Eat More Kale
mao.farm080213 Originally uploaded by macro808 Wouldn’t the world be a better place if only we enjoyed such delicious life giving lacinato kale as this?!
Local Organic Farm 2
Local Organic Farm Originally uploaded by macro808 Here’s another photo on a different day. It just blows my mind how beautiful it is, and believe me, you can feel this energy when you eat it picked fresh that day. This is a field of lacinato kale. Yummy! Eat more kale!
Local Organic Farm
Local Organic Farm Originally uploaded by macro808 For our Vegan Macro Community Dinner, we serve greens from this local farm. Look how it’s vibrating with energy! You take in that energy when you eat these luscious greens.
Verne Varona’s Top Ten Sugar Craving Strategies
The following could be individual or collective reasons for sugar cravings. Read each suggestion and notice how it applies to your eating or lifestyle. Reducing your desire or addiction for sugar should not require Herculean will power. Becoming conscious of the physiological and lifestyle factors that stimulate sugar cravings should make taming your sweet tooth [...]
Naturally Sweet Holidays
Healthy alternatives to refined sugar abound. Several natural sweeteners even add some nutrients. Maple syrup contains calcium and potassium, while blackstrap molasses offers calcium and iron, for example. Found in natural products stores, grain-based liquid sweeteners, including amasake from rice, rice syrup, barley malt, and sorghum syrup contain some of the nutrients found in whole [...]
Improving Allergies with a Macrobiotic Diet
When we fill our bodies with toxins and extreme foods, our bodies are unable to detoxify. Suddenly, our body becomes imbalanced and unable to ward off disease. When a person becomes ill, it means some imbalance can be found in the body. Our bodies can only stand so much before they break down. When we [...]
tempeh crab cakes
tempeh crab cakes Originally uploaded by macro808 The new cookbook from Eric and Sanae (Love, Eric and Sanae) has some really yummy looking food in it, so this was an additional recipe that I experimented with over the weekend. The topping is a sundried tomato and basil aioli sauce. I put my hijiki dish over [...]
cinnamon rolls
cinnamon rolls Originally uploaded by macro808 So the raisins I had sitting on my counter fermented into this bubbly stuff. Very fascinating to watch!! I kneaded the dough and let it rise overnight, but it may have needed a warmer spot so that it could have risen a bit more. I also forgot to add [...]
Trying some fermentation
When I went to the KI this summer, I finally purchased this great book about fermenting (Wild Fermentation I think it’s called) that everyone raves about, with recipes for things like honey wine, kimchee, amazake, and much more. I also received this amazing book called Macrobiotic Breads and Sweets as a gift from a Japanese [...]
plum perfect
plum perfect Originally uploaded by macro808 I was messing around with new recipes and this was the result. I spiced it with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. YUMMY! It was delicious for breakfast.
