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It’s easy to make peanut butter from scratch that your kids will like. You don’t need anything weird, just peanuts, honey and salt.
Bread and carbs. For all my natural food ideas, my dedication to eating Michael-Pollan-style—”Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”—I am a pariah. Obviously, vegetarians think I’m Doing A Terrible Thing by eating meat. That, I’m used to. But to have the carnivores think I’m a traitor, too—that’s just too much.
Yay! I found a new source for raw milk. Yesterday, I got my first two gallons, and that included a quart of rich cream. (There was more, but that was all I could easily ladle off. I got another pint of half-and-half, besides.) So, I decided to make butter.
Oh, Yay! The Farmers’ Market is open, and there’s food! Real, honest-to-goodness local, seasonal food! I tried to be responsible; buying Basil is just silly. There will be tons growing in my own garden before long. But I couldn’t resist. It’s the call of the pesto, don’tcha know? And boy, was it yummy! The first [...]
Ok. I was gonna wait, but if you’re celebrating passover, you’ll just have to print this out and make them Sunday morning.
Oh, wow. Here I am thinking about whether to feel guilty for writing about sugar-free chocolate, floating along not worrying about all the food riots that have been happening lately, even wondering whether to post my pancake recipe, even though it’s passover (apparently I was a week off?)… But this little bit of news got [...]
I hope I haven’t given the impression that I never touch industrial food. Maybe I shouldn’t… I’m not sure. But there are industrial foods I eat to ease my transition to real food. One of those things is chocolate. And this chocolate is really amazing. No splenda or aspertame, no sugar, no candida yeast food, [...]
I should say right off that Chicken Makhani is one of the best foods ever created on the entire planet, ever. So my curries tend to resemble that dish a little bit. So if you like Chicken Makhani, I hope you’ll find this fish curry as yummy as I did. :) But I should warn [...]
Check out this excellent article by Rob Eshman on real food for passover, from Jewish Journal. I’m really happy to see someone in the “mainstream” world talking about real food, and why it matters. Here’s a little snippet, but really, click over and read the whole thing on Jewish Journal. During Passover, Jews are forbidden [...]
I was out on my bike, not being mindful at all, when I smelled something. I stopped right there on the sidewalk (yes, I ride on the sidewalk!) and looked up to see cherry blossoms (or are they apple blossoms?) above my head and all around me. Springtime! Yum. And you know what this means… [...]
It’s easy to neglect our garden in the cold rains of winter. But I managed to get myself there, and I’m glad I did. I found some lovely leeks and parsley growing. A bit of broccoli, too, but that’s another story. It’s the leeks and parsley that made my morning, with a luscious omelette.
If you’ve read The Ominvore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, you know that most of what we eat in this country comes from corn. But if you missed it, or you can’t get your parents/kids/spouse to read it, you’re in luck. A new movie is out, called King Corn. Here’s a trailer.
One of the things I loved about having industrial food in the house is how the kids could make it themselves, and not bug me all the time. But I love the family dinners we have now even more. Still, “after school snacks” and stuff… it’d be nice if they could pop in a frozen [...]
Mama taught me that when I want to thicken gravy I should reach for the cornstarch. So I was thinking. What did people use to thicken gravy, pudding, stir fry, or sauces before we had cornstarch factories? Is there a way to use whole foods and get the thickening I want?
Papa and I had a conversation this week about what to serve for a birthday party. Is white flour and sugar ok if it’s “organic”? Does it even matter whether it’s organic or not? Should we spring for a $20 store-bought white cake, or buy a cake mix for 99 cents? Is there any point [...]
Well, somebody is going to celebrate his fourth birthday tomorrow. I thought of buying a store cake, made of grossness, and then I thought it would be cheaper to make a cake mix, if I were going to serve non-food. But the problem with that is that the boxes of cake mix and cans of [...]
I don’t know much about alkalinizing, but I’m told lemon juice is great for adjusting your body’s pH. It’s also a great way to wean yourself off diet soda, and your kids off Dr. Pepper.
Ancient romans used lead acetate as a sweetener, and died of lead poisoning as a result. It’s a good thing we’re too smart to do something like that. Heh.
Ok, so the “whole wheat,” and even the “100% whole wheat” stuff at the grocery store is fake. But there is hope. Really.
I found some 100% whole wheat bread! There’s no question of it being a blend of whole wheat and white. This is touted as the healthy stuff. Here’s what the fine print said: WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CRACKED WHEAT, HONEY, WHEAT GLUTEN, SALT,
After a week in bed with the flu, I crawled on my bike and hauled myself to Safeway, thinking, as usual, that I might find food there. Hungry, tired, and wheezing, I pressed my way past a deli case full of white flour and sugar, and … Well, the grocery store can be really depressing, [...]
So you have this can of wild-caught pacific yellow-fin tuna, and you wanna eat some with mayo, on white bread. We’ll talk about the white bread later (DON’T DO IT!) but for now, let’s talk about Mayonnaise.
We live in a strange world. Other animals look around and sniff, exploring to see what’s good to eat. Humans read. We read packages, recipes, magazine articles, and books to tell us what to eat. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could eat more like the other creatures, by listening to our bodies and following [...]
Peanut Butter. I knew a man once who thought it was cruel to make kids eat “natural” peanut butter. It tasted funny! If you have a family that thinks this, don’t worry. You don’t have to feed them high fructose corn syrup and mysterious other ingredients.
Would your grandmother recognize the food you eat? In In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan takes a look at what’s happened to America’s food in the past 100 years, and provides a clear explanation of industrial food, where it came from, and what we need to do about it.
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