Practical Eating
Practical Eating
Wild and Foraged Food Guide for a Tasty and Feral Spring
Attention Feralicious Challengers! Our friends over at the kitchn have put together a guide to foraging, the perfect compliment to the Eat Wild feat. Berries, dandelion greens, gingko nuts, edible flowers, ramps, lotus roots, prickly pear fruit...the beautiful wild options go on and on. Click through for info galore on foraging hot spots for dozens of foods and important details for ensuring your edible finds are safe.
Elixirs
Super Simple Goji Juice
Dried goji berries are subtle, sweet, high in antioxidants, and great at helping balance out blood sugar levels. I love mixing them with nuts, adding them to tea, mixing them in with salad, throwing them in organic goat milk yogurt, or blending them into smoothies. But "Goji Juice" may be my very favorite use of them. It's a basic goji-berry-infused water, but the berries give the water a pretty pink color and a gentle sweetness, and I'm nourishing my body. Goji Juice is a great base for smoothies, salad dressings, and all sorts of other creative kitchen concoctions too. Here's the recipe.
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Joni Surette Nelson Makes Ratatouille for Babies
[The Love Challenge's Love Belly Feat asks to to prepare and enjoy One Wild Meal. Obvious takes on this include oysters, kumquats, moonlight...you get the idea. But another perhaps less obvious option: Prepare a special meal for your baby. Not your metaphorical baby. Your actual baby. Nieces, nephews, friends' babies, neighbors' babies...all legit options. And just because you're not personally eating the meal doesn't mean you won't enjoy it. Gurgling is a very satisfying thank you -the Eds.]
Joni Surette Nelson is the creator of the blog, "Feeding Little Foodies," and leads workshops on preparing fresh and nutritious meals for babies in Los Angeles.
Why homemade baby food? It's fresh, delicious, nutritious, wholesome, and made with love. And once I rolled up my sleeves, peeled a piece of produce or two, and gave that processor a whirl, I was shockingly surprised by how easy, fun, cheap and delicious making my own baby food was. And once I had developed my own little system, I couldn't imagine feeding my baby anything else.
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Scientific
White Rye and Baked Rhubarb Are Magic Foods
- Wheat bread isn't always better. New research shows that white rye bread, made with the inner part of the grain kernel rather than the husk, is actually better at maintaining blood sugar levels than wheat bread.
- Baked rhubarb fights cancer, new studies show. The effects are so powerful, in fact, that researchers are looking into combining chemotherapy agents and the cancer-fighting polyphenols from baked rhubarb to treat leukemia.
Practical Drinking
The Lemon-Ginger-Garlic-Pepper Winter Health Savior
Here at Social Workout HQ, we all have colds. Our landlord, co-founder of Flavorpill Sascha Lewis, is among the afflicted, and while some of us are drinking nasty, chemically-flavored Theraflu, Sascha, ever the natural wellness guru, is drinking a concoction of lemon, ginger, garlic, and cayenne pepper. He's the first to admit that the brew is aggressive in flavor, but you get what you pay for it, and what you're paying for here is power passage clearing effects. Sascha got the recipe from his friend Aarona, who got it from Jena at Jena Wellness, and we're passing it along in a similar friend-to-friend fashion. To all of you currently ailing, drink up and get well soon! Full recipe after the jump.
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