Filed under: Gardening
Filed under: Food for the table, Food for thought, Gardening, Local Food, Mental Health Insights & Issues, Well Being
Filed under: Food for the table
Today is a good day my friends. Oh, yes. A fine day. A day that will probably go down in culinary history as “Muffin in the Sun” Day. Or perhaps not, as, said aloud, that phrase generates a certain ambiguity as to the significance of the day. And it is in fact, Monday. To be clear, perhaps, I should say “Muffin in the Sun (on Monday) Day” but I’ve not managed to articulate verbally, parentheses. I digress. Back to the major announcement of this very good day. Muffin Day.
Elsie has the story.
Filed under: Addiction, Body Image, Fat Acceptance, Food for the table, Food for thought, Mental Health Insights & Issues, Well Being
I remember my vegan dreams of a food forest. What remains?
This lovely entry at Hunt. Gather. Love. inspired me. Oh, chanterelles…
In our garden we have a little citrus orchard beginning of lemon, grapefruit, orange and cumquat; we should add Tahitian lime and the Australian finger lime and the Buddha’s Hand. Last weekend we planted a black mulberry down the back, the same kind as my Nana had in her back yard, the kind I loved to climb with purple-stained hands. We planted an almond tree down the back as well, papershell. In the front against the fence I have two deciduous trees, a pear and a prune, and I plan to espalier them against the fence and add cherries.
We have raspberry canes and we’ve planted a currant bush, cape gooseberry, and lingon berry. Next autumn I should plant blueberries. Blackberries grow wild and sweet here, but we could plant some boyson berries to add to the mix.
Filed under: Body Image, Elsie Hogfat, Fat Acceptance, Food for the table, Food for thought, Nutrition Theories
Filed under: Elsie Hogfat, Food for the table, Mental Health Insights & Issues, Nutrition Theories, Well Being
If carbohydrate malabsorption is linked to depression as suggested here, and with a pretty clear causal pathway outlined in the abstract;
“Incompletely absorbed sugars may form nonabsorbable complexes with tryptophan, an amino acid precursor of serotonin, decreasing its availability. As serotonin is the most important neurotransmitter involved in depressive disorders, its depletion could lead to the onset of depression.”
then mystery solv-ed!
Yesterday I had my oh-so-familiar onset of the afternoon blues. It arrived at 4.10pm and lasted about 10 minutes.
AMAZING!!!
At this point in the Elsie Hogfat experiment I can say with confidence that I don’t think we’ll ever go back to eating sugar and flour again.
At Fathead I found an amazing story about a police raid on an organic food co-operative in California.
Here’s the post;
Raw Milk Gets Another Raw Deal.
Note: Tom Naughton & I don’t always agree in terms of politics and he does warn readers this in one of his political soap box posts, but I think we can all agree that an armed raid on an organic food co-operative on account of some very suspicious jugs of raw milk is a little heavy handed…
I posted the youtube link over at Karri Country Good Food.
Could it happen here?
Filed under: Elsie Hogfat, Food for the table, Food for thought, Nutrition Theories
