Cooking and Food

Did you make a batch of kefir only to find out that your kefir grains have multiplied and multiplied in the meantime? It happens all the time; these resilient little pearls can keep growing and keep multiplying as long as they have a little bit of food! That’s great, and sustainable, but before too long

Making kefir at home is really easy to do. But if you go overboard on making a batch, or you just want to take a break from drinking it for a little while, you don’t have to lose your grains and start over from scratch on the next batch… It turns out that kefir grains

It’s been pushed to the background with all of the scandals flying around lately, but as far as I’m concerned, one of the most worrying revelations is the fact that so much of what we use for food preparation and storage in our kitchens has probably been slowly poisoning us. It might be BPA and

We’ve all been there. You’re making your favorite pasta dish and you go to grab your batch of homemade tomato sauce or your favorite store-bought stuff, only to find that it’s expired or just too old. You give it a sniff and it smells okay, and it looks normal, but that won’t really tell you

Milk is high in calcium and other things that keep our bones strong and healthy; it’s also a favorite drink of sorts for many – Milo, anyone? A milkshake, perhaps? For all its popularity, milk has been getting steadily more expensive over the past few months and that got me thinking, how can we save

Cast iron cookware is here to stay. Whether you love it or hate it, and I hope you love it, more than any other this is one kind of cookware that has withstood the test of time. The “black iron” has been with us for centuries, and I hope it will be with us for

Many third-world country inhabitants have never been required to prepare a meal without a gas or electric stove. But for centuries, people have been baking bread, preparing fish, making jerky, cooking meat, and even making pizzas without electricity. As a keen outdoors woman/hiker/climber/canoeist/horse trail rider, I have often had to do without electricity for weeks

The grain has been a unit of measurement for centuries, and its history can be traced back to the Bronze Age, at least. Seldom used in daily affairs today, probably the only place you have seen this archaic unit of measurement used is in the weighing of bullets and arrows. How can we put the

If you are into an active life; running, hiking, cycling, or any other sport, you burn calories fast and need energy fast. Clif bars are designed to fuel your muscles for exercise that lasts for an hour or more. They should ideally be consumed 2 to 3 hours before you begin your exercise. They are