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Yesterday, I started soaking a third of a jar of buckwheat in acidic water (water with a few drops of apple cider vinegar added) in preparation for cooking it. Buckwheat is usually grouped with the non-gluten grains. I looked up the benefits of eating buckwheat in Sally Fallon’s book, Nourishing Traditions. Sally is the President and [...] Looking around my kitchen, there’s lots fermenting and soaking and draining going on. In the left-hand dark corner, the kombucha tea is chugging along. Beside the stove is a small jar with 1 teaspoon of flax seeds, 12 almonds, and half a dozen walnuts soaking in an acidic medium (filtered water with a splash of apple cider [...] I don’t know if you could really call this a recipe, but if you follow the instructions here, you will end up eating the best almonds you’ve ever eaten! Take 24 almonds and drop them in a small jar. Cover them with filtered water and a splash of apple cider vinegar to neutralize the phytic acid [...] You know those attractively layered jars of dry goods that you see in delicatessen store windows? I do that with my porridge grains, at home, and keep it in the cupboard, so that our porridge is made with a different ratio of grains on a daily basis. You’ve probably gathered that I love eating porridge. Partly [...] Every day, the morning facial ritual is different and my skin seems to like it that way. Currently, I include my face in my morning almond oil massage and, because the water is only just warm enough to be comfortable, the oil doesn’t all rinse away when I wash with a gentle Guelph Soap – I’m currently [...] I love it that I can find unusual grains in the specialty food stores in Vancouver. Take teff flour for instance. The smallest grain in the world, teff is a staple food of highland Ethiopians. Like most grains, it’s a light brown, sandy colour and it has a much higher percentage of bran and germ [...] I’m rereading Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide by Deepak Chopra, M.D. for the first time in ten years. What a wealth of wisdom there is in those 325 pages. And I’m confirming again that my Ayurveda body type – my prakriti – is Vata-Pitta. If you’re not at all familiar with Ayurveda, I’ll quote Deepak who [...] While my purple porridge cooked this morning, I decided to wash my kitchen floor. It needed a scrub. Leftover porridge heats up quite well. Stir in some active yogurt or some goat yogurt, some extra fibre, like bran buds, some Omega-3 EFA & |
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