“Though we can’t always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves.” — Swami Satchidananda syn·chro·nic·i·ty/ˌsiNGkrəˈnisitē/ Yesterday I was planning for the Mexican themed dinner party I was having and needed to find a salad. As I scoured the internet for recipes I remembered a chunky little salad my mom makes with corn and beans. “What was that salad???” I thought as I landed on pinterest.com. Amazingly, smack dab in the middle of the pinterest front page, was a glorious picture of Cowboy Caviar- the exact salad I was looking for. “Ah! synchronicity I guess I was meant…
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Posts from the “I Seriously Didn’t Know That” Category
In case you are wondering, no, I haven’t returned from my stay on the moon. I am still in the atmosphere and most likely will not be coming home soon. My name is Foraging Squirrel and I am a space cadet. Did I or did I not just write a post about BPA? Yes, yes I did. And did I or did I not just go out and buy a plastic electric kettle? Yes, yes I did. And did my husband (whom I am now calling “Putti”- see angel post-) have to tell me that boiling water in a plastic kettle means BPA’s will seep in to my water? Yes! Putti had to tell me that. Dang it! “wooooshhh” that is what the inside…
I had an “I seriously didn’t know that” moment about three years ago when I read the book The China Study. Since then, though I’ve tried, It’s been hard to ignore the book’s findings: “People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease … People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. These results could not be ignored,” said Dr. Campbell. In The China Study, Dr. Campbell details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, and also its ability to reduce or reverse the risk or effects of these deadly illnesses. The China Study also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities, and irresponsible scientists.…
I know many people more health savvy than I have been eating Quinoa for quite a while now. However, I’m willing to bet that there are a lot of people just like me who are a little late to the party. The following videos give a great rundown on Quinoa and it’s preparation!
I work on the weekends which means I miss an endless stream of birthday parties, play-dates, BBQ’s, sporting events and even more birthday parties. I’m supposed to be working right now in fact, but instead of earning money so that our house doesn’t fall into foreclosure, I’m writing about Baked Beans! Hell ya- take that fate! I would like to say I get terribly disappointed when I am forced to stay at home and work while everyone else plays but I am usually terribly glad. It’s just much more pleasant for me to talk to my computer than watch the b-day boy jump around inside a giant blown up clown while I try unsuccessfully to make small talk with a mom from PTA. Nothing…
Grano Farro has a long and glorious history: it is the original grain from which all others derive, and fed the Mediterranean and Near Eastern populations for thousands of years; somewhat more recently it was the standard ration of the Roman Legions that expanded throughout the Western World. Ground into a paste and cooked, it was also the primary ingredient in puls, the polenta eaten for centuries by the Roman poor. Important as it was, however, it was difficult to work and produced low yields. In the centuries following the fall of the Empire, higher-yielding grains were developed and farro’s cultivation dwindled: By the turn of the century in Italy there were a few hundreds of acres of fields scattered over the regions of…
