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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 [...]
Frost Warning tonight. Busy day after a busy Thanksgiving weekend. Wanted to can some apple butter and apple sauce, but instead I spent naptime madly harvesting all remaining veggies from the garden: 3 green cabbages 1/2 dozen japanese eggplants of varying sizes 2-3 dozen peppers, green and purple, of varying sizes 3 over-sized zucchini 1 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
June was a blur. But the garden grows without me, now, so there’s little to do there except wait for the harvest. The peas are just finishing, the beans are just starting, the greens are continuing, and the tomatoes are full size and ready to change colour. I have never had such a lush vegetable [...]
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 records indicate that the earliest I’ve ever planted is April 2. That was in 2004. This year, I beat it by one day. On April 1st, I sowed the following: Lolla Rossa Lettuce Red Oakleaf Lettuce Tatsoi Mustard Sylvetta Golden Detroit Beet Early Wonder Beet Easter Egg Radish Sparkler Radish In the two [...]
How does one ”EAT Green”? It’s a popular topic, and everyone has an opinion. Here is my answer: 1. 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. [...]
–adjective of the color of growing foliage, between yellow and blue in the spectrum: green leaves. covered with herbage or foliage; verdant: green fields. characterized by the presence of verdure. made of green vegetables, as lettuce, spinach, endive, or chicory: a green salad. not fully developed or perfected in growth or condition; unripe; not properly [...]
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 better health. I found this out the hard way. Of course, my definition of “chunky jungle juice” has changed [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
My favourite basic fish recipe. Broiled Trout 1 lb trout fillets 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup lemon juice 1/2 tsp garlic powder 1/2 tsp paprika salt and pepper to taste Preheat broiler. Brush a baking pan or dish with oil. Place the fish in the pan in a single layer. Mix remaining ingredients in a [...]
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