Do you ever eat a couple of handfuls full of walnuts or a few tablespoons of nut butter and wonder why it feels as though you dropped a brick in your stomach? It’s because nuts that have not been soaked contain enzyme inhibitors that can cause uncomfortable digestion. Now when I first read about this…
“Or what if I had simply grown up in a time when food was seasonal? When there was, in each year, a time of more and a time of less? When food was not just there in packages on the supermarket shelf all year?” ~ Jessica Prentice ~ Welcome to another edition of Food Roots!…
Basil, dill, parsley, red leaf lettuce, beets & greens, collards, kohlrabi, fresh peas, red potatoes, kale, summer onions, fava beans, yellow squash, and garlic. Garlic that my toddler took a bite out of with a great big smile and said “that’s good gahlic.” Picking up our CSA share every week really is exciting. By Monday…
Last week as I was making preparations for company to visit I realized that somehow those preparations were going fairly smoothly. To put this in context you have to realize that I am not always (or ever) on the ball with housekeeping. Nor am I as productive as I would like to be on most…
