Apricot Kernels and vitamin b17

Know what these are? Apricot pits. We found yummy organic apricots at our health food store, reasonably priced, on our last errand day. We ate them in the car and saved the pits in a baggie to take home and crack open. I learned about apricot kernels, B17, and cancer...

Falafel with tahini sauce

It might be a first, but I actually followed the recipe for this. Falafel on page 506 of Nourishing Traditions, tahini sauce on page 148.We plan on making this a regular part of our menu now, it was liked by everyone. We generally do the bulk of our cooking on...

Beet Kvass- How to make (With Pictures)

At first I wasn’t sure what I thought of beet kvass, and I origionally bought the beets to do pickled beets. But that required baking them for 3 hours and it’s hot- didn’t want the oven going for 3 hours. Beet kvass, like all the lactofermented...

Cream Cheese and Whey from Yogurt

Getting whey and cream cheese (above) from yogurt (below). You can totally use store bought yogurt for this, it’s just less expensive to make your own. I did this last summer quite a bit with regular Walmart (it was hormone free, but that’s about all it...

Stevia

I had been wanting to try stevia for a while, and when a friend told me last summer that they have Crystal Lite type things with stevia instead of nutrasweet in Walmart, I thought that was my chance. They were Zingers made by Celestial Seasonings and in the tea isle....