I first broke ground in Vancouver BC, on June 7th, 2009. For me this was a very symbolic act. This was the day I finally got the stamp in my passport that said I was an official resident of Canada. Living in an apartment I didn’t have a piece of ground of my own, but I had been scouting out the nearby possibilities for about a year and a half while waiting for my residency to come through.
Hella Delicious
A quick and easy way to make a smoker on the fly. Indoctrinex drills, whittles and organizes wood-chips, a garbage can and a hotplate….Spice is rubbed into legs of turkey and lamb-the smoker gets busy as hungry fans observe.
Potato salad is extra tasty when the potatoes are homegrown. In fact, commercially grown potatoes are full of chemicals and best to avoid. It also feels wonderful to dig your fingers into the earth and pull out a potato. This is a malleable, open-source recipe, do as you will.
Music: Monsanto Took My Seed Blues by Old Bull
Recipe: Wild Herbs Potato Salad
Inspired by the Vietnamese cha gio, these colorful, crispy spring rolls are best wrapped in a crunchy leaf of lettuce with an addition of a fresh aromatic herb, dipped in the delicious sauce and munched on in the company of your favorite people.
These spring rolls are a great community event, especially if you are serving a large group, everyone joins in wrapping up the stuffing in rice paper and the spring rolls are eaten as fast as they are made. Recipe
Demonstrating how easy it is to make healthy, live-cultured yogurt from fresh raw goat’s milk.
This slow heat method ensures as many enzymes and cultures as possible will be available for intestinal health.
Also shows three methods of incubation. The towel method has the best track record, and the cooler is a real pain.
The cute goats who provided the fresh milk live at M and S farm, Catskills, NY.
Recipe: www.helladelicious.com Music: www.mujaji.com Goat Milk: www.mandsfarm.com
Step back in time and experience the sweet goodness of maple syrup. In this old-fashioned sugar house, sap collected from surrounding maple trees is reduced to rich syrup in an wood-fired evaporator.
Location: Muthig Farm, Parksville, New York.
Maple syrup is an excellent alternative to cane sugar and provides trace minerals which are brought up from the earth by the tree’s roots.
This sophisticated hand-tossed salad is a signature Burmese dish. Not only is it simple, delicious and quick to prepare but it is also inexpensive. Dice it to create a tasty bruchetta topping. Add green chilis for extra kick. Go ahead! Try it! It is also very nourishing and a great side-dish for rice. Recipe
Ingredients: tomatoes, onions, garlic and turmeric oil, cabbage, peanuts, lime, coriander, sesame seeds, fish sauce or salt and green chilis.
Rich, tasty, affordable, nourishing…this peanut butter, tahini, yogurt and banana smoothie is just the thing to kick start your day! Easy to make too!
Recipe: www.helladelicious.com Music: www.mujaji.com
Nourishing and supportive, chicken broth has been used throughout the world for centuries as a basis for flavor and health.
Ingredients: Chicken bones, celery, carrots, onions, spices. Full Recipe.
This sophisticated peanut chutney is a signature Burmese dish. Not only is it affordable and addictive but it is also nutritious and keeps well. Make up a batch and add it to your salads, mix it into freshly blanched vegetables or just eat it as a snack. I learned this recipe during the Buddhist lent period when people often become vegetarians for a couple months. Balachaung is normally made with dried shrimp.
Ingredients: onions, garlic, oil, turmeric, chili powder, ginger, peanuts, fish sauce or salt. Full Recipe.















