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Getting Started Sprouting Wheat Berries

April 26, 2011
Raw Wheat Berries in Jar

Written by Sherrie Cook, Contributing Writer
Sprouting is becoming a popular nutritional step in many homes now. I've read about it in gardening books and heard rumor of it in blogs.  The news intrigued me.  I decided to try it because really, it couldn't be that difficult.  And boy was I ever...RIGHT!  It's not challenging at [...]

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Simple Ways to Improve your Digestion and Gut Health

March 25, 2010
making kefir

Image by David Niergarth
"We tend to take our gut for granted, and it costs us dearly. We continually eat wrong foods that are rarely digested properly. The by-products of incomplete digestion clog the gut with accumulated debris. This coating becomes a perfect breeding ground for dangerous forms of bacteria and other microorganisms." Jordan Rubin, The [...]

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Taking the Mystery Out of Creme Fraiche (What It Is and How to Make It)

February 15, 2010
buttermilk-for-creme-fraiche

I love to say it. Creme Fraiche (pronounced "crem fresh").
There's something so gourmet and cultured sounding about it (no pun intended!), and yet it is one of the simplest types of cultured dairy that you can make. Basically, creme fraiche is cultured cream. It's that simple.
For some reason I held off trying it out for [...]

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