Lunar Noodling – Heirloom Apple/Butternut Pasta & Sunflower Seed Butter Sauce
Happy Lunar New Year! This time of year marks that particular moment when many of us (myself included) choose to observe onset of a new full calendar reset – and in this case the Year of The Monkey. In honour of kindred primates worldwide, this seems more than an appropriate time to celebrate with the best possible food to fuel primates of all species (including humans): FRUIT! As it seems that ritual accompanies the onset of each new year, symbolism always plays an integral role in the way many of us are...
Read MoreJuicy January – Healthful Habits & Reviews (part I)
Please forgive the acute lateness of this post, which was meant to have gone live in time for the start of 2016. Although I have been juicing rather diligently since the beginning of the month, the passing of my absolute favourite artist just following the release of his new album (the imminent availability of which had been my sole source of consolation since the recent passing of my dear father) came as a terrible shock to me and set me into what I can only describe as a grieving tailspin relapse. Although I...
Read MoreNoodling About with Spiral Slicers & Thai Nut Butter Sauce
Warm greetings to you, kind reader, and a bittersweet farewell to 2015 As promised per my previous post, I have more to share in relation to some testing I’ve been doing of various attachments acquired for use with the KitchenAid Artisan series stand mixer I’ve recently inherited upon the passing of my dear father. This holiday season has been incredibly difficult without him, and experimentation with one of his most liked gadgets was meant to bring a bit of joy into a heart-heavy journey...
Read More2015 Year End Update – KitchenAid Joy & A Fond Farewell
Greetings, dear ones. I humbly ask forviveness after oodles of über inactivity & virtual quietude having spanned a course of many moons. Once again, our old friend Impermanence has profoundly affected each and every aspect of my life in a relatively Earth shattering fashion. The seemingly sudden illness and subsequent loss of a parent (then handling nearly all aspects of the aftermath almost entirely on my own) has rather taken its toll on my heart and subsequent creativity/inclination to share outwardly....
Read MoreRaw Vegan Halloween Treat: Sweetza
Happy, Happy, HAPPY HALLOWEEN! This year it’s no tricks, all treats, and As promised in my previous entry, hereinlies my multi-part recipe post for raw vegan sweet pizza which is lovingly referred to here as… Sweetza Before beginning this project, please be sure that you have properly prepared your whole, raw oat groats by soaking and fermenting them for long enough to reduce the phytic acid content so that your body will remain primed to receive (& properly absorb) all nutrients to be...
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