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Shiitake mushrooms are loaded with chitosan, a natural component that is said to attract fat and cause it not to be turned into blubber on your thighs, hips or middle. They also have a lot of antioxidants. Plus they are delicious.

Creamy Mushroom Sauce
This sauce is exceptionally yummy on Vegetarian crepes! [...]

Aging is such a bitch. You hear terms like “healthy aging” but what it boils down to is at about 30 you start to decline, bit by bit, at first so slowly you don’t even notice, but gaining speed as you go. Muscle is lost, Bone becomes brittle, perceptual acuity is lost, speed, [...]

We have this early translucent apple tree.  It should have been all done by now but everything was late this year.  It was productive this season, thanks to some expert pruning, and what’s more, the coddling moths aren’t too bad this year.  So I’m trying to keep my front yard picked up.  These apples are [...]

Pictures of central old school food market in Monterrey, N.L. Mexico

amaranth
Originally uploaded by napiobai

This is the first post I am composing directly in FlickR— Woot! About eight years ago I planted some red amaranth in my garden. The fully mature red amaranth plant is a showy purple red affair with a large (OK I have to say this) phallic shaped seed cluster that [...]

Pictures from our local farmer’s market.  I got there a tad late, so a lot of the booths were looking kind of skimpy.  I still managed to pick up Maitake mushrooms and green snap peas and I’m so glad to see the market doing so well that the farmers don’t have much to take back [...]

There are SOOOO many good food blogs!   If I listed all of them down the sidebar you’d have to scroll south for quite a while, and that’s not nice.   If you’ll notice I have my blogroll categorized, so when you click the Vegan link a page pops up with all my vegan links.  [...]

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I always wondered why the miso soup in restaurants tasted so good and mine was just barely edible.  One day I observed that the miso soup at my favorite Japanese restaurant (Aomatsu) was lighter colored than the stuff that I made at home.   Next time I shopped for miso I got mild white miso instead [...]

Frederic Patenaude’s book “Sunfood Cuisine” is designed as a practical guide to assist people in going as raw-vegan as they want to go. I got this book as a result of hanging out at a band retreat with my paranoid raw vegan friend X (more adventures with X here), and at the time [...]