Ok first off, sorry for being MIA to this blog for so long! My only excuse is that during spring and summer, I tend to blog less as I’m occupied elsewhere. So forgive me if posts are few & far between between now & fall. But I had to write today my quest for a [...]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day…lovely day for a Guinness, isn’t it? Is a Guinness “real food?” People do claim that it is a full meal in a glass. It’s fermented, although I’ve yet to hear of raw Guinness (could be interesting though, right?). It’s made with real ingredients. However, today’s Guinness is put through a bit [...]

Let me say right now that I think bone broth is the easiest, most delicious, and most cost-effective way of improving and maintaining health; it is true kitchen alchemy, the power of the hearth at work. I’m going to write soon about that power in more detail, but for today I’ll just focus on another [...]

I’m working on some posts about where to start if you’re new to real food, and also where to start if you’re not “into” real food yet but want to fend off sickness and feel a bit better. I decided to write these last night when a friend asked about keeping illnesses at bay (since [...]

This post originally appeared on my other blog, Avidly Dreaming. Ok. So. I finally got my hands on a copy of Nourishing Traditions. I have this post by Katie at Kitchen Stewardship bookmarked & referenced. I’ve been really looking forward to making my own bone broth/stock the real way, full of all the goodies that [...]