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Pink Sauerkraut

March 4, 2010

My big ceramic crockpot of sauerkraut has been fermenting for 2 weeks now. I took the first taste today and it’s marvelous! My favorite way to make sauerkraut is with seaweed for the mega-minerals.
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Movie Review: Food Inc.

March 2, 2010

I just watched the movie Food, Inc. Good one! I borrowed it from my local library. It documents how our nation’s food supply is controlled by a handful of corporations that put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment with the consent (and [...]

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Baristanet Locals & Askinosie Chocolate

March 1, 2010

After reading about the Askinosie chocolate giveaway, the Chocolate Path shop right here in my hometown of Montclair, NJ is diving into the chocolate fun too! For all you locals, the Chocolate Path will have free Askinosie chocolate samples on Saturday March 6th at their shop at 94 Walnut Street in Montclair. Not only that [...]

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March 2010: Askinosie Dark Chocolate Giveaway

February 28, 2010

Since receiving my delicious Askinosie sample, I’ve been playing around with the cocoa powder in the kitchen (the chocolate bars mysteriously disappeared somehow .) It smells incredible! I just want to dab it behind my ears and smell the chocolate billowing around me all day long. Ahhh…it has a calming, nurturing effect – LOL.
But [...]

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Food Review: Askinosie Chocolate

February 27, 2010

I like to think of myself as somewhat of a chocolat connoisseur. For the longest time, I didn’t indulge because I had really bad acne and chocolate aggravated it. It wasn’t until years later that I found out that it

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Book Review: Food Rules

February 26, 2010

Another winner of a book from Michael Pollan! Here are some of the gems inside Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual -

Eat only foods that will eventually rot.
Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.
Don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
Don’t eat anything with more than [...]

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Roasted Garlic Goodness

February 24, 2010

When I last fired up my oven to make a batch of roasted veggies, I decided to try out my new (used) garlic roaster that I got for free. (Thank you Freecycle!) The garlic came out awesome! I mixed some of the garlic paste with my roasted cauliflower instead of roasting crushed garlic WITH the [...]

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Vitamix vs Blendtec Showdown!

February 22, 2010

Vitamix vs Blendtec. Both top of the line professional blenders that have divided the raw food camp for years. On the one side, there are the loyal, steadfast Vitamix lovin’ diehards. On the other, the unwavering, staunch Blendtec devotees…Montagues, Capulets…Hatfields, McCoys… Jets, Sharks…And now Vitamix, Blendtec.
Personally, I own a Blendtec hp3a, but I’ve used the [...]

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From the Chocolate Video Vault

February 21, 2010

Continuing with the Valentine’s month chocolate theme, I found this video clip below from a series of raw food classes I taught in Australia last year. This particular class was on preparing raw nut mylks, cheeses and creams. The recipe is Hazelnut Cacao Mylk. It was filmed at Samudra, a gorgeous raw food cafe on [...]

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Vote for Slow Food for Kids

February 20, 2010

Michelle Obama recently launched a new initiative to solve the epidemic of child obesity…”To put in place common-sense initiatives and solutions that empower families and communities to make healthy decisions for their kids.”
About 32% of children and adolescents are obese or overweight in the USA according to government statistics. If Congress invests in healthier food [...]

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Roasted Winter Veggies Rock My World

February 17, 2010

I spent the last 3 years living in tropical climates trying, to avoid the biting Northeast winters. I lived and traveled from Arizona to Hawaii to Australia. I built up this idea in my mind that my tri-state area home was a bleak place to live. But now that I’ve made my homecoming this past [...]

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And the Banana Coconut Cake Goes To…

February 15, 2010

….Fibyu! You are the winner of the Tropical Traditions Coconut Oil Giveaway. Fibyu was lucky number 32 drawn by random.org:
Looks like Fibyu also picked a winning recipe in her comment too!
Fibyu, please respond to my email in 48 hours to claim your coconut oil prize!

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