Making Wine Vinegar

January 16, 2012

One of the things I wanted to explore this year, is making vinegar. Imagine my delight when I learned that it takes almost no time and starting it only takes a few ingredients: wine, water, and raw vinegar (for a starter). Above is what I used to start my batch of vinegar – 1 cup [...]

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An Afternoon of Fermented Foods

January 10, 2012

Last week, I went over to the my friend Denise’s home for a mid-afternoon snack and chat. Little did I know how awesome an afternoon it was going to be, full of fermented foods. We ate a number of kimchis, had some pancakes made with kimchi, and enjoyed a fermented soda. She did a great [...]

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Soaking Nuts Makes a Difference

January 9, 2012

One of the things I want to do this year is to get back to eating in a NT (Nourishing Tradition) style more regularly. It is this “template” that makes the most sense to me, and is the way my body prefers to be nourished. I already have incorporated raw dairy, fermented foods, healthy fats [...]

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Food Lover’s Cleanse 2012, Day 3

January 7, 2012

Day 3 of the Food Lover’s Cleanse went well!  I started out using the set schedule, with a two egg omelet with caramelized onions. I finished it with some of the wonderful paprika salt from my friends at Gardenfreude. I love this salt – it is my favorite of the herb salts they prepare. It has [...]

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Food Lover’s Cleanse 2012, Day 2

January 5, 2012

Well, the Food Lover’s Cleanse is coming along. I’m enjoying following it as well as diverging from it. On Day 2 I only used the cleanse as a template, and chose a variant path. For breakfast, I ate the leftover soaked oatmeal and topped it with whole milk yogurt, walnuts, and unsulphured dried apricots. I [...]

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Food Lover’s Cleanse 2012, Day 1

January 4, 2012

As you may remember from last year, I did the two weeks of Bon Appetit’s Food Lover’s Cleanse – this is not one of those vinegar-cayenne-honey liquid cleanses, but is basically two weeks of eating real, whole foods after the abundance of fractured foods present at the holidays. This year, I’m doing it again, though [...]

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Welcome, 2012

January 3, 2012

A belated happy new year to all of you reading this. I don’t know about you, but I was more than happy to say goodbye to 2011 – it was not a stellar year. That being said, there were some good things (successful tomato season; getting involved with the Traditional Community Kitchen; finding Linus) amongst [...]

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