Healthy Foods: If your mood’s out of whacka, try some maca
Maca is a root that belongs to the radish family. It hails from Peru, where it has long been valued for its health benefits. Nowadays, the rest of the world is catching on to the wonder of maca. Used for everything from boosting libido to relieving symptoms of menopause, maca is quite the item to […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Duck, duck, gooseberries!
Have you seen those little papery fruits in the plastic clamshells at the supermarket and wondered what they were? They’re actually gooseberries. The papery kind is one variety of 50 or so that are found from China to Canada and many points in between. Enjoyed most often as a dessert ingredient for their tart flavor, […]
Healthy Foods: Big health bang delivered by liver
Few things can raise as many “I’m not eating that” and “eew! Disgusting!” reactions from the dinner table as liver, but that’s too bad because the nutrition found in organ meats is unbelievable! The liver is a storage organ for vitamins A, B12, D, E, and K, as well as copper, iron, and other essential […]
The secret to getting dinner done (I have this!)
Dear Friends, It’s time to get back to school and back to routine! That means dinner is going to need to be doubly quick–from making it to serving it–you’ve got carpool, sports practice, and dance lessons to get kids to, right? I’ve got you covered!! ENTER THE CROCK POT! Our Crock Cooker ebooks will keep […]
Healthy Foods: Get set for good health with gelatin
You know those jellied salads your mother and grandmothers used to put on the potluck table? As it turns out, the gelatin that makes those molded salads stand up like they do is extremely healthy for us. Well, without all the sugar that Great Aunt Martha used to add in there of course! Gelatin is […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Mary had a little (grass-fed) lamb
Lamb meat comes from a sheep that is under a year old, whereas “mutton” is sheep older than 2 years old, and any age in between is referred to as “hogget.” Lamb is definitely sweeter and more tender than those other older meats. If you have a hard time with the idea of eating a […]
Food For Thought: Can the canned cooking spray
If you were to sit back and really look at it, spraying a cloud of oil out of a can and onto your food doesn’t paint a terribly healthy picture, does it? I mean, it’s the same delivery vehicle as WD-40 or hair spray. And to be honest, aerosol cooking spray isn’t a whole lot […]
Healthy Foods: I heart hemp hearts!
Even though they come from the cannabis sativa plant, hemp hearts or hemp seeds can’t be smoked and they won’t give you the munchies if you know what I’m saying! Not only are hemp seeds not going to give you any psychotropic effects, but they will deliver some powerful nutrition when you pop them in […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Squash Blossom Season
Tis the season for squash blossoms, and if you can get your hands on them, I highly recommend you scoop some up. Squash blossoms are the male and female flowers of squash plants. The female blossoms produce the little baby squashes and the male flowers exist simply to aid in the fertilization process. Squash blossoms […]