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What exactly is a “natural diet”? For me, a natural diet is instinctive, sensual, and uniquely human. Most importantly, it is free of nutritional supplements. The desire to avoid nutritional supplements is, in fact, my main motivation for exploring this topic. I do not want to have to open a jar and pop a capsule [...]
I like my kids the way I like my food: raw and untainted. It’s fine for any adult to be motivated to make healthy lifestyle choices, but if you’re a parent – and a parent of three – you’re making these choices for other people too. . .and you have to be prepared for resistance [...]
The kids love rice, but they get tired of the traditional wild, brown or basmati that we normally eat. Risotto is like a savoury rice pudding. It isn’t difficult, but it needs constant supervision. Tomato Risotto Serves 4-6 2 tablespoons butter 1 onion, finely chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 1/2 cups Arborio rice 2 [...]
When we decided to cut out meat, I knew that the old family goulash recipe would need a minor facelift. (Blasphemy!) I decided to substitute chick peas for the stewing beef, which, incidentally, shortened the prep and cooking time by half an hour, saved me from dirtying a skillet, and turned the dish into an [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I like manual labour. I like to see immediate results of my efforts. Weeding dandelions is a perfect example. I’ve been pulling them almost daily. It’s very satisfying work. I already have a fridge full of leaves, so today’s harvest went straight to the compost pile. My first planting of beets did not germinate. Have to [...]
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 [...]
I had never made a souffle until just last week. Now I’ve made three. Three different recipes, all savoury, using very different techniques produced three equally good and well-risen souffles; however, each required adjustments as I went, so unfortunately, I have no fool-proof souffle recipe to pass on at this time. What I do have, after [...]
This was my first experience making falafels. I didn’t have any tahini, so I made a cucumber-yoghurt sauce, which worked quite well. Falafels 1 cup dried chick peas 1 medium onion, finely chopped 2 tbsp each parsley and cilantro 1 tsp each salt, paprika, cumin, and garlic powder 1/2 tsp chili powder 4-6 tbsp [...]
The original recipe for this Cream of Leek Soup can be traced back to a French cooking course my mother took years and years ago. It was gracefully aging into an “old family recipe” before I decided, just this evening, to ‘veganize’ and ‘babify’ it, and give it a new name (sacrilege!). In our house, we worship the gods [...]
I’ve always made my own burgers from scratch. I’ve been using the same recipe for close to ten years now, and they really are amazing. But, in order to achieve my meat-reduction goal, I’ve been trying out vegetarian alternatives made with nuts, beans, lentils or kasha. The kasha burgers I made several weeks ago, weren’t bad; [...]
Babies are usually ready to start solid foods by the time they are six months old. A few babies will thrive on just breastmilk until their ninth month, and others will be eager for new tastes and sensations at five months. Try to wait as long as possible. There is no danger in delaying the introduction of [...]
The babe is learning the art of spoon-handling. It makes sense to give her as many opportunities as possible to sharpen her skill, so for breakfast, I usually alternate between various hot cereals, such as oatmeal, quinoa, and millet, and mix them with various fruits, such as banana, blueberries, and applesauce. Well, this morning, I [...]
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