"Since we spend approximately a thousand hours a year eating our meals, they should be pleasant hours."
Adelle Davis

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Green Wraps

Blanched, marinated,  or raw, collard leaves make delicious, healthy wraps.

I know a lot of people aren’t as delighted with a big ol’ mess of greens as I am, but here’s a different way to enjoy the tremendous health benefits of leafy greens.  Even if you don’t particularly care for  a bowl of greens, you might [...]

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Egg Fu

Egg Fu – the culinary equivalent of a martial arts move, like kung-fu, or chainsaw-fu, or kick-fu, or phonebook-fu.  Gotta whip up a meal fast and easy? Egg Fu!  Bust a shell!

Whenever you’ve got a little of this and a little of that, bits of leftovers, unused vegetables, stuff that has to be used up [...]

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Essene Bread

Sweet and moist, almost more like a dessert cake than bread you are used to, bread doesn’t get any simpler than this. Essene bread is made from sprouted grain, and nothing else.  No flour, no salt, no sugar, no yeast.  Just grain and the water the grain absorbed while it was sprouting.

Verily,  Wikipedia sayeth, “Of [...]

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Amaranth with Blueberries, 62¢

Delicious and nutritious. 62¢

Amaranth costs a lot more than oats ($1.99 a pound at Whole Foods), but I like to change it up and eat a wide variety. I cooked some amaranth last night and had some for breakfast this morning.  Amaranth is hip and trendy, like quinoa, but I try not to let [...]

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Three Cheap Breakfasts and Free Entertainment

OK, one of these is actually the snack I had just now, between breakfast and lunch – but it could be a breakfast.

I love oats for breakfast.  A lot of my friends do, too.  Personally, I like to eat them raw.  I eat old fashioned rolled oats, and I very rarely cook them.  I eat [...]

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