Inspired by a beautiful jar of tomato powder from our fall harvest, we whipped up this dip to take to a friend’s party. While it is a mix of familiar flavors combining tomato and basil, it is unusual for a dip. We set some aside and gobbled it long before the party started. We used…
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Candied Orange Peel
Do you have an abundance of citrus and regularly squeeze up a pitcher of orange juice? Your countertops are likely filled with a pile of squeezed out orange skins. They do compost well, but you might consider another route. Candy them! Candied orange peel is a nice finisher for a garlic-laden meal. It cuts the…
Fertility, Food, and a Mind-Blowing Factoid
There is a powerful statement about fertility that may blow your mind: All of your mother’s eggs were formed in her body in your grandmother’s womb. We women are born with all of the eggs we will ever have and the egg quality we are born with varies from person to person. As time marches…
Non-Toxic Stove Top Cleaning — Quick Tip
When you’ve got grime on your grime in your stove top burning pans and then you manage to boil over milk on top of that grime, it is time for a life change: Clean the darned stove top! Yes, you could buy some of that toxic-smelling oven cleaner, spray it on, and wipe it off….
Roasted Banana Ice Cream with Candied Nuts
Frederick and I are embarking on an ice cream adventure. Every week that he has done his chores without being asked, we make ice cream. Being a former (former?) educator, I approach all activity as time to explore and discover. Ice cream making is no exception to my rule. Frederick: “You can COOK a banana?”…
Raw Egg Safety: Yes or No on Raw Eggs in Homemade Ice Cream?
As ice cream season begins and we add new recipes to this website, I thought I’d take a minute to describe our raw egg philosophy. Many (if not all) of our recipes will contain raw egg and I wouldn’t actually recommend raw egg to everyone reading this site. Eggs are little balls of salmonella. Raw…
Nettle for Allergy Relief — Soups & Infusions
My 10-year-old son has increasing problems with seasonal allergies — we brace ourselves as spring comes with its pollen because this kid really reacts. Last year we kept him comfortable with over-the-counter medications, local honey, regular elderflower tea, lavender oil in a nebulizer/diffuser concoction as he sleeps, and a chest rub of lavender and eucalyptus…
Pollan Painting #2: Chicken Little at Magic Mountain
The blast-from-the-past Pollan Painting series continues as we await the release of Michael Pollan’s new book
Extreme Flash Sale + Giveaway ($750 Value)
Extreme Flash Sale + Giveaway ($750 Value) This giveaway is closed. Lucky winners include Jennifer of Unrefined Kitchen, Vickie, Julie, Debbie, and Pam. Jennifer selected the Excalibur. The other winners are happily spending their winnings all in one place — Tropical Traditions. We’ve got a crazy flash sale going on with just about three days…
Chocolate Chip Cookie (With Coconut Flour — Gluten Free)
This cookie is surprisingly popular in our household. I am surprised at its popularity in part because the presence of a chocolate chip within in a cookie sets up expectations for a “Tollhouse”-like experience. The fact is, like most human beings, I would love to live on Tollhouse-like cookies for at least three meals a…
The Acorn Harvest: Acorn Foraging and Recipes
Do you live next to or near an oak tree? If so, you are looking at a ready source of nutritious food: Acorns! Yes, acorns. You read correctly. Keep reading and you will be amazed at how easily you can bring this free and ancient food source into your cooking. California is wealthy with oak…
Extreme Digital Health Library Sale
I am pleased to announce a gigantic flash sale — 53 products in total for one amazingly low price — $39.97!!! (For 10 days only.) Pat Robinson and I have had our noses to the grindstone organizing this massive bundle sale. I feel a bit at a loss for words about the sale perhaps because…
Children of the Corn (Pollan Paintings Remembered)
We were laughing the other day about this long-forgotten art work from Frederick’s kindergarten days. I posted it on the legendary Ethicurean website (now on hiatus) some years back, inspired by Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma which may be most remembered for exposing the vast use of corn-based ingredients in processed foods. Pollan may be…
Sourcing New Pantry Jars
We have written about sourcing pantry jars from old pickle jars and we actually just landed nine one-gallon pickle jars at a thrift store, but the easiest way to fill your pantry with decent glass storage containers is certainly hunting them down new. I’ve had luck with half-gallon size canning jars at Michael’s — other…
Eucalyptus Oil Prevents Mosquito Bites (Quick Tip)
If you get eaten by mosquitos, lemon eucalyptus oil may be your best friend. Whether you are sitting on your American porch in the summer slapping your forearms and neck or traveling to a country with malaria-carrying mosquitos, keep a small bottle of a lemon eucalyptus oil blend with you. A 2006 study found lemon…
Elderberry for Flu Symptoms
Home remedies for common illnesses such as the flu are exciting by all counts, but elderberry may be particularly exciting because, in our case, it grows wild near us. We can harvest it easily and for free. We use it in elderberry syrup and elderberry tea. Is elderberry really effective against the flu? In our…
Spiced Persimmon Smoothie
There may be no better reason to stash persimmons during fall persimmon season than this recipe. We freeze the persimmons whole (though you could freeze puree) and simply pop them in the blender with the other ingredients. If you are new to persimmons, you should know that if the persimmon is not dead-ripe, it will…
Homemade Holiday Flavor Infusions (Quick Tip)
The holidays are busy enough as it is — making some flavor infusions to keep stock in late November and December is a great strategy. We made up an infusion of peppermint and of holiday spices and we keep each in our refrigerator to put together quick drinks. These infusions allow us to use whole…
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