I have ...
I don't want to be a "raw foodie". I want to eat raw food. Why? I want to save time. I want to save energy. I want to gain energy. I want my meals to take longer to eat than to prepare. I want my meals to take longer to eat than to clean up. I want to stop cooking. ...
How does one "EAT Green"? It's a popular topic, and everyone has an opinion. Here is my answer: daily Eat something green every day. And I don't mean green and fuzzy with an odd smell to it. "Greens", as defined by most people, refer to leafy vegetables - kale, chard, collards, spinach, mustard, lettuces and the like. But don't forget ...
The basics of 'how to juice' are in every manual and at every keyboard; what is harder to find is real advice on how to convert. Chunky jungle juice is NOT a necessary evil on the Path to Invincibility. I found this out the hard way. Of course, my definition of "chunky jungle juice" has changed now ...
Tonight for supper, we had a raw taco salad and a green juice. The juice was one of the best yet - a variation on Juice Me Green Baby! but somehow a notch above. Try this: Juice Me Green Too! 1 large bunch green kale 1 medium field cucumber 1/2 large bunch parsley 1/2 lemon, unpeeled 1 inch chunk of ginger, ...
I've been having a green juice every day for several days now. My favourite concoction is as follows: . . . . . . Juice Me Green Baby! 1 bunch fresh spinach 1/2 bunch of celery 1/2 bunch of cilantro or parsley 1/2 peeled lemon 1 inch chunk of peeled ginger (or 1/4 tsp powder) Run all ingredients through a juicer in the order listed. (If using ginger ...
Herb gardens, salad gardens, cutting gardens, butterfly gardens, knot gardens, rock gardens, water gardens, rose gardens, wildlife gardens, potagers. What about a juicing garden? I've reorganized and replotted my garden four times already. The latest version includes a juicing garden, designed to ease my transition to an 80% raw foods diet. Some of the best juicing choices are ...
This week I dusted off my 'new juicer' and tried some of my old favourites. This is my second juicer. I purchased it about 3 years ago because my first one, which worked fine, sounded like a chainsaw every time I started it up, so I couldn't use it while the babes were sleeping. The new one ...
I've spent the last several days going through my old seeds and deciding what to use and what to toss. I generally have no trouble germinating seeds that are three or four years old. I don't even store them under particularly 'seed-friendly' conditions, and yet many of them still produce. Now, that's fine, of course, if ...
Quiche makes a good Meatless Monday recipe, using any combination of leftover veggies (and herbs). (While it is generally recommended that only the heaviest of creams be used in a quiche, I only had half-and-half in the fridge, so I experimented by adding a wee bit of guar gum to the filling. It seemed to work quite ...
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