After making six quarts of nut and seed milks, I have a whole lot of pulp byproduct to use up. This spread, a recipe from Rawsome! by Brigitte Mars, can be slathered on crackers, used in a sandwich as a replacement for butter, or used for dipping veggies. A rummage through my fridge turned up some crisp spinach leaves and colorful asparagus…

Ooooooooh… this drink made with homemade walnut milk is so very good! Two dainty flowers, plucked from my front porch stepping stone walkway to provide a pop of color, is all it needed. I have been reading Rawsome! by Brigitte Mars and have been hanging out in her recipe section for a while, building my repertoire of raw recipes.   Nut Nog…

After soaking dried fruit to make yesterday's jam, I needed a use for the sweet soak water, so I decided to use it to sweeten homemade almond milk.   While I was at it, why not make several kinds of nut and seed milks? So, I soaked 1 cup each of walnuts, almonds, cashews, hazelnuts (aka filberts), raw sunnies, and sesame…

I purchase dried fruit in bulk, so when my eyes fell upon a recipe in a book titled Rawsome! by Brigitte Mars, I set about soaking raisins, figs, and apricots…  to make a no-fuss dried fruit jam. Dried Fruit Jam ½ cup raisins ½ cup dried figs ½ cup unsulphured dried apricots 1/8 tsp ground cloves +…

This is my grain mill that provides me with freshly ground flour. It's so very simple. Scoop the grain into the hopper on top and set the dial for the desired flour consistency from fine to coarse. The milled flour is sent into the bottom container.   The gallon jars contain (L to R) organic hulled barley for barley flour and…

A couple evenings ago, I went to my friend Connie's home for a Norwex Enviro Products presenation. Considering that the company's focus is "improving quality of life by radically reducing the use of chemicals in personal care and cleaning", Connie appropriately chose to make this healthy granola because clean living includes what we consume, as well. It was so so good, so I made…

Here's a very light, fluffy, tender pancake using a recipe that I got from the Little Falls (Minnesota) Food Co-op years ago. I don't think the co-op exists anymore. I ground my own wheat berries minutes before mixing up the batter, so they tasted especially fresh. I am hooked on pancakes. They really are a very nutritious breakfast…

It's amazing the things one learns no matter what age. Slicing apples is not a difficult task, but to make it even easier and get prettier slices, do this. Use an apple corer to remove the center seed section. With the stem end facing up, cut the apple down the middle into two halves. Place the…

For three days, Dick has been feeling a bit under the weather… that phrase could be the topic of a blog post… its origins… why it means not feeling well. We think his malaise is from a tick bite. It wasn't a deer tick that causes the bacterial infection Lyme Disease, but we have learned that regular…

Tonight is the final episode of "24", a weekly series featuring the show's main character named Jack Bauer, who is played by Kiefer Sutherland. Tonight's two-hour presentation is the very last episode with no new shows ever to be seen again. That makes me sad. Dick and I spent one entire winter watching Netflix DVDs of "24" to bring us up to speed,…