Pennywise Platter Thursday 9/2

by KimiHarris on September 2, 2010

It’s time to share your frugal and nourishing tips and recipes! Where do you shop for quality food at a lower price? What recipe saves a penny? How do you balance a budget with nourishing food? Share here.

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Phytic Acid in Grains and Legumes

by KimiHarris on September 1, 2010

I would love to camp out a little more in the history of fermenting grains and legumes, but since I have a lot of information to get through, I thought today I should start addressing the topic of phytic acid in grains and legumes. This is what the majority of scientific studies I’ve read have been addressing. I haven’t found studies to answer  all of my questions yet, but there are certainly a glut of studies to read!

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Is Fermenting Grains Traditional?

August 31, 2010

I am sitting here with thirty pages of research printed off, a dozen other studies open in my browser,  and another blogger’s research article opened. It can be information overload when researching this topic! That’s what I don’t want to do with you all. So I will be taking one aspect of fermented grains at [...]

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Introduction to our Fermented (or Soaked) Grain Week

August 30, 2010

It’s another theme week! (Boy, I am missing posting recipes!).This week I wanted to give updated research on soaking (fermenting) grains. When this blog first started, I wrote a very simple explanation of soaked grains here and here. I did so to explain why my recipes had a soaking period in them as that was [...]

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