The first week of the Nourished Kitchen 28 Day Real Food Challenge is complete and I survived! (Mostly due to rampant cheating.) Good times. Day 1- Throw Out Processed Food Looked in the cupboards, threw a tantrum, decided I was going to be a massive cheater and not throw anything away. Decided to grow up ...
A little bit of weekend fun. :) Yes, mung beans.
February 1st marks the end of January’s One Small Change and the beginning of what is shaping up to be an interesting and adventurous month. Dishwasher Free Zone In January, I abandoned my dishwasher and started washing all of my dishes by hand. First, I should mention that dishwashers are not evil. In ...
The title of this post is a shout out to a blog that I loved – Shouldn’t But Do (and its companion, Should But Don’t). Sadly, both blogs appear to have been abandoned by their creators. If you’re out there, Andrea and Jeff, come back. We miss you and all the ...
Last night I found myself looking at my dinner and feeling pretty good about my choices. Healthy, homemade, frugal and tasty. Not to mention that it’s actual food. When you live by yourself it can be awfully easy to fall into a diet of beverages and snacks. I’m trying to be good about cooking for ...
My sourdough culture is dead. Again. I don't know why I can't seem to get this thing to live. I am alive. My pets are alive. Even my incredibly finicky bonsai tree is alive (and blooming!). But this little colony of yeast and lactobacillus just isn't happy with me.
Like so many other people, I have been wasting too much time on a Facebook game called Farmville. While I have not yet reached the point of awakening in the middle of the night to harvest my virtual crops (sleep is sacred in this house), there are some mornings where the ...
Last week (or maybe the week before by now - I am slow!), The Ten Reasons They Hate You So made the rounds in a couple of sustainable agriculture social networking circles. I was astonished to learn that, as a liberal arts educated advocate of sustainable agriculture, I hate farmers. In order to ...
"Yearning in the human soul to smell a flower, pet a pig, and enjoy food with a face has never been stronger," preaches Joel Salatin, the man responsible for Polyface Farms, one of the best known working cases for commercially viable sustainable agriculture. ...
I spent a couple hours on Saturday morning watching The Future of Food, a documentary about genetically engineered foods.* I generally consider myself fairly educated about environmental and health issues. I try to be an engaged citizen and consumer. And I like to rant about things to my skeptical family, ...
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