Category Archives for "Nuts and Seeds"

Oct 22

The Acorn Harvest: Acorn Foraging and Recipes

Do you live next to or near an oak tree? If so, you are looking at a ready source of nutritious food: Acorns! Yes, acorns. You read correctly. Keep reading and you will be amazed at how easily you can bring this free and ancient food source into your cooking. California is wealthy with oak […]

Apr 28

A miso peanut sauce. Use as a dip, use as a dressing

By Jeanie Rose | Nuts and Seeds

This delectable dipping sauce whips together in a jiffy. Try it once and you will find other uses — sauce for stir-fry, a base for an Asian salad dressing, or to baste for shish-kebab. We enjoy it as a dipping sauce for grilled vegetables. It is a great food to enjoy around a table while […]

Feb 17

A low salt “sprinkle” for those of you cutting back on salt…

By Amanda Rose | Nuts and Seeds

This seasoning is so ridiculously simple that it hardly warrants a recipe but it’s really a killer concept that you should know if you don’t already. This is a seasoning mix designed to help you intake less salt. First, let me say that I have never, ever in my life been concerned about salt. Eating […]

Dec 15

A lower-carb chocolate chip cookie (gluten-free to boot)

By Amanda Rose | Coconut

This cookie is surprisingly popular in our household. I am surprised at its popularity in part because the presence of a chocolate chip within in a cookie sets up expectations for a “Tollhouse”-like experience. The fact is, like most human beings, I would love to live on Tollhouse-like cookies for at least three meals a […]

Dec 04

Making coconut milk at home from fresh coconut (in a lesson from India)

By Amanda Rose | Coconut

Amanda’s note: Here is another great recipe from Ramya Venkateshwaran, writing on a coconut farm in India. (Her website is WildTurmeric.net.) I asked her to write about her method for making coconut milk from fresh coconuts and I am tickled to learn from her experience. I doubt I’ll ever land a fresh coconut to meet […]

Oct 08

Your next Vitamin C-rich smoothie

By Amanda Rose | Coconut

Amanda’s note: Here is another great recipe from Ramya Venkateshwaran, writing in India from her website WildTurmeric.net. We asked her to share a recipe that would help with iron absorption and she offers this high vitamin C drink, a nutrient that supports our absorption of iron. ~~~ When I was searching recipes for high iron […]

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