On the side, I spent the winter break from school building a website for my sister-in-law’s new business. Marianna and Eric’s brother (Mike) and their two kids live near Willow Creek in Northern California and Marianna is trained as an herbalist and has spent a decade learning about the natural healing properties of plants and putting […]
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Raw Chia Key Lime Pie
I have been wanting to try making chia pudding for a while now. I bought some chia seeds about 3 or 4 months ago and have not gotten around to doing anything with them until this past weekend. Chia seeds are high in protein, Omega 3’s, and fiber. I’ve been trying to cut out the […]
Apple Cider Vinegar
I have a little love affair with apple cider vinegar. I originally started using it in salad dressings, particularly for the kale salad I love to make. The apple in the salad and the apple-y flavor of the vinegar go very well together. Slowly, I’ve started using it for other purposes. A friend of mine […]
Raw Cranberry Orange Relish
For Thanksgiving, there tend to be the three main kinds of cranberry sauce–the pureed smooth gelatin one, the cooked saucy one with the occasional whole cranberry, and the fresh slightly chunky relish variety. Some families go for the gelatinous one in the can, others make a gelatin cranberry sauce from scratch, others are strictly for the cooked […]
Vegan Lip Balm
I might have mentioned it before, but Thursdays are days I set aside to do craft projects with a good friend of mine. We instituted this schedule about 6 weeks ago and have stuck to it, spending at least all afternoon on Thursdays crafting, and often dedicating the whole day to our crafty projects. We […]
Tamari Sesame Kale Chips
I like kale chips as a snack, but had never tried making them until today. Partly I was inspired by Gena at Choosing Raw, who posted a kale chip recipe this week, and partly I was inspired by our trip to the vegetable stand this weekend where organic kale was only $0.59 per bunch (we ended up with […]
Carrot-Peanut Butter Treats for Dogs
It’s been a while since I posted the ‘dehydrated yam treats for dogs’ recipe and I thought I would spice up Maizy’s food repertoire with a new kind of treat. I just used what I had in the house and improvised and they turned out pretty nicely! I wanted to make a cookie-type treat without using wheat. Wheat […]
Roasted Winter Vegetables
Sometimes one-pot meals can be a real life saver. This one is so easy, warming, filling, and delicious. You can use whichever vegetables you have lying around. And for protein, you can chop up a couple of field roast sausages of your choice and toss them in with the vegetables. The other great thing about […]
Getting Back to Exercise
I’ve had some inquiries from folks about what I do for a workout routine to accompany all the delicious vegan food I spend much of my time eating! This has been a very tough week, and honestly, I think the routine of exercising every morning has really helped. Some background on my relationship with exercise… I’ve always […]
Dairy Cows Slaughtered to Drive Up Milk Prices
Last week, there was a bit of a media flurry about a very significant lawsuit against Cooperatives Working Together (CWT), an organization of many of the big dairy companies (including Land O Lakes). Filed by Seattle law firm Hagans Berman Sogol Shapiro, the suit accuses California dairy producers of slaughtering 500,000 healthy dairy cows in […]
