It’s close to lunch time and some warm spicy Indian food sounds so good. My favorite meal is Chicken Tikka Masala with steaming hot basmati rice specked with saffron, a side of paner kulcha (naan stuffed with cilantro and fresh…
Meatballs are usually not my favorite thing to make. They are time consuming, messy and usually don’t come out the way I want them too. The flip side to that is IF I don’t make them myself I’m almost guaranteed…
One of the most fun things about making your own kombucha is you get to flavor it any way you want. My mom came to stay with the girls a few weeks ago and decided to help them make an…
Between my mom, my daughters and my husband I’ve learned to acquire a taste for tea. So much so that I’ve started making home made kombucha. This is very different from steeped, warm tea, but it is tea nonetheless. Thanks…
A few months ago I discovered kombucha for the first time in person at a local Earth Fare market. It was on sale for $2.59 a bottle but the regular price was expensive for my taste at almost $4 a…
Thanks to Nutra Rise I received a bag of loose leaf white mulberry tea to try. My family loves tea and sometimes it’s difficult to find good tasting caffeine free teas which we can all use. Not only is white…
Recently, the subject of fermented foods has been of great interest to me. Other than wine, beer and saurkraut I had little experience with fermented foods and their benefits to the immune system. In the last month I started brewing…
In my recent search for new, non-dairy sources of probiotics I discovered kombucha and have grown to crave it. This is a problem. At $3 Plus per bottle trying to have enough around for at least 8 oz. per day,…
Kombucha tea is a fizzy probiotic beverage brewed with either black or green tea and at times flavored. What gives it it’s fizz and health benefits is something called a SCOBY or symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. The process…
A few years ago I started using coconut oil for the health benefits. It’s good for the skin, brain, metabolism and a natural antibiotic. The only problem I kept running into is that it had a distinct almost…
