It started out as a project to make almond milk. Drinking commercial plant based milks have become too difficult for my body to absorb. Simply put, I feel sick to my stomach after drinking them. Perhaps it is the gums and additives. For years, I tried most of these...
Food
It Might Not Be Mine To Keep!
It had been sitting on a garage shelf and had not seen the light of day for perhaps decades. In fact it had been forgotten until I mentioned using one of its relatives to do some food experimenting. I am talking about a food dehydrator, one from the 1970’s...
Sharing In A Time of Turmoil
I couldn’t believe how she knew but she did. It was the neighbor across the street. Every time I was having a bad or challenging day she called to tell me that she had some beans and rice or some enchiladas for me. All I had to was go...
My Chocolate Mistake
So, I gathered a little courage and took the ingredients out of the cupboard, placed them into a pan and heated and stirred until everything dissolved into liquid. I greased a large glass dish and poured the chocolate mixture into the glass dish. I could almost taste the chocolate....
Peanuts Anyone?
I having seen his birth date listed as somewhere around 1860’s near the end of the civil War. He passed away in January of 1943. You may know him for one thing. Believed in Spirits He may never have used the word intuition. He did believe in spirits and...
His Intuition Told Him To Tell Me
I was recently purchased avocados and some greens at a farmers’ market and was about to leave the vendor’s table. The vendor, a short man with lucid blue eyes, looked at me as he handed over the chives. “You can cut off the bottoms and plant them” he said....
The Chocolate That Wasn’t
The cocoa butter plastic container sat on the first shelf of the kitchen cupboard for many months before I opened it. The small plastic container made its way down from the shelf to the kitchen counter several times to no avail. It didn’t see the daylight of the kitchen...
The Carrot That Changed My Mind!
Who would think that a carrot, a commonly eaten vegetable, could change one’s mind, my mind? Well, it did. It happened one day while I was at a farmer’s market and walked past a vendor who was selling vegetables. The sign behind him read “organic” so I asked him. ...
The Chicken Soup That Wasn’t!
It had all the normal ingredients that I normally use, including, chicken bones and meat, garlic, onion, salt, pepper, bay leaf, sage, and oregano and plenty of water. Opps I forgot to mention the parsley that was tossed into the pan just before placing the lid on it. Although...
Give Her The Tomato!
That is what I wanted to say but didn’t. It wasn’t my business. I didn’t hear the entire conversation between the woman at the farmer’s market and the vendor. I saw the vendor taking some paper that looked like coupons in exchange for produce. The buyer had a large...