In a previous post I answered the question, Is shrimp healthy for you? News from China has me even more concerned about shrimp and crayfish than ever before. If you eat shrimp, you should be aware of this. It is the crayfish season again; the delicious crayfish because popular in China’s hot mid summer nights [...]
But, my major reasons for choosing not to use animal products are much more common-sense: once I started learning where our food comes from, I felt I could no longer eat meat with a clear conscience. If she had a like button I’d push it. Since she doesn’t, I had to reblog about Alanna’s, “How [...]
The Chicago Tribute recently published a story, completely lacking sources, about wheat bread sales out-pacing white bread sales. They spent several paragraphs writing about “whole grains.” However, they consistently refer to “wheat bread” as brown bread and fall into the false logic that brown bread is whole wheat. It’s extremely unlikely that whole grain bread [...]
Every so often someone writes truth in such a powerfully compelling way that it’s a pleasure to support them. A friend of Kristen’s, who is not only a very talented photographer, but also into eating plants recently wrote a smashing post about veganism, raising your children vegan, and the myths perpetrated against us by big [...]
Um, admittedly, I need more practice making pancakes in our cast iron pans, but over the course of the week, I’ve at least made them edible! My first recipe included banana, and while that has promise, it’s kind of out of my league right now and the pancakes end up too gooey. So here’s a [...]
+ today’s lunch + a good book new to fava beans Today was the first day that I’ve ever eaten a fava bean. We received a pound of them last week from our CSA share and I’ve just gotten around to preparing them. The first step of shelling the fava beans was straightforward: remove the [...]
Oh, Gravy Gravy was one of the things that I missed going vegan. With Greg’s help and a modified recipe from the internet, I’ve been perfecting my vegan gravy, and I have to confess that I’m kind of obsessed with it at the moment. Greg doesn’t seem to mind eating it, and even takes the [...]
1 pear, 2 bananas, 8 small strawberries, 2 heaping tablespoons of flax, 1 cup blueberries This is a relatively recent development as fruit has gotten less expensive over the last month. California strawberries, finally! I have been considering the ecological implications of us eating so many bananas and then these pears, which are from South [...]
In lieu of a real post (though I’ve got one in the works regarding iron intake and pregnancy), these are my personal all-time favorite books that I’ve been thinking about rereading or reading more thoroughly over the summer — I want to post personal reviews that will convince you how important these books are too!
This is the first time that Greg and I have ever started going to the farmers market so early in the year. In years past, we loved going, but went sporadically, only remembering to go mid-summer, when more crops were already going strong, usually coming home with more vegetables than we were ever going to [...]
I woke up last night thinking about a few things that bothered me about yesterday’s post. I know that I have been living in a special place with special opportunities for food. It wasn’t too long ago that Greg and I were living in Chicago, and for as large as Chicago is, it doesn’t even [...]
It’s not uncommon these days for people to sit down with their friends to watch movies like Food Inc. or King Corn and realize with some horror that they would prefer to be feeding their families and loved ones food that isn’t laden with agro-industrial waste and pesticides, & that they would like most of [...]
a new study sheds light on the honesty of scientific research on stroke medications. The study found that up to 33% of research results have been absconded. It’s well known that much research in this country on strokes is paid for by the large drug corporations. They fund the research, they approve the results. If [...]
The farmers’ markets are opening up next month and I’m really looking forward to not only mingling with the veggie-eaters and growers of the community, but also having access to the wide range of plants available as the local growing season progresses. Greg and I usually take about $40 to the market, can’t resist spending [...]
A Dutch study concludes that giving kids choices about vegetables does not make a difference in the amount of vegetables they eat. However, on average out of hundreds of 4-6 year olds tested, most ate around 50 grams of vegetables, which is roughly 2 ounces. Sure kids don’t eat a lot, but 2 ounces is [...]