I recently received a case of really cute 8 ounce POM pomegranate juices sent to me by the kind people at POM Wonderful. Pomegranates are the mythical or iconic symbol of fertility…… To read more of this review, please visit the Papaya Ice Cream with POM syrup...

Wow, our ISP (to remain unnamed for the moment) REALLLLLY screwed us over, on galactic proportions. I feel shaky having come out the other end of this nightmare. My blogs are back and I am hoping our new ISP has more ethics than the last. Today I am going to show...

Goat Cheese by Maggie Foard (published by Gibbs Smith in July 1, 2008) is a delightful cookbook that explores a range of ways for using goats milk cheeses. You may remember that we have our own herd of 18 LaMancha dairy goats and that we milk 7 does on a daily...

(Ingredients) A couple of posts ago, I showed you how easy it is to make sprouted whole wheat flour. In that post, Making Sprouted Whole Wheat Flour, I talked at length on the reasons for sprouting your grains so I wont delve into that today. Instead, I am going to share...

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center is the famed mountain retreat of the San Francisco Zen Center. SF Zen center was founded by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in the 60s. It is a vibrant Zen community (sangha) that has been instrumental in bringing Zen to the West and has served as an important...

(Freshly ground sprouted wheat flour in a Vita Mix blender container) I grew up eating rather dense loaves of homemade whole wheat bread that my mom made for us with love. It was the 1970s after all! I NEVER feed my family white bread (pure sugar bombs, straight into the...

(Sandor cutting cabbage) It is always inspiring to meet people who are passionate about food. Sandor (Sandorkraut) Ellix Katz, author of Wild Fermentation and The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, spoke at BU’s “The Future of Food: Transatlantic Perspectives” conference and I snagged a front row seat. Sandor was there...

(Lactobacillus god – Sandorkraut) . A couple of weeks ago, while twittering, I heard about this conference at Boston University called “The Future of Food: Transatlantic Perspectives” which will happen this coming weekend (May 8-9, 2009). Its sort of shocking how close I came to totally missing out on this conference. I...

(Amazing Wakame Salad) . Time has really gotten away from me these past weeks so this post is just too long in the coming! . Back on March 16th I visited the International Boston Seafood Show (3rd year in a row!) and was fortunate to be able to attend an evening of meeting the...

Took this video out in our goat shed in our backyard the other...