Posted in Real Time Farms blog, Recipes on April 3, 2013
I would have loved to have been in the marketing room when they started discussing what in the world they were going to call the liquid that is discharged when soaked nuts are ground in water… Because nut juice, well, really doesn’t work. Yet, as they probably knew, nut milk is not milk. Milk is [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Health, Recipes on March 7, 2011
For the past four months we have been chomping on fresh greens courtesy of our CSA from Shannon Brines of Brines Farm. Curly baby kale, dark soft spinach, tall elegant arugula, and delicate salad mix are grown in his hoop houses. Sometimes he adds squash, potatoes, beans, or frozen tomatoes to fill out the selection [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Health, Recipes on January 18, 2011
I recently took a raw food “cooking†class (or raw food construction class) at Raw Gourmets International in Chicago. We spent the whole day pureeing, chopping, and dicing various vegetables and nuts to make ourselves lunch and dinner. In addition to changing the way I use my food processor, I have become emboldened to attempt [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Health, Recipes on December 6, 2010
For me, in the deepening dark and solid clear cold of December, I want to be warm. I want warmth coming from the inside of my belly as well as from sweaters on the outside of my belly. Ginger, garlic, and chili peppers accomplish just that. Ginger, garlic, and chili peppers can be put on [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Growing Goodies, Recipes on November 1, 2010
According to the Master Gardener vegetable lesson, potatoes need to be harvested when leaves turn yellow. Deciding to split the difference between a full display of yellow wilted greenery and cold hands, we dug ours last weekend. Just like our kale, our La Ratte potatoes were an unplanned gift from last years planting. In honor [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Health, Recipes on October 25, 2010
“Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.†When Hippocrates stated these words, I am sure ancient Greece had as many forms of enticement as we have today to lure people away from the path of food as medicine. Sautéed mice with honey and dates, anyone? Hippocrates stated those words hundreds [...]
