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How to Make Bone Broth with Serious Gel {GUEST POST}

November 15th, 2011 · 74 Comments · Food for Thought, Monday Missions

When the feasting lets up a little, and the kitchen can be cleaned up a little, I tend to want to throw everything into either the dishwasher or the garbage. Leftovers are quite handy to have, so I’ll make an exception and pack those up for the fridge, and there’s one other thing I’ll do [...]

Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat: Nourishing Traditions Soaked Buttermilk Bread (no. 7)

February 22nd, 2011 · 20 Comments · Recipes

I was almost certain this recipe would be a bust. I’m glad my bad attitude didn’t taint the whole process, because I have to say I was thoroughly surprised and impressed by the end result. I’d often heard of people having bad experiences with the baking recipes in particular in Nourishing Traditions, and I always [...]

Recipe Connection: How to Make Crispy (Soaked) Pumpkin Seeds

October 19th, 2010 · 19 Comments · Recipes

You can make soaked, “crispy” pumpkin seeds, Nourishing Traditions style, from your Halloween jack-o-lantern pumpkin seeds. Making pumpkin seeds hardly takes a recipe, and the soaking process will decrease nutrient inhibitors and increase nutrition immensely (see my series on soaking grains for more or grab the free soaked recipe eBook HERE). Other Halloween posts: Decorating [...]

Soaking Grains Anecdotes: Amy Makes Big Changes

July 13th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Big Changes, Special Situations

How do grains affect your system? All this week I’ll be sharing grains anecdotes from various people that demonstrate the health and wellness differences between various kinds of grains and preparation styles (white vs. whole, soaked vs. unsoaked vs. sourdough). Today’s story is from Amy, a KS reader: Seven years ago, my husband and I [...]

An Exploration of Soaking Grains: More Fallon/O’Brien Debate

May 13th, 2010 · 42 Comments · Science of Nutrition

Last week I offered all my brain could hold at once of the email conversations about soaking grains between Sally Fallon Morrell and Dr. Teri O’Brien of Australia. This week, there’s more… (By the way, to get a context for all of this, be sure to see the list of all the soaking grains posts, [...]

The Soaking Grains Debate: Meet the Experts

April 30th, 2010 · 32 Comments · Science of Nutrition

To soak or not to soak? Nope, this isn’t the definitive post (sorry to tease you!). I told you here that when you see a post titled “To Soak or Not to Soak” that I’m finished debating the soaking grains question. Today, I’m just inviting you into my document folders to introduce you to the [...]

How to Make Crispy Nuts to Reduce Phytic Acid

April 21st, 2010 · 65 Comments · Food for Thought, Recipes

Although I’ve been researching soaking grains (catch up on the posts here) like mad, I haven’t come across any particular research on phytic acid in nuts. If I defer to the phytic acid expert, Amanda Rose, she also claims there is not much food science on nuts, perhaps because grains are a bigger concern because [...]