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“Fries or Salad with your Filet Clone-non, Sir?”

“The End of Food” – is titled so appropriately in Thomas F. Pawlick’s 2006 expose of the state of our food supply (morbid but true). Enter – BGHs, GMOs, pesticides, synthetic chemicals, food additives, artificial colour, antibiotics, nitrates/nitrites, sulfites, refined, heavily processed, high fructose corn syrup-ed “food” (and the list goes on and on and on….) – is anything we are eating today truly “edible”?

Well on top of an already ridiculous amount of yummy chemicals and bio-engineered selections…let’s add animal clones to the mix!

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MMmmmm Quinoa…

Quinoa (pronounced Keen-wah…or Keen-WAH! for those very enthusiastic about it) made its debut in my life in Spring of 2009. It was love at first bite and we have been inseparable since. For those of you who’ve never been introduced, it is with great pleasure that I would like you to meet Quinoa…

Although quinoa is cooked and eaten as a grain, it is technically a seed that is closely related to spinach, chard and beets. Quinoa’s slight nutty taste, fluffy and crunchy texture, is completely unique from any other grain you’ve tried. This versatile “grain” can be eaten many ways – warm (e.g. porridge, stews, substitute for rice) or cold (e.g. salad, cereal) and can even be ground and used in baking – often seen in gluten-free treats.

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