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Link here to June 2015 Column Page: All about cool!
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Our Dental Section: All about dental self- care; what pages in Northdays show you herbs that improve your dental health?
The navigation bar on the left has a new section called "Dental Health". On the dropdown, a button is titled "Interest". Link through this to a page, which is called Natural Dental about some natural dental health recipes and ideas.
I like a particular herb, which can be adapted to Canadian soil to be used either for its attractiveness in planters, or actually for cuisine or medicine. Aztec Sweet Herb is 1,000 to 1,500 times sweeter than sugar, yet it does not contribute to tooth decay.
To Aztec Sweet Herb Article, "Honey Herb"
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Having been a life long fan of chocolate, and that's of all kinds - the savour, scents, softening qualities - I am overwhelmed by the wealth of glad tidings concerning the healthful aspects of cacao.
LINK TO: Chocolate
LINK TO: Cacao Properties
French Canadian Vegetarian Tourtiere
My column for Winter 2013 contained variations upon the winter comfort food of Canadians: tourtiere recipes. It is reposted as a permanent page.
Tourtiere is a meat pie traditionally made with herbs, pork, or beef and venison. I happen to like meatless cuisine, and in my article I describe why eating this way occured to me at all. As well, I discovered that I could really enjoy veggie soya products in quite classy formats.
Some of we vendors entered a contest for best pie in the Autumn of 2012. A silent auction offered proceeds to the local Food Bank. My article is about this (the first pie contest I've entered) and it also contains a recipe for home made Pumpkin Pie.
Recent news about coffee and its helpful nature as an herb led me to research some fairly scientific stuff.
Read all about Soapwort.(text-only) This herb might seem rustic and the idea of making ones own soap from the garden old-fashioned, but its uses are worth knowing about.
QUICK NOTES: Link to Soapwort Properties Text Page
Last summers' column (2011)
describe some of the benefits of shopping in a Farmers' Market.
It's still cool here, and we are still enjoying root vegetables, winter spuds and stovetop cooking. A nice transition to the salad days (which even makes sense for a mid-summer Bar BQ) is to make a 'hot' salad, full of nutritional ingredients.Try the hearty salad combination or whiz it up your own favourite way.
Recipe for Hot Brussels Sprouts Salad
Salad Days: Hoot Cela! (a hot alternative to coleslaw),Column:May. 2011
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Cooler weather demands that you take a little warmth into your system, nourishing your body for the winter months with some good quality nutrients. From now until March, nuts and fruit like cranberries are very traditional. These are also very good for you. Try the simple banana-cranberry cake recipe.
To Nutty Banana -Cranberry Cake:
To celebrate fresh foods. Roasted fresh coffee - because we can!
The advent of really sunny, moist warm weather in late May tends to spark the flowering of ground covering vines, like Ajuga or Creeping Phlox.
This sites' newest article is about Blue Ajuga, a brilliant rock-garden cover and a medicinal herb..
The advent of really sunny, moist warm weather in late May tends to spark the flowering of ground covering vines, like Ajuga or Creeping Phlox.
This sites' newest article is about Blue Ajuga, a brilliant rock-garden cover and a medicinal herb..
The horseradish was considered to be worth its' weight in gold!
Read about sunny Penstemon in Beardtongue (In Love With the Penstemon)
The Reincarnating World: Notes about reincarnation or rebirth. From plant seeds to eggs, toward a faithful understanding of what makes life return to earth, again and again: Comparative religion.
Stoned Flatbread, and how thrift can turn into a monster luxury!
I had fun researching the various documents about violets, their history and medicinal uses. Hope you enjoy this!
COLUMN, May and June : Violets in my Garden!
500 Varieties of Violets.
COLUMN, Jan to March: Revive!
Eat Nuts and stay well!
I have always believed in the good nutritive qualities of nuts.
Cholesterol? Well, I cheat a bit. You see, I need certain combinations of foods in Winter, and so do you!
COLUMN, AUGUST to SEPTEMBER 2008 The Creative Vegan.
I found a wonderful new type of restaurant, where a vegetarian like myself can not only be happy with the food choices, but creative.
COLUMN, MARCH 2008:
CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME. This month (March) I have added something a little more serious to my columns' concept.
I explored natural medicine for the relief of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. If you suffer from this problem, you might like to try some of the available remedies.
COLUMN, FEBRUARY 2008:
My two new publications are on the road. Shown to the right is the cover of my Photo publication, about the mysteries of earth and arts, people and places.
I also pubished a major work, which took me three years. That work, described in this article is about religion and interfaith concepts.
IRISES: I added some newer photos and also some relevant links to my Irises article recently(for links, text-only: iristext.htm). I am linked to Quebec, Canada (French) and to Czechoslovakia (in Czech!)Who is right? Which is the most wild and or medicinal of the varieties of Bearded iris (Iris versicolor)?
Cats' Claw (uncaria tomentosa, is an herb found in the Tropical Rainforests of South America. Studies in the last half of the century confirm that this herb has qualities which earn for it the terms "noble", and "world-class"..
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A fairly quiet herb, which has never caught my eye, cinquefoil demanded that I give it some attention by plonking itself in my herb garden.
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