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Soaking Seeds

All seed forms of plants (peas, beans, lentils, seeds, and nuts) are perfect storage units, able to stay in that form until mixed with water. Put seeds into a jar and cover with water (1 part seeds to 2 or 3 parts water) to unlock the life force of the seed and activate enzymes and [...]

Tomato Paste

Have you noticed that most recipes calling for tomato paste just ask for a teaspoon or a tablespoon of the red stuff? And then you’re left with 9/10ths or more of the can to wonder what to do with.

Golden Medley

Today, when I was wondering what to do with most of the contents of the [...]

Loan to Carmen Magdalena Mathews Wilson for Catering

I am very excited to see that the loan I made to Carmen Magdalena Mathews Wilson for her to continue her catering business in Bluefields, Nicaragua has been combined with money from other Kiva lenders and disbursed to Carmen today.

She will use the $1000 interest-free loan to buy “80 pounds of chicken that costs US$ [...]

Food is a Mirror

I’m currently reading Steve Gagné’s Food Energetics and would like to share this quote with you:

Food is a mirror: Look into the mirror of what you eat, and you will learn to see yourself. This works the other way as well. Look into the mirror of yourself, and you will find a reflection of what [...]

Aches & Pains? Alkalize Your Body!

A dear friend of mine was telling me about some of her aches and pains the other day, and I suggested she might feel less achy if she were able to move her body toward a more alkaline state through her diet. Maybe you know someone who has some of the same problems. If so, [...]

Vegetarian Until Saturday

I’m eating as a vegetarian for four days in preparation for receiving a Reiki Level I Attunement on Saturday with Barb Weston – a Vancouver Reiki practitioner and the proprietor, Reiki Master and Reiki Teacher of Inner Focus Holistic Healing.

So, for tonight’s dinner, I had baked white beans, red quinoa (soaked overnight in an acidic [...]

How Many Meals a Day are Right for You?

In Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love, she spends time in Indonesia with Ketut Liyer, a Balinese medicine man of an unknown great age. Apparently, despite his heavy healing schedule while sitting cross-legged on his mat in his porch, he

eats only one meal a day – a typically simple Balinese dish of rice mixed with either [...]

Bubble and Squeak

In my childhood family, it was traditional to cook bubble and squeak on Boxing Day, using the leftover vegetables from the big Christmas dinner of the day before. The basis was always potatoes (baked, boiled, or mashed) and one of the cabbage family (cabbage itself, brussel sprouts, etc.). When there are other leftover vegetables, such [...]

Quiche, Ostrich, and a Great Dessert

What a delightful meal my friends and I had at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts on Granville Island! Pleasing to the eye as well as the taste buds. I had goat cheese quiche and salad to start, thinly sliced ostrich meat and vegetables for my entree, and I ended with a great dessert of [...]

Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts

Today, my colleagues and I are going to the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts on Granville Island for our Christmas lunch. The students graduate in two days’ time, so they should know what they’re doing!

I believe it’s a set menu and I don’t know what it is. But I’m all ready. I had an early [...]

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