In an effort to increase the usage of less traditional ingredients in our house, to broaden the kid’s palates, I have been experimenting with buckwheat. Common buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum, isnt actually a wheat, its a pseudocereal and is a non-grass broadleaf plant. Other pseudocereals that you may know are amaranth and quinoa. Buckwheat originated in...

BlogHer has teamed up with Kelly Ripa and the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund to bring us a fun way to raise money for this important cause. You can design a virtual cake and Electrolux will donate $1 to the fund! In addition, Electrolux is donating $100 to OCRF for every new range sold this month....

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I recently got a starter batch of kefir grains from Wardeh at Gnowfglins. She too has her own herd of dairy goats and also works hard to give her loved ones whole and wholesome foods. Her kefir grains have been amazing, quite vigorous, and the kefir delicious! What is kefir? Kefir grains are a combination...

A fact of life with kids and school these days – Snack Must Be Provided For Snack Time. Week after week I have to find a snack that the kids will eat but which is not nasty like cheezits or chips or other sorts of candy. Sometimes they go in with cheese, other times homemade...

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Some foods, like homemade bread, are more than just “cooking” and can be more like therapy. Pasta is like this. I was raised in a family where pasta was considered junk food, needless carbohydrates (obviously, we are not Italian or Asian!). In Colombia, the starch of choice is rice and various tropical starch crops like...

[This was cross posted at my raw food blog Raw+Simple] I had an opportunity to dive into the book, written by by Mark Reinfeld, Bo Rinaldi, and Jennifer Murray, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Raw. I had not previously read one of these Idiot’s Guides but I found that they use uncomplicated first person...

I have entered this post into the annual Bon Appetit Holiday Dessert Bake-Off and I would be deeply thankful if you would follow THIS LINK and vote for my entry! I have been fretting over this post for DAYS. I have been conceptualizing, racking my culinary brains, wondering if this entry should be super child...

Some time ago I had the great fortune to meet Dan Estridge on the web and then at a Dole & Bailey event up in New Hampshire (see my blog post from that event: Cross Species Portraiture: The Chicken was a Star). I can tell you at least one thing about Dan, he is completely...