Topic: food

Lactofermentation

✍ 12 Aug 2024

Lactofermentation is a simple, cheap and healthy way of preserving vegetables. Sauerkraut and Korean kimchi are examples, but you can do it with almost any vegetable. I'll show you everything you need to know and much more... Read more about Lactofermentation

7 Apr 2024

A little horror story

My little horror story can't compete with the gruesomeness of a horror film. But it has its own charm because it comes from my real life. It happened last evening.

Under the mulberry tree

It occurs to me to eat mulberries. I go to the big mulberry tree. It already has plenty of ripe mulberries, the tastiest ones are almost black, but they can also be slightly lighter in colour, like amaranth purple. I discover that there are already quite a few lying on the floor. Most of them are even riper and tastier. Sometimes I blow them off before putting them in my mouth. But herbs grow under the tree, so the mulberries are usually clean. And I'm hungry, the rhythm of my movements speeds up...

Out and back in again

Suddenly the contents of my mouth return to the ground in the herbs at an even greater speed. I feel something in my mouth, it doesn't come out. It's probably a small animal, it has bitten into the skin quite far back, close to the palate. I try to get it out with a sharp stream of air, but I don't succeed. Now I put the mulberries back from the ground into my mouth. I hope that the little animal slips into my stomach with the food.

It doesn't come out

After I've eaten enough mulberries, I can still feel the animal close to the roof of my mouth. In our hut, I try to reach it with a finger, then with a spoon handle, but I don't succeed. Well, I'll go to sleep with it if I have to, the skin will get rid of the little beast. But I would still like to know what it is. One more attempt, mouth wide open, right index finger deep inside - I've got it and manage to get it out of my mouth! And what do I see now? A dead ant! Conclusion: Better to eat a little slower!

Former experiences

I sometimes eat ants on purpose, but then move them back and forth in my mouth with my tongue so they can't bite. Once a Green Shield Bug got into my mouth with the wild plants I was eating. It released an unpleasant-tasting secretion, it tasted similar to coriander but much hotter. I automatically spat it all out again - and watched the green bug run away.

Our fruits

Update 9 Oct 2023

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Do you know Sapote blanco? Pitanga? Chayotes? Here's table of the garden fruits with ripening times, and another table of the fruits from our surroundings, i.e. near Nerja on the Mediterranean coast. We get them as gifts from friends, and we pick fruits from trees in public spaces... Read more about Our fruits

25 Aug 2023

Watermelon from our garden

We have been cultivating a few watermelons in summer for 3 years, this summer only 3 plants that self-seeded with the mulch because of the lack of water. But there are 4 fruits on the plants - and they are very tasty! In the photo you can see the second watermelon. The seeds are unusually large because it is an old variety. It comes from an old farmer, is well adapted to our climate and always produces very tasty fruit.

Our lifestyle

✍ 15 July 2023

We live in a wooden cottage with no heating, no car, no fridge, no TV, no sofa, no cooking, no WC... We live like this, not because we have to, but because we want to. Can you imagine that? Take a look at our cottage... Read more about Our lifestyle

Pitanga fruits

Update: 1 June 2023

Almost no one here knows Pitanga fruits (Suriname cherries, Eugenia uniflora). But they are tasty, they grow easily in our area and tolerate dry periods. It's a large shrub or small tree, growing slowly up to 8m high, native to tropical Southeast America.The fruits are juicy, aromatic and a bit sweet... Read more about Pitanga fruits

Sprouting tips

✍ 1 May 2023

Sprouting and fermenting are the healthiest and most economical way to prepare seeds! Here are tipps for buckwheat, chickpeas, lentils, linseeds, sesame and sunflower seeds. We also discuss if they are good to eat raw... Read more about Sprouting tips

Our icecream

✍ 19 Aug 2022

We have an abundance of ripe banans in the garden. And the temperatures are high. So... we love our icecream. Sometimes a friend visit us. Last time when she was here, we mixed quite a lot of our bananas and put them in plastic boxes... Read more about Our icecream

Our salad

✍ 7 Aug 2022

We don't have many vegetables in the garden at the moment. I rode by bike into town yesterday and bought cucumbers, tomatoes and lemons. And then Murielle created this beautiful and delicious salad... Read more about Our salad

Dates and insecticides

✍ 1 Nov 2021

Noblevmy at Malayalam Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (edited with pixlr.com)

In South Spain you can find delicious dates. The most tasty ones I find in Almería. They're big and juicy like the Medjool dates. But I decided, not to eat them anymore. They could be treated with insecticides, because of this beetle... Read more about Dates and insecticides

25 Apr 2017

Rawfood - vegan & healing?

I got an email: "You are eating raw meat, and you put chickens into prison. And you're inviting to a Healing Rawfood Gathering. What's that? It's not fitting together at all. Please inform the people of the newsletter about that, because there are many strict vegan people..."

Yes, I have currently 17 chickens on 2,000 m2 land. And I eat the meat from the roosters, whom I slaughter myself. But in my view it is fitting together with my effort for the Healing Rawfood Gatherings and the other events. They're vegan because of their tradition and because the vegan food is a suitable basic to come together - it's not related to my personal conviction. (And if all participants agree, we might do some exceptions from the vegan food). I don't bring my raw meat to the food circles of the gatherings. But at home I do different.

I am happy if I find people who takes the focalizing of the gatherings over. Also I find it good if they are vegan. However, I want to ask all strict vegan brothers and sisters: not to forget that the Rainbow has many colors. Everyone is welcome, the only condition is peace instead of violence on the gathering.

Why raw food?

Update: 25 Oct 2022

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Raw food is not heated food. But where is the temperature limit? Let's look at our body: when we have a fever, our body temperature rises up to 42 degrees, otherwise the protein in us would denature and we would die. However, our food contains proteins too... Read more about Why raw food?