Growing sprouts is fun and easy!

Sprouts are inexpensive and easy and quick to grow - makes for a fun project with your kids as well! Ann Wigmore, author of 'The Sprouting Book' started growing them many years ago to relieve her colitis symptoms and she states in the book that by eating sprouts and greens, she healed her body of colitis and arthritis!.

Long, but lovely day in the kitchen

Look what I created on one crispy day - beautiful plain and poppyseed whole wheat breads - I tried a new recipe from the Tassajara Bread Book by Edward Espe Brown - was delicious, worth the time it took!

Also, made an autumn-coloured Fall Pinto Bean & Yam Soup from the book 'The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook' by Alissa Segersten - you should have smelled the house! Some of the good digestion ingredients were pinto beans, garlic, onion, yams, carrots, cumin, and paprika. It tasted absolutely heavenly and luckily there was a little bit left over for lunch the next day...

Moving the gardening fun indoors...

These pictures were only taken 1-2 weeks ago and you wouldn't believe how different the garden looks already after a couple of nights of frosty temperatures! So frosty that I created some gardening fun indoors today - I put up some alfalfa sprouts and then made blue elderberry syrup for the upcoming winter colds. The recipe is in Rosemary Gladstar's book 'Family Herbal' - she makes it very clear to never eat elderberries that haven't been cooked first - good to know! The finished product makes a beautiful colourful addition to my fridge...