As part of the Nourishing Gourmet‘s Nourishing Holiday Foods Carnival, I’m sharing three of our tried-and-true holiday recipes: Cranberry Sauce with Agave Nectar & Cider, Squash with Sorghum Syrup & Butter and Soaked Flour Gingerbread. Each recipe makes use of natural, wholesome foods that impart spirit of the holiday season while also maximizing [...]
Then and Now: 30 Years of Food
September 5, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I came across this interesting piece by the New York Times recently and wanted to share it with you all. In a very real, very understandable chart the author has outlined the difference between our diet now and our diet thirty years ago. Thirty years is not all that long, evolutionarily speaking, but [...]
Meal Plan: 9/1 through 9/7
September 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
This week I thought I’d do something a little bit different when it comes to planning meals. Rather than meticulously plan out each meal for each day, I’m planning meals for the week. I spent most of this afternoon prepping the meals and setting them up in individual, labeled bags to make cooking [...]
Foodie Event: Nourishing Frugal Food
June 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The Nourishing Gourmet–always an excellent source for information on nutritive whole foods–and Keeper of the Home are sponsoring a Nourishing Frugal Foods carnival. Given the rising costs of food, these two women have devised a simple carnival that illustrates how we can still prepare nourishing meals for a low cost. And this idea [...]
Sunday Night Supper: Coconut Shrimp Soup with Lime, Ginger and Chilies
March 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
My family has been battling a wicked flu, so rather than bludgeon them with a heavy meal–the kind I love to offer on Sunday evenings–I made this simple-to-prepare but complexly flavored soup in combination with steamed brown sweet rice. It was a simple, light dinner, but who wants to choke down a buffalo roast with [...]
Happy Little Kefir Grains
January 19, 2008 By 10 Comments
Aren’t these the happiest little Water Kefir grains you’ve seen? They don’t belong to me–I killed my grains after a prolonged vacation–but they do belong to a member of Mothering.com’s Traditional Foods forum. See how the grains rise and fall with the carbonation? That is good kefir. It’s likely that you’re familiar with kefir–the milk-based [...]
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