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Raw Key Lime Tart

January 25, 2010

Today Jessica and I made our first truly raw dessert from the book Raw for Dessert by Jennifer Cornbleet. It fills a full 9″ pie pan and is pretty easy to make, especially if you prepare the crust ahead of time (it will last for a month in a sealed container in the fridge).
For the [...]

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Making Fresh, Healthy Food Convenient

January 21, 2010

Last night I attended a great lecture put on by Nourishing Ways of West Michigan all about quick and healthy meal planning. Jackie White (chef, caterer, teacher, and mother!) described her system for convenient, delicious, and healthy eating. I learned some great tips for food preservation, planning, and preparation that are simple, yet extremely helpful. [...]

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Homemade Raw Applesauce

January 17, 2010

I’m very excited to share the recipe for this weeks Sunday Chef because it is delicious and oh-so simple! It takes less than 10 minutes to whip up! I found the recipe on Earth Mother In The Raw and had everything but the apples, which were luckily still available at the orchard/farm market near my [...]

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Test Your “Green” Level

January 16, 2010

I took a “green” quiz today to test my lifestyle at wholeliving.com and it was actually quite interesting. All you need is a piece of paper, writing utensil, and about 5 minutes. There are 12 questions about recycling, buying organic food, the types of house cleaners you use, how you get around, etc.
I scored a [...]

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Maple Syrup Pork Chops

January 10, 2010

This weeks Sunday Chef brings to you a tasty recipe from SimplyRecipes called Vermont Maple Syrup Pork Chops. These have a pretty quick prep (10-15 minutes) and then they bake for about 45 minutes. The ingredients needed are below:

6 pork chops
Olive oil for browning the pork chops
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 [...]

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Refreshing Lemonade Kefir Soda

January 5, 2010

While at the Wise Traditions 2009 conference, I had the opportunity to sample and purchase a deliciously healthy and refreshing beverage from the vendor Burgie’s Organics. The Lemon Kefir Soda is a naturally fermented (living) probiotic drink and has only four ingredients: distilled water, organic lemons, kefir grains, and honey. Although I tried many of [...]

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Raw Carob Milk Warmer

January 3, 2010

With the new year rolling in, it’s time to get one of my resolutions started which is to post a health recipe every Sunday in the new “The Sunday Chef” column. Today’s feature is a raw milk warmer from the Nourishing Traditions cookbook by Sally Fallon, and it has a rich chocolate flavor, to get [...]

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Homemade Foam Handwash

December 27, 2009

I ran out of liquid soap this weekend and had to come up with a quick (yet still healthy) replacement. With the farmer’s market closed for the season and very limited options at the health store, it was time to whip up a homemade recipe.
I happened to have an empty foaming soap bottle on hand [...]

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Toxic Body = Bad Breath

December 20, 2009

The number of mints, gum, mouthwash, and breath-savers available on the market are a sure sign of the bad breath plaguing this country. But what many people aren’t aware of is how toxins in the body affect their breath. Natural News recently posted an informative article on how bad breath is actually directly related to [...]

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Home Uses for Vinegar

December 14, 2009

Vinegar is a great cleaning product (as you may remember from previous posts on using it to wash linoleum floors, windows, cat litter boxes, etc. It is an inexpensive, versatile household cleaner and I’ve recently come across a website sharing many more uses for white distilled vinegar than I’d ever thought possible (1,001 to be [...]

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