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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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s that time of year when I cut and dry all my herbs for winter use. The small-leafed herbs are hung to dry – tied up with twine and hung from coat hangers – but the majority of my harvest meets the heat of the dehydrator. I like that it’s done quickly but still at [...]
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 [...]
It’s been an amazing week for gardening, weather wise. On Monday, I sowed cilantro, green pole beans, yellow bush beans and shelling peas. I also finally transplanted my ailing onions and leeks, and my stellar parsley; they should have been put in the ground ages ago. Wednesday, I sowed more beets and carrots; also chard, corn [...]
A memorable recipe from one of my ‘forgotten’ cookbooks. It’s a good way to use up leftover mashed potatoes from Christmas dinner, and it’s quick and easy if you’re too partied out to make a “real meal”. Bubble and Squeak 3-4 cups mashed potato 2-3 cups shredded spinach or other greens 1 egg, beaten 1 cup grated [...]
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 harvested potatoes and onions today. The onions are perfect, round and uniform – I’m quite pleased. The only bummer is that I didn’t plant enough of them. The potatoes are from my second planting, which I did in the experimental stacked bins. Russet Burbanks in all three. RBs are …
It’s the same story every year: I’m happily going about my daily harvest – bringing in the beets, the potatoes, the tomatoes, the peppers – and enjoying the warm days and cool nights that September brings, when suddenly Environment Canada issues a Frost Warning. I’m usually wrapping up my evening with a soothing cup of [...]
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