CHEESESLAVE

Oatmeal cookies are my father-in-law’s favorite thing in the whole wide world. He can’t live without them. But oatmeal is very high in phytic acid, which prevents mineral absorption. Minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc. I developed this recipe for oatmeal cookies in which the oatmeal is soaked in warm water and whey to help break down the phytic acid — so the precious minerals can be absorbed. Soaking also helps to make grains more digestible. This recipe does take more time to prepare than your standard oatmeal cookie recipe — but I feel it is worth it for the health benefits.

Another video from the Weston A. Price Foundation Wise Traditions 2008 conference in San Francisco. This is the second of three parts of Sally Fallon’s fascinating lecture, “Nourishing Traditional Diets”
In this excerpt, Sally talks about why it’s important to soak grains, seeds and nuts and why this was done all over the world in traditional [...]

More photos from our trip up to Berkeley to volunteer at Three Stone Hearth, the community supported kitchen…
Here’s Larry with his fermented drinks.

He makes beet kvass, kombucha and soda pops and coolers made with whey or kefir grains.
Here’s the beet kvass — 80 quarts worth — fermenting in a stainless steel vessel normally used for [...]

I’m making:
Lasagna (made with organic grass-fed beef, tomato sauce, rice pasta, and freshly grated ricotta, mozzarella and Parmesan cheese)
Garden Cress, Tomato, and Fennel Salad (with oil and vinegar dressing)
Chocolate Ice Cream (made with Organic Pastures chocolate colostrum milk and raw pastured egg yolks)
I’m fairly new to this traditional foods way of eating. It’s much more [...]

Seth is out of town — on a business trip in San Francisco. My best friend Sarah and her dear sister Emily came over for dinner tonight.
Since I was busy all day helping Seth get on the road (working on a Keynote deck for his pitch to HP, booking his hotel, getting his clothes washed, [...]

I had a very interesting conversation this morning with our nanny, Yensi.
She told me that her husband asked why our daughter Kate is so much bigger than their daughter, Julianna. He had watched the videos of the two girls on YouTube.
Julianna is 15 months and Kate is only 10 months. Julianna is only 20 pounds. [...]