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Recipe Connection: Two HealthiER Birthday Cake Options from the KS Kids

August 13th, 2010 · 35 Comments · Kids in the Kitchen, recipes

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Let’s get the truth out right from the start: those doggone boxed cake mixes are moist and delicious, every time. They’re almost impossible to mess up. They’re also [...]

How to Sprout Whole Grains and Make Sprouted Flour in Bulk

June 14th, 2010 · 53 Comments · Do It Yourself

Mom of nine saves time and money sprouting own flour and baking bread!
Kimarie of Cardamom’s Pod joins us today with an amazing sprouted flour tutorial. My grandmother was a mother of nine who baked all her own bread (white flour, certainly, but made with love). I truly honor women like Kimarie and my Busia [...]

Phytic Acid in Rice Reduced 96% with Accelerated Fermentation

April 1st, 2010 · 23 Comments · Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition

Please catch up on all the soaking grains research for the scoop on phytates, phytic acid, phytase and more!
I’ve been looking for another “real scientist” to balance the Great Debate between Sally Fallon and my Australian PhD contact. Imagine my joy when I stumbled across Stephan Guyenet, Ph.D. a Senior fellow at the University of [...]

Sourdough Recipes Galore: Honey Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread

March 12th, 2010 · 39 Comments · Do It Yourself, recipes

Patience.
Patience is key when baking sourdough bread.
You have to wait for your starter to mature. You have to wait for the dough to rise. Sometimes you have to wait longer than the recipe says and beg a little. Sometimes you even have to wait to make loaf number one into croutons and then try [...]

Food for Thought: What is the Role of Phytase in Soaking Grains?

March 11th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition

As promised, I’ll feed you a little soaking grains research as I can unravel it. I have so many more journal articles to read, but I think I can at least define phytase and explain its definite and potential roles in phytate reduction.
What is phytase?
Phytase is an enzyme. An enzyme is a protein in a [...]

Sourdough Recipes Galore: Pizza Dough

March 10th, 2010 · 14 Comments · recipes

We’re sticking with sourdough recipes that don’t need as much rise for now, in case you’re still nurturing your baby sourdough starter and waiting for the bubbles you really want to see, like this:Look at the beautiful air pockets right through the side of the jar! This starter is ready to leaven some bread!
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Sourdough Recipes Galore: Sourdough Pancakes

March 9th, 2010 · 9 Comments · recipes

My very first attempt at baking anything with my new sourdough starter last fall was Sarah’s sourdough focaccia with her Best Ever Minestrone. It really doesn’t need to rise at all, which is good, because I don’t think mine did. I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven in an Italian restaurant, though, when we [...]

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