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I was curious whether it would work, using brown eggs–especially straight from the farm. It did work, but we learned a few things. You probably already know to boil them starting with cold water, so they don’t crack. And after they boil for 10 minutes, to cool them fast, in cold water, so they’ll be [...]
This is a really wonderful development. The ingredients are listed on the front, in large type! Oh, joy! I will stick with coconut bliss, being already on the diabetes train and all. But I think I could feel good about giving this to my kids. P.S. Apparently I lied about that last one being… uh, [...]
Last night my little one, age four and a half, was having bad dreams. He wanted to go back to sleep, but the dreams continued to form in his mind as he tried to fall asleep. I whispered to him that we could make a new dream, one he liked. Sometimes that seems to help. [...]
I ran across this little snippet from one of the authors of Real Food for Healthy Kids. Amazing, but true:
The recipe I used was our Simply Splendid Sugar Cookie, which uses equal parts whole-wheat flour and white flour and a little less sugar than the norm.
Foie gras is not a pretty thing. It’s a cruel thing. In this TED video, chef Dan Barber tells about a farmer who has discovered that when you take the cruelty out of it, you get something much, much better. How’s that for a lesson? By the end of the video, he gets into lots [...]
I have a dirty secret. Well, it doesn’t feel dirty, but I know that in many ways, it can appear that way. “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.”—Mahatma Gandhi Since I was a very little girl, I have been fascinated—no, obsessed—with questions about why we [...]
When Marshall Rosenberg talks about NVC, he sometimes quotes the schoolyard rhyme, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” I can’t shake the idea that there’s something missing in this picture of the world. On the one hand, sometimes it’s possible for me to remember that people make judgments [...]
I remembered not long ago how my mom used to make these amazing green beans, and I called her up and asked what she put in them. “Just green beans, honey,” she told me. “Are you sure, Mom? That doesn’t seem right.” After a lot of discussion, she said “Oh, well, and some potatoes.” So [...]
NVC (never heard of it?) says that if you want a better chance at getting your needs met, you should make a clear request (and not a demand). And Marshall tells us we can tell the difference because if it’s a request, we don’t get upset if the answer is “no.” So I know I [...]
“Mom, are these hippie muffins?” Me: “No!” Brother: “Yeah.” Me: “Shut up! Do you like them?” Both: “Yeah!” w00t! Ok, so we have a whole bunch of squash. Seriously.There was this part of the garden, see, where we’d dumped the chicken compost. We’d only ended up using half the garden space, because we got tuckered [...]
It’s time for frost, and that meant a big harvest on Friday. This picture is the rest of our basil plants. We pulled them up by the roots and stuck them in a jar, because they smelled like heaven. We also picked all the squash, of course. We’ll cook the ones with broken rinds, and [...]
(I didn’t say *only* food, did I?) When I got a garden near my house, I stopped going to the community garden space I’d been frequenting. I’d started living closer to home, and biking to the grocery store and the coffee shop I like to work in, but nothing regular like that three-times-a-week trip to [...]
Well, I got replies, and sign-ups, but not comments. Hmmm. Lots of love, but nobody was willing to tell me which way to go. I think food wins. Partly ’cause someday, I really do want somebody to buy the t-shirt! But also ’cause I realized that I have lots of places to write the other [...]
It’s been a long while since I wrote anything here. Local food, whole, real food made of actual living things was really easy to write about at first, but after a while it becomes something like the platonic image of mundane. I mean, is there anything less interesting to talk about than taking a walk [...]
My husband and I were at our favorite local store, and I was buying some almonds because, well… yum! Anyway, I was thinking of raw almonds, but I saw him eyeing the roasted almonds, so we thought we’d get some. I tasted one of the roasted almonds, though, and… there was definitely something missing. It [...]
I don’t usually talk in extremes, but I think that growing food may be the most enriching thing I’ve ever done. Not because of food prices, although it does make a difference. But it’s more than that. Food prices might be a blessing, actually, because the high prices are for food that isn’t food. We [...]
These mice are identical twins. Honest. Want to know what happened? Epigenetics is what happened. Epigenetics is a fascinating twist on the old nature vs. nurture debate. Apparently, environmental factors significantly affect how our genes are expressed. And in this case, a very common environmental contaminant, Bisphenol A, turned on some genes that were supposed [...]
We weren’t able to get a CSA this year — none were close enough that we felt comfortable committing to biking the distance each week — we did manage to get a garden planted. And that garden is producing Swiss Chard. (Or just Chard. I don’t know if it’s swiss or not.) I didn’t know [...]
The Centers for Disease Control is reporting that in 2007, almost 25% of people 60 and over had diabetes. That’s one in four, and it’s climbing. And you know what? If you’re not 60 yet, you will be one day. Diabetes isn’t the only problem. If you’re on the *path* toward diabetes, your body is [...]
The other day I was talking to a lady I know who grows a lot of her own food and promotes gardening and natural healing. She eats a generally raw-food diet. She’s a inspiration, really. But I discovered that day that she also sometimes eats giant cookies made of white flour, sugar, and who knows [...]
I’m coming out of hibernation from strep throat, because I just have to say this: My son is thirteen, and we saw Into the Wild together at the theater. Since then, he’s seen it twice at his pretty cool school. Today, he told me “I just figured out what Into the Wild was about. It’s [...]
I meant to show y’all what the raw milk looks like when we get it. (Sorry for the bad picture!) This is a half-gallon jug, and most of the time there’s at least twice as much cream. But we ordered a bunch of milk, and got some of the lower fat stuff in addition to [...]
I was at the grocery store <shudder> today, and I saw this Eat Clean Cookbook. I picked it up because the title was intriguing. And you know what I found? Recipes made out of real food! Amazing.
I found this terrific cartoon on The Parenting Pit, an awesome blog about life with kids.
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