It’s official today is the start of jam season, I’m starting off my season with a delightful rhubarb jam.
1 lb chopped rhubarb
1 cup sugar
squeeze of lemon juice
Let the sugar and rhubarb hang out for a day to break down the fibrous rhubarb then cook until you get the set you are looking for. I’m not going to can since I don’t have bushels of rhubarb and between the homemade bread I made yesterday and the french vanilla ice cream, this won’t last too long in the house, but it feels good to start putting things away especially since my jam reserves are getting pretty slim. Yeah for summer!!
and it really got me thinking about diet. I’ve been reading a bunch of books about what really is the way we should be eating and I’ve been so turned around, but Real Food really seemed to resonate with me and my thinking. She had a lot of great information and supported her claims that dairy is ok (a big no for the paleo crowd) in a way that made sense to me. Ever since breastfeeding the idea of drinking another species breast milk hasn’t sat too well with me. Her point was that we should drink milk that is as close to real as possible, real being the milk that goes into the pail from the udder, none of this ultra-pasteruized homogenized, processed food product. If nature intended for us to drink milk, then nature intended for us to drink real milk which means it was fat in it, a huge paradigm shift for me. I did a ton of research and finally found a milk that I’m happy with, it comes from a dairy not too far away is gently pasteurized and non-homogenized. I know a lot of people think raw is the way to go, but I honestly don’t have the time to go and inspect a bunch of dairies to decide what’s a good choice, and my husband is still anti-goat for now. What changes have you made in your diet recently?
