How to Make Your Own Homemade Nut Milk

I’ve been making my own nut milks for years, but it wasn’t until recently (as soon as I let go of my raw cow milk share) that I needed a healthy, sustainable solution for my daily green smoothies. Sure, I can buy nut milks in those asceptic containers from the alternative milk aisle, but I [...]

The Poop Scoop – A Guide to Healthy Poops

High-Fiber Recipes Below! Not much older than eleven or twelve, my friend had us in stitches after her first day of her new babysitting gig: The mom came home and asked if the child had a BM while she was gone. Intuiting that the mom must have been referring to ‘poop’ but never having heard [...]

Coo Coo for Coconuts

How to Open a Coconut and Coconut recipes below! Somewhere in the 50′s, coconut oil got a bad rap due to its high levels of saturated fats. Coconut oil does indeed have the highest content of saturated fat of all the vegetable oils. With fat phobia prevalent in the West, it’s not surprising that coconuts [...]

A Tale of Indigestion — It All Starts in the Stomach

“Try taking a stomach acid supplement”, offered a colleague when I expressed a need for reprieve from my chronic indigestion. “Nah”, I retorted, “my digestive troubles are deep in my gut, not my stomach”. I thought my statement was accurate, for I rarely observed pain, burning or heartburn in or around my stomach. I always [...]

Fish Schooling – How to Cook a Whole Fish

Although there might be something intimidating for you about cooking a fish whole — head, tail, skin and all — I assure you that the process is easy. It’s actually hard to flub up, as the delicate meat is enveloped in a protective layer of skin. And… if you’re up to the gills with the [...]