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Real Food Doesn’t Wear a Label

Articles & Essays, Food / Michael Terpening / May 7, 2021

Real food has something processed food doesn’t have – fiber. The food industry removes the fiber to stabilize the food, so it won’t go rancid. Fiber reduces the shelf life and that’s unacceptable to the big industrial food companies, so their answer is to remove it. The problem is that, it’s not food anymore. It might look like food and taste like food but it is a very poor substitute for real food. Unless chronic disease and obesity are desired, instead of health.

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Sourdough Pizza

Food, Photo Journal, Recipe / Michael Terpening / December 5, 2020

I did a pizza blog on yeast free, Chicago Style Thin Crust pie back in February, you can check it out (here). Yeast has always fascinated me. I have made beer, wine and bread through the years and love working with the miraculous, wee beasties. They are magical little creatures that can turn grain and

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Amazing Cauliflower Tacos on Cornflower Tortillas

Food, Photo Journal, Recipe / Michael Terpening / August 4, 2020

I love tortillas, especially when they are wrapped around something tasty. I really like the flavor of corn tortillas but don’t like that they crumble and fall apart because there is no gluten to hold them together. When I want to grab onto something and eat with my hands, I reach for the soft enveloping

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Defending Against a Virus

Articles & Essays, Food / Michael Terpening / March 21, 2020

The basic requirements for life are clean air, water and food. Almost all disease; wee beasties from viruses to cancer have a difficult time in an alkaline environment. We are energetic, electrical beings and energy moves and thrives in an alkaline environment. In a high acid environment, energy is impeded, we become sluggish and slow;

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It’s Still The Middle of Winter. So, Some Coffee & Fish Tacos.

Food, Recipe / Michael Terpening / February 5, 2020

Woke up this morning to the remnants of a High Planes Blizzard. Snow everywhere, in little drifts and piles – sparkling, bright and cold. The temperature on the Christian Church sign across the street blinks 15 degrees at 8:00 straight up, as the Methodist Church, a block east chimes the hour for a full 30

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Seedy Bread & Adzuki Bean Soup

Food, Recipe / Michael Terpening / February 4, 2020

The north wind was slamming into the cottage, this morning when we got up at 4:30 or so, whipping and whistling. I looked out the window, to check the temperature on the church sign, across the street, it read 23 degrees. I ran the math in my head. Cold + Really windy = Really Cold.

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Artichoke Pizza

Food, Recipe / Michael Terpening / February 2, 2020

One of the things I miss about the city, are the grocery stores. Out here on the High Planes there is only our small grocery store. Vickie manages it and does her best to bring in new products and organics but the vendors just don’t have access to the crazy, other-worldly inventory, of the speciality

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