Hey everyone!  I've just discovered something ridiculously cool, and bonus - the thing I discovered makes a food you eat all the time tens and hundreds of times healthier!

I'm talking about sprouts.  Set your scepticism aside, if you can, and push the image of the crunchy hippie out of your head.  Sprouting wheatberries and certain beans is super easy and adds a nutritional blast to your meals.  Supposedly sprouting unlocks nutritients in the grains and beans that your body normally wouldn't be able to access in dried or cooked forms.  For nutritional specifics and also, for a list of beans that you shouldn't sprout, see this Wiki article. Read more...

In accordance with New Year's resolution #5, "I will make things from scratch", and also with New Year's resolution #1, "I will reduce waste in my kitchen", I bring you "garbage" pizza.

I've been reading other peoples' New Year's resolutions a lot lately and have also been inspired by someone saying that they wouldn't go out to eat if there was food in the fridge.  Tonight, I was tempted.  I fermented and cooked all day, and, frankly, I didn't really feel like doing anything else.  When I opened my fridge, though, I couldn't deny the fact that I had a lot of good food that was slowly getting... bad. Read more...