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Stupendous Soups and Stews!
December 09th, 2010 // Cooking, Nutrition
Winter is fast approaching and in Vancouver, we have had some real winter weather for the first time in a few years already!
One of the best things about this season for me is warm, nourishing and easy to digest soup! Soup is one of the most creative meals, you can have a different soup every day all season. My favorite this year is Mushroom Barley.
I was having a conversation recently about how great soup is with my friend Annette, who happens to be a Holistic Nutritionalist. She taught me some easy tips on making my own veggie soup broth:
-When cooking veggies, save ends in a container in the freezer
-When container is full, boil with lots of water in large pot
-Put boiled veggie ends in compost *bonus points: veggies get double use before returning to the earth AND are easier to compost
-Freeze stock for soup cooking days as needed
-Repeat these steps and always have soup stock available for quick and easy, homemade soup cooking!
Just for fun and my love of soup, here is a poem written about soup by my good friend and very talented musician, Henry.
Soup
soup she comes spitting fire
slurping down the bitter root
then the stock becomes much thicker
softening gently the starchy fruit
from kingdom come
comes tomato cans
marching down the alley way
sitting nicely upon your hand
the juice comes out
sporting shades
and bends down through
the chinese maze
susans cat feels much better
it’s the bitter end of a long
drawn out
sickness
Henry of Henry and the Nightcrawlers
Enjoy!
Love,
S
Hunter Gather
August 02nd, 2010 // Cooking, Feminine-ist, Love, Nutrition, Textiles
Healthy eating and the digestion of food into energy, naturally follow being in a space of self-love. A city like Vancouver in 2010 offers infinite choices of what and how to eat. An array of ethnic cuisine plus a bundle of social and lifestyle options are available to us anytime. Organic, fair trade or local? Vegetarian, vegan or raw? Gluten-free, sugar-free, dairy-free?
I am currently reading the Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollen. It offers great insight into what we are eating and the journey of our food to our plates. Today, most people have become removed a few degrees from the process of harvesting and gathering their own food. The faster life gets the larger the gap between foods source and our mouths becomes. As we move this direction, I wish to reconnect with our ancestral roots as hunter-gatherers. Summer is here and I have been harvesting plenty of food from the garden and picking wild berries.
Many of my family members go hunting annually for deer, moose and elk and I will be joining in a deer hunt with my uncle this fall. As a flexitarian, I choose to eat wild meat because it helps my body to thrive and I feel the animal has the richest life. As a yoga teacher I have encountered controversy around these choices. I believe when honored, respected, loved, thanked and used to continue on ongoing creative cycle an omnivore diet is in integrity with spirit. After the hunt, my uncle will give the horns and hooves to a local chief to use as medicine in ceremony and I will do my best to cure the hide.
Every choice has a consequence and I want to be conscious of the relationship I have with my food.
Love well,
Sara
xoxo