This month, I’m giving away an Excalibur Dehydrator to one of you. I am so grateful for you, my readers! You hang with me through thick and thin as we buck conventional nutritional wisdom and cleave to eating according to our ancestral, traditional food ways. Without you, I wouldn’t be where I am today. So, as a way of saying thank you and giving something back, I’m hosting monthly giveaways!
Archives for July 2013
Coconut Lime Rice
Coconut rice is now my family’s go-to dinner starch, second only to sweet potatoes. It can be jazzed up many ways. Add mangos and call it Thai food, fermented red chili paste and call it Vietnamese. My favorite way to serve coconut rice is with lime and cilantro, so that’s what I’m sharing here.
Sneak Peeks into Real Food For Busy People
Have you heard of the upcoming e-course called Real Food For Busy People? It’s an all new online course taught by — count ’em — seventeen of your favorite bloggers, each one of them intent on giving you their favorite tips and tricks for saving time in the kitchen.
You’ll learn how these professional bloggers and cookbook authors get real food on the table in a fraction of the time. These women juggle appearing on the national news, producing their own online television shows, running full-time chiropractic or acupuncture practices, writing cookbooks and blog posts, managing farms, home schooling children, running farmer’s markets, you name it. They are busy mommas, and they’re here to help!This week, I’ve got my hands on TWO sneak peeks into the kind and quality of lessons you’ll receive as a student.
Your Appendix Isn’t Useless: New Scientific Theory Gains Ground
Remembering back to my days as a student of human anatomy and physiology, I recall clearly our lecture on the human appendix. The appendix was basically seen as a benign, but essentially useless leftover of human evolution. In some people, at some times, it would inexplicably grow inflamed and acutely painful. The remedy? Surgical removal. And guess what? Unlike removing an organ like the gallbladder, no one missed their appendix. Removal didn’t seem to cause any adverse health effects. Then, back in 2007, researchers put forward an interesting theory about the appendix. They argued that it did serve a purpose. The appendix, they said, is a repository for beneficial bacteria, providing support for bacterial growth and facilitating the re-population of the gut with good bacteria in the event that the intestinal tract is “purged” following exposure to a pathogen.
Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures of Feedlots
National Geographic photographer George Steinmetz was recently arrested for taking aerial photographs of a feedlot in Kansas. He took the aerial photographs for a series on food issues that the magazine has scheduled for next year. In an age when the government has no qualms tapping your private cell phone calls and monitoring your internet usage without a warrant, this government support of a lack of transparency on the part of giant agribusinesses is both a little alarming and a tad hypocritical.
Golden Mid-Summer Vegetable Noodle Salad
Sometimes all you need for lunch is a big plate of vegetables doused in good fat sitting alongside a tall glass of raw milk. And sometimes it’s just what I need in the heat of the summer when I try to make breakfast the heaviest meal of the day, getting all of my cooking in…
Beyond Bacon: A Cookbook For Pork Lovers
Are you a pork eater? A pork lover? Do you love pork from hogs that have been raised in a humane, sustainable, ethical way? If bacon is your favorite condiment and pork tenderloin makes your mouth water, I’ve got the be all end all of new cookbooks for you. It’s called Beyond Bacon: Paleo Recipes that Respect the Whole Hog. This cookbook is a feast for the eyes. It’s a hardcover keepsake of culinary delight. It pays homage to the humble pasture-raised pig, showing you in beautifully stunning detail how to use every part of the animal in a way that honors the pig’s life and excites your taste buds.
Sweet & Salty Kale Chips
When Kale chips aren’t made correctly, they can come out bitter and flat-out unappetizing. This recipe, however, will definitely not disappoint! No bitter chips here.
GIVEAWAY: Cast Iron Combo Cooker — $55 Value
This month, I’m giving away a Lodge Logic Pre-Seasoned Combo Cooker to one of you. I am so grateful for you, my readers! You hang with me through thick and thin as we buck conventional nutritional wisdom and cleave to eating according to our ancestral, traditional food ways. Without you, I wouldn’t be where I…
WINNER & SALE — Did you win June’s Cuisinart?
Last month, I hosted a giveaway for a Cuisinart Prep Plus food processor.
The food processor is a useful kitchen tool — doing everything from chopping vegetables to mixing dough. If you don’t have one, you should consider getting one. They save a lot of time in the kitchen, making it much easier to put real, wholesome food on the table for your family.