I finally did it. I pulled out Nourishing Traditions, found the raw milk yogurt recipe, and made it. (This post is part of Healthy Home Economist’s Monday Mania.) I hadn’t planned on it. We’d been going along, drinking raw milk kefir green smoothies for breakfast as part of our healthy diet regimen, with seeming contentment [...]
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A truly healthy diet includes a good bit of raw food. And not just fruits and vegetables – raw cheese is a great source of protein and calcium, as well as healthy fats. It’s the perfect alternative for people who live in places where raw milk has been banned from public sale (and all my [...]
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Today I am participating in Real Food Wednesday courtesy of kellythekitchenkop.com. When I recently heard that many people have trouble making their grass-fed beef recipes come out right, I didn’t get it. I have prepared grass-fed beef (a great part of a healthy diet) numerous times and it also came out tender and scrumptious. Come [...]
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Time for a great cucumber recipe! If you’re like me, you believe that there’s no better way to pursue healthy living than to garden. So you’re either beginning to harvest the first cucumbers from your garden, or are looking forward to doing so in the next few weeks. You may also be like me in [...]
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It suddenly has become too hot to cook our usual Saturday morning pancakes, so this is what we had for breakfast this past Saturday: Banana-cashew “ice cream”! The one in the middle with the cacao nibs is mine. The ice cream by itself was way too sweet, so I needed to add some bitterness. Benjamin [...]
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Is it possible to eat healthy during the holidays? In this video, I show you one of many healthy Christmas recipes floating around the world – especially the raw food world. Christmas cookie recipes don’t have to be filled with sugar and transfats. They can be completely free of the chemical additives that often increase [...]
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A homemade tahini recipe is not at all complicated, and an inexpensive option of a healthy diet. Just put some sesame seeds in a high-quality food processor, whirl it until smooth and spreadable, and voila! It’s as easy as that. Or, is it? Well, it could be. If you like the bitter taste of store-bought [...]
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How’s this for a healthy diet? The other day, we had ice cream for breakfast. Seriously. Of course, it wasn’t the run-of-the-mill grocery store frozen sugar-laden stuff. It was raw ice cream, made from young coconuts. I based it on the recipe in Natalia Rose’s book, The Raw Food Detox Diet, but decided to modify [...]
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Dessert? A part of a healthy diet?! Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as healthy dessert recipes. Following are several summer dessert recipes that not only taste great, but are packed with nutrition and help cool you off! Meal Replacement Shake Smoothie Serves one. 1 scoop meal replacement shake powder 1 cup water 1 [...]
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Should eggs be included as part of a healthy diet? The nutrients in eggs are varied and plentiful. That combined with their low cost should make them a winner with frugal cooks around the globe. However, during the past couple of decades, the greatness of eggs has been clouded. Mainly, it was because of the [...]
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