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Between my farmers market experience and Joy blogging about cashew-oat milk, I decided to try my hand at making cashew cream. At first I wasn’t sure what to make with it. Should I make a dip? Or just nut milk? But in the end I decided it would be fun to try a cheesecake. I [...]
Now that I’m on two liquid meals a day I figured it was time to break out the juicer. This thing is powerful. When you turn it on it sounds like a lawnmower. It’s a little scary, but it does the job. What comes out is a little scary, too. First it’s this multilayered colorful [...]
The weekend was pretty brutal. I must have been detoxing from something because I had a throbbing headache, sore throat, and a low fever. I didn’t want to do anything but rest. The book tells you not to take pills for headaches, so I just had to ride it out. At times I felt like [...]
I still haven’t technically started the cleanse part of the cleanse yet, but I’ve definitely changed my eating habits in a big way this week. The biggest thing I notice (and it was the same when I tried a raw foods experiment) is just how colorful every meal is. I think if you take nothing [...]
I realized the other day that I have never made salsa before. Mike used to make a delish black bean salsa in the summertime, but since he’s been super busy, tomato duty has fallen to me. So, I dug out a recipe I took from the Boulder farmers market back in 2005 and adapted it [...]
I learned how to make these when I was writing a story about raw food diets. They’re sort of like an energy bar that actually tastes good. The closest thing I could compare them to is a Larabar. They’re basically just nuts, dried fruit and coconut blended up in the food processor. If you want [...]
Because Mike and I felt like having a little fiesta in this 30-below weather, and because avocados were so surprisingly ripe at Hy-Vee today, I give you the only recipe for guacamole you’ll ever need. But first! I give you my most frequently used spice blend, which you’ll need for this recipe, and it goes [...]
Two of my crochet patterns — vintage hanger covers and a colorful granny square pillow — have been published in a new book. You can now order So Pretty! Crochet, by my talented friend Amy Palanjian, at Amazon.com. 
