I love eating weeds. It is free, super healthy and effortless to grow them. Buying them from a fancy schmancy specialty market is usually very pricey. Early this year, I pulled out an evergreen shrub that was lining my driveway, leaving behind a brown dirt strip of decomposing mulch. I’m sure the neighbors were expecting […]
May 31, 2011
Get to know and befriend your weeds (instead of killing them). You’ll find that they have so much to offer. Introducing – the Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). Milkweed is the sole food source of monarch butterfly larvae (now I’d feel really guilty if I killed them for the vanity of my lawn). According to Wikipedia, […]
May 8, 2011
Every Spring, as other people are celebrating warm weather and basking in the sun, I get hit with itchy eyes, nose and throat, runny nose and congestion headaches. In the past I wouldn’t hesitate to pop antihistamines, but since I’ve been pregnant and nursing, I’ve suffered through it. This Spring I’m determined to find a […]
May 5, 2011
All milk is not created equal. The dairy industry wants us to believe otherwise. I’m not brave. The brainwashing got to me too. I was fearful to drink my first glass of raw milk, but then I realized.. This is great stuff! And I learned the truth behind the lies. A glass of milk from […]
May 3, 2011
This dish evokes my all time favorite childhood memory of my mother in America. She used to take me out to the fields and forage fiddlehead ferns to make this Korean dish of simmered braised fiddleheads. If you have ever eaten bibimbap in a Korean restaurant, then you’ve tasted gosari. They are the brown meaty […]
May 2, 2011
Yummy cod liver salad. I found this great recipe for cod liver salad on the Dave’s Cupboard blog. I have to say it is quite tasty. I added a bit of mustard and tabasco sauce to mine. You can find canned cod liver in a Russian or Eastern European grocery store. Note: eat this in […]
May 1, 2011
Here’s my recipe for stinging nettle pie, last night’s dinner. According to the Portland Tribune “Nettles are a super food.. They contain 40 percent protein. You’d have to eat a sink full of kale to get the protein in one serving of nettles. A handful of nettles provides more than 100 percent of the recommended […]
August 11, 2011
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