Summer may feel over after Labor Day weekend, but seasonally many summer veggies are still growing strong here in SoCal, including green zucchini. This season I’ve been growing a bunch of summer squash varieties that I’ve mainly been slicing up and freezing for future meals, but I’ve also used a lot of the green zucchini to … Read More...
A few days ago I was excited to be able to harvest my first official garden haul of the Spring that included different lettuce, kale & chard varieties, strawberries, cilantro & cilantro flowers, and a bunch of beautiful carrots. I started planting this year around the end of February and early March, and then all of sudden … Read More...
Happy Holidays to you! Wow, is it me, or did December just fly by… Christmas is in a few days?! I’m horrible when it comes to last minute Christmas shopping (read: still have most of my shopping to do this evening!), planning festivities, cooking, etc. Luckily this year for family Christmas festivities I’m on cookie … Read More...
The winter holiday season is here and that means holiday flavors and cookies (everywhere). But that also means extra empty calories everywhere provoking us to nibble where we find ourselves having to balance those two little voices in our heads- “you can have just one” vs. “no, I’m trying not to be a fatty no … Read More...
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday weekend. I got to take some time off and spend it with family, including my little niece from New Zealand who I had a lot of fun with. I also got a chance to get busy in the kitchen adapting my real food remix raw bread recipe into … Read More...
One of my all-time favorite foods is bread, but like many of our favorite foods, not always the best for us when it comes to our health – especially what’s available as our options today. As most of us know, most all bread is a processed food-like product, it’s not real food (we don’t find … Read More...
What’s good my friends?! I hope everyone had a fun 4th of July weekend who celebrated. I was able to take a few days off to relax and recharge, including spending some time in the garden setting up a new cinder block bed (cheapest way to build a garden bed and grow food for ~$1.75/block), … Read More...
One of my favorite nuts that often times can be forgotten when it comes to making homemade nut milk is the pistachio; a little powerhouse raw nut full of nutrition. I’ve made almost every other kind of raw nut milk before, but I had never tackled pistachio milk… so we gave it a go. This … Read More...
The winter holiday season is definitely a time where there are a lot of sweets, desserts, candy, etc floating around. This is one of the reasons I put together the real food remix desserts book download to give us all some ideas on healthier dessert options we could make this holiday season. During the holidays I … Read More...
Day 5 of our Real Food Remix holiday edition: tasty recipes utilizing real food ingredients so you have some ideas for healthy desserts this holiday season. So far we’ve looked at recipes for: Raw Pistachio Cream Pie Paleo Eggnog Paleo Eggnog Cream Pie and Raw Winter Spiced Snowballs Today, we’re going to tackle one of … Read More...
