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How to Make Dairy-Free Coconut Cream from a Young Thai Coconut

I love coconut! There are so many ways to use coconut in different recipes both sweet and savoury. If you have never used a young coconut have a little read about them. Also if you’ve never opened a young coconut, here is the tutorial I wrote on how to do that (click the small picture [...]

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How To Open A Young Thai Coconut (With Video & Pictures) + Info on Coconuts

Update 29/1/12: I originally posted this in 2009, but I’ve since updated the information and I’ve made a video! So I hope you enjoy this post! Why would you want to open a young thai coconut? Because then you can get to the coconut water and coconut meat! Coconut water from a fresh coconut is so [...]

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80+ Ways & Recipes To Use Milk Kefir

Got milk kefir? Not sure what to do with it? Here are 70+ ways & recipes to use it. Some things you should know: What kefir ? What are fermented foods? How to make milk kefir.  Storing kefir for ripening & reducing lactose Kefirpedia There are a lot of recipes around the internet for using the fermented milk [...]

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Recipe: Homemade Organic Kefir with Lemon Zest & Raspberries

What Is Kefir? Kefired milk (or Kefir; said as ke-fear), is the fermented dairy* product made from adding Kefir grains** (which are also known as Kefir; see picture above which shows kefir’s cauliflower-like appearance) into milk to ferment. The Kefir grains are a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast which exist on a structure of polysaccharide, protein, amino acids [...]

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Why Animals To Be Eaten Must Be Killed: An Excerpt From The Colonial Cook Book, The First Published Australian Cookbook

In my new blog Creative Vintage Lover*, I spoke about my favourite vintage cookbook (currently anyway), which is The Colonial Cook Book: The Recipes Of a By-Gone Australia By Paul Hamlyn. It is a reprint (from 1970) of the “first published Australian cook book”, originally published in 1864. As you can imagine it has a lot [...]

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Eat Real Food (It’s What Our Ancestors Did)

These days there seems to be plenty of food around, but it isn’t what I’d call real food, nor even food for that matter. The kind of food im talking about, which is most often found on our supermarkets & junk food “restaurants” can be thought of “edible food-like substances”, to quote Michael Pollan. Edible food-like substances [...]

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Fermented Foods: How To Prepare Kombucha Tea

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Kombucha Tea Kombucha tea is a refreshing, bubbly fermented tea historically from China, Russia & Germany (Greewalt et al, 2000). It is made from a Kombucha S.C.O.B.Y. /scoby. Scoby stands for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. It is also known as a ‘mushroom’ or ‘biofilm’. Kombucha tea is fermented which means that bacteria and [...]

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Recipe: Homemade Soaked Chickpea Hummus

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Recipe: Homemade Soaked Chickpea Hummus By request, here is my recipe for Soaked Chickpea Hummus. As you’ll see from the recipe below, it’s a pretty easy to whip together! I hope you enjoy it! Ingredients: 1 C. dried chickpeas (or 1 can of cooked chickpeas) optional: a strip of kombu 2 Tbs. tahini paste (hulled [...]

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7 Tips To Start The New Year Refreshed

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Need some motivation to get fit and healthy in the new year? Not sure where to start? Here are my top 7 tips to help get you feeling refreshed in the new year. 1- Relax Relaxation is so important to our health and well-being. So much so, that if we spend most of out time stressed it [...]

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How I Helped My Sister To Love Sauerkraut

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Here at healthfoodlover.com I try my best to present delicious recipes that you will want to eat and that are really good for you too! So I thought I would share a little story of how I helped to influence a family member to love sauerkraut, a very beneficial fermented food!  I’m not a mother, but [...]

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