Earthy, spicy Indian food – mmm…mmm…good!
Do you love the earthy, spicy texture and flavor of Indian food as I do? I used to run down to my corner on Devon Ave. in Chicago for delicious Indian food any day of the week I wanted some. These days
On Vegetating
On Vegetating
I like food, plant food, that is — I like to plant, grow and eat it. I like to serve it to others and recycle it to contribute to next year’s harvest. I like working and being outdoors, walking and hiking. I like to study Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, especially the first five books, the Torah. Most of all, I like to think about all these things and what they have to say about the meaning of life. I started my blog when I decided to explore veganism, and it has led not just to recipes and farming but to taking a look at the Hebrew Bible from a different perspective. It also gave me a chance to study the biblical perspective on modern themes like ethics, ecology, evolution, animal rights, and the human place in creation. I explore and refresh my own spirituality through these projects.
Moroccan Eggplant Salad
It’s amazing how much people like this salad! I used to have people tell me they had been up all night obsessing about it and drove a long way to get some. Ingredients Eggplant, 3 large Salt, 1 TB Garlic, 3-4 cloves,
3D Printing: Coming Soon to Kitchens Everywhere
Post published 4/13/2015 in 3duniverse. How 3D printing freed the slave in my kitchen I’m a foodie, and I love to cook. Naturally all the buzz about 3D printed food stimulated my curiosity. I have discovered very interesting possibilities and wonderfully useful applications
Practising for summer: Pickles!
Fermented foods: enjoy some every day Many of you are probably getting underway with your summer gardening plans. Be sure your plan includes things you can pickle! Fermented foods are great for you. And there’s one quick and easy way to make
Sugar: Healthy or at least not unhealthy. Really?
Two of my favorite articles on this topic: From Mother Earth News From Michael Pollan
How does your garden grow? This year with 3D printing
Published 4/10/2015 in 3duniverse.org. No soil, no sun, no water, no problem with 3D printing I keep telling myself that spring is on the way. Some days it even feels like it’s here. That must mean it’s time to get underway with
5 Reasons Vegans Shouldn’t Publish Disturbing Animal Pictures
Last week I got into a FaceBook discussion with someone who posted a picture that was disturbing to me, a pregnant cow whose throat was being cut. I never, ever look at these pictures and have several times unfriended and unfollowed those
Food with meaning
Published 4/23/2015 in The FOODshed Coop blog. When I first started in the food business with the intention of making all my food “from scratch,” from whole produce (which I was told couldn’t be done), someone told me about the Slow Food movement. The
Vegan Matzah Ball Soup for Passover – or anytime!
This year was my first vegan Seder. The seder wasn’t all that difficult since I had offered vegetarian sedarim to my protesting non-vegetarian family for years. This was just another step. My son’s comment was, “Vegetarian seders have been . . .
The FoodShed: Cooperative Transformation
Published 4/2/2015 in The FOODshed Coop blog. I admit I am something of a skeptic about the possibility of experiencing sudden (and lasting) transformation. That’s not to say I don’t believe in the possibility that we can be transformed. I experience that