Juice Me Green Baby!
I’ve been having a green juice every day for several days now. My favourite concoction is as follows:
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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 [...]
A Juicing Garden
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 [...]
Love’em and Juice’em
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 [...]
Baby Steps to Raw
I’m taking a hiatus from raw recipe searching. Too many of them are too elaborate or they contain ingredients that are too expensive or too hard to find.
So I’m making a list: What do I not need to give up? What am I doing right so far?
Here is the answer:
raw fruits of all kinds
raw veggies of [...]
Freshly Nutty
The first time I made almond milk was eight years ago. It was relatively easy, and satisfying to make, but it tasted like chalk. It hadn’t occurred to me that my almonds were stale. The maddening thing was, they had been organic almonds purchased, in bulk, at my local health food store.
From then on, I decided to [...]
Kale Chips
I bought a beautiful bunch of bright red/purple kale a few days ago. It looked pretty on the table. It looked pretty in the fridge too, a trophy vegetable to show the whole family Look at the nutritious foods we like to eat. Another day or two, of course, and it would be making me [...]
Don’t Call Me Vegan
So, I’m sitting here eating my raw vanilla ice cream, and I’ve finally got my raw crackers in the dehydrator, after waiting a day and a half for my raw macaroons to reach the perfect crispness, and I’m thinking It’s time to come out of the closet.
It’s been over a year since I [...]
