I’ve been dithering about whether on not to post this recipe for a few days now. It’s good, it’s reliable, but it isn’t fabulous. It is quick to put together and freezes well. It does use up leftovers. But what really tipped the scales in favour of posting is that it illustrates a basic veggie-burger…
Category: Recipes
Banana-Date-Pinto Bean Cookies (don’t knock’em ’til you try’em)
While I haven’t forgotten about the last installment of the articles on caffeine-containing herbs, I have had to temporarily put it on hold in order to prepare the cooking classes that I’ve been giving in the local community of late. This week’s class is on cooking with beans, above and beyond the pea soup and…
Herbal Stimulants Part 2: Other Caffeine-Containing Herbs – Tea, Maté & Cacao
Although coffee is the best known and doubtless one of the most popular of the caffeine-containing botanicals, it isn’t the only contributor. Many other plants have caffeine in their compositions, most of which are consumed for both medicinal and recreational reasons in the regions from which they hail. Nowadays in the global village, most are…
Roasted Mushroom & Fennel Soup (and a short rant on making and using medicinal mushroom broth)
If your interest is the rant on mushroom broth, then fast-forward yourself past the soup recipe. With regards to the soup recipe, it’s what happened when I wanted something decadent but healthy; healing without tasting ”herb-y” (or like something out of a seventies bean cook-book). I also wanted to clean out what was left in…
Herbal Candy – Techniques and Uses
Disclaimer: the following information is provided purely as brain candy to the herbal geek. Consult with a skilled herbalist prior to taking any plant-based medicine since it’s just that – medicine. Herbal candies are a wonderful way to make herbs something to look forward to and an easy way to get medicine into picky eaters and children. …
Riced Cauliflower Salad
When you’re home alone with the baby (or if you’re the only one in the house that eats vegetables), then a full head of cauliflower is a lot to get through. This salad is what happened as a result of wanting to save half a head of the stuff from certain doom as a compost…
Eating Organic Outside a City Center
Before getting into the heart of the issue on how to eat organic outside a big center, it’s worth mentioning that I haven’t always eaten organic (as much as possible). In fact, for most of my life it was far from a priority. In youth, spare cash was better spent on dying my hair a…
Black Chana Hummus
The first thing I learnt to make in the kitchen was hummus. It only involved the use of the food processor, a can opener and a knife: no crapping up my Mother’s oven range, no splattering the walls with the side effects of an enthusiastically but inexpertly wielded egg-beater. It was a perfect compromise in her…
Crunchy Cooking 