Salsa verde, bright and hot and green, makes its way to our kitchen every August when tomatillos come into their season. No, they don’t grow in our little corner of the Read More →
Reader Questions: Beef Suet, Kombucha and Budgets
December 11, 2011 | by | 1 Comment
I receive a lot of emails at Nourished Kitchen from readers who love cooking traditional foods, but still have questions. You might be wondering about how long you should cook Read More →
Kombucha Tea: A Reintroduction
November 3, 2011 | by | 7 Comments
As a reader of this site, you’ve almost certainly heard about the fermented tea with a funny name, Kombucha. Perhaps you’ve brewed it yourself (or still do) or maybe you’ve Read More →
Homemade Sauerkraut
September 26, 2011 | by | 92 Comments
Homemade sauerkraut, in all its funky humility, is a favorite food in our home – particularly in wintertime when fresh, local produce is a rare treat and we rely on what we’ve Read More →
Boxed Cereal is Not Food, Plus Two Nourishing Alternatives for Breakfast
July 10, 2011 | by | 4 Comments
One more time I am going to make the argument/request/plea to serve your children (and yourself) a hot breakfast. No more cold cereal, even organic. “Why?” you ask. The first Read More →
Brine-pickled Beets with Ginger and Orange
April 28, 2011 | by | 27 Comments
Fermented beets, dank and earthy and sour, number among my favorite ferments of vegetable. While I will always love the fetid odor of a true sauerkraut, the clean and salty Read More →
brine pickled garlic scapes
August 27, 2010 | by | 4 Comments
Brine-pickled garlic scapes, a near-perfect example of waste-not, want-not thinking, makes excellent use of a seemingly obscure food – one cherished only by gardeners and only Read More →
Fresh, Local, Traditional: My Food Philosophy
March 2, 2010 | by | 33 Comments
I want to welcome all the recent readers from CNN's story: An Inconvenient Challenge as well as the Globe & Mail's story: Ditching Processed Foods which covered Nourished Read More →
Traditional Foods in a Nutshell
September 23, 2009 | by | 47 Comments
The last few days, Nourished Kitchen has experienced a spike in readership, and I want to welcome all those new readers to the site with a back-to-basics approach to Traditional Read More →
Prebiotics & Probiotics
August 14, 2009 | by | 17 Comments
Prebiotics and probiotics represent essential aspects of a wholesome, nourishing diet. Though not the same, prebiotics and probiotics complement one another and work together to Read More →
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