Happy Remembering My Password Day

Oh, it has been such a long time since I blogged that I had genuinely completely and utterly forgotten my password... as well as the email associated with the account. Well, good news! I got all of the kids to bed at a reasonable enough hour to grab a moment to myself to check every …

When you’re thankful for Jesus

Happy Thanksgiving. For those of you not from America, today is supposedly a day dedicated to gratitude. I am not even going to attempt to touch on the dubious historic treatment regarding Native Americans. That could definitely be a post of its own. As with most celebrations, the primary focus has strayed and has become …

What I learnt about raw ingredients

I was envisaging this phase being a time to find more about flavor by taking cooking out of the equation. I had this romantic vision of experiencing raw food and l would learn so much more about flavor combinations and so on. Raw vegan is no joke. I was eating literally all day long. I …

What I learnt about grains

Last week was all about balance and I will write a longer post regarding that at the end. My hope is that I can really incorporate the different elements and make a lifestyle change that gives us a healthy meal plan based on moderation, nutrition and fun. This current phase is actually the one I …

What I learnt about culturing [with Cream Cheese recipe]

Today, I finally got to the part where I can eat plants. Hurray! I spent the last week looking at cultured food and I had quite a lot of fun with it. I have a mild fascination with preserving foods - fermentation, culturing, salting and curing (as well as dehydrating and smoking). I was excited …

What I learnt about fat

This first phase was definitely a challenge for me personally. I'm sure that other people would love to eat all the bacon they could ever want, but I am unfortunately just not one of those people. Besides it being really expensive (especially for good quality local meat), I did also get pretty tired of it, …

Spoonful of sugar

In every job that must be done There is an element of fun You find the fun and snap! The job's a game And every task you undertake Becomes a piece of cake - Mary Poppins I don't like cleaning. I'm basically the children in Mary Poppins. I don't want to be a nesting robin …