Nothing stirs spring fever like the first green shoots heralding the coming new season, even when your hands are still wrapped around a mug of hot bone broth, New green tufts of baby onions join the sturdy green of October-planted garlic, everyone rising slowly skyward. Winter worn kale unfurls new leaves of a brighter tender green and the cold frames take on a pale green haze of tiny new seedlings [...]
The Power of Healthy Recipes for Relieving Pain, Healing Chronic Conditions and Supporting Vibrant Health Juicing Recipes: Everybody's Looking for Something If you're into juicing, chances are you like using juice recipes. Simple or complex, a juice recipe's main job is to make it easy for you to follow so you can create a fantastic juice. Healthy juice recipes to feed your mitochondria. In some ways, juice recipes [...]
Looking for something gooey yummy and warm for those chilly winter nights? Or maybe a nice addition for a weekend breakfast hash with eggs? Or a crispy, mild celery flavored ingredient to shred onto a fresh taco? This versatile winter root vegetable can virtually ‘do it all’! Even if you just want something that feels like eating a nice soft pile of potatoes without the nightshades, calories or high carbs? [...]
It's a snap to make fresh healthy drinks that heal and nourish us, we just need to take the time to think about it and do it... We can support our health by including healing drinks as part of our daily routine - it's quick and easy and the rewards are significant. In fact, research proves that those who drink healing herbal teas extend life, improve their health and even [...]
Have you been bitten by the Hawthorn bug? It's surprisingly active this time of year. ;) Berry laden branches nearly touching the ground with great swaths of little red dots covering fences, tangled in the lower branches of the oaks and marching up hillsides... Who could resist such easy pickings? When you can fill a five gallon bucket in less than 30 minutes, the lure is downright irresistible. And there [...]
As the long evenings of summer give way to lower angles of light in late afternoon, the glorious deep blue and rich golden reds of early evening sunsets make an irresistible backdrop for evening meals served on the deck or patio under the sky. This is the time of year when it seems you could eat everything fresh every day and still never keep up with all that is coming [...]
Looking for a way to enjoy summer's harvest? Try these simple Homemade Soaked Pita Veggie Wraps! Soaking flour with a little vinegar is a great way to get the nutrition of the grain without the anti-nutrients of the phytates. It's easy to do, and the soaking time is variable enough that you don't have to worry if your schedule gets thrown off. You can soak them overnight or for part [...]
What better season than late summer to explore the vast array of specialty and heirloom tomatoes in your favorite Bruschetta? Indeed, this time of year it is possible to incorporate specialty and heirloom tomatoes and specialty and heirloom basil varieties as well. Go completely crazy with late summer Bruschetta. The ultimate summer salad, Bruschetta is made up of copious amounts of fresh basil, fresh chunky chopped tomatoes, a healthy sprinkling [...]
I know what you're thinking. At first glance, the idea of juicing heirloom and specialty tomatoes might seem wildly extravagant. Downright decadent and completely impractical. But honestly, it is nothing short of miraculous, and once you try it, I can promise you, you'll never look back. Heirloom tomatoes are those wildly shaped, rainbow spectrum specimens of tomato gracing gourmet grocers' shelves seasonally with hugely inflated price tags. Even at Farmers [...]
While cauliflower 'only’ has a track record of cancer risk reduction of 50% compared to cabbage's 70% risk reduction, that's no reason to scoff at the cauliflower. The biggest factor in getting enough of the potent glucosinolates in cruciferous vegetables is eating them on a regular basis: that is, daily. So in this regard, broccoli and cauliflower can end up being real winners for people who do not particularly appreciate [...]
