I love waking up in the morning to find that my neighbour has left a basket of eggs on the back porch. I take great solace in knowing where my food comes from and how it is raised. We have a reciprocal exchange of food with our neighbours; they give us eggs and we...
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My post on How to Make Yogurt is so popular (about 1/4 of all visitors to Sustainable Suburbia visit that page), and has generated so many comments and questions, that I figured it was time to formalise some of the answers into a kind of FAQ of yogurt making. So I’ve spent the last...
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We recently had to take a pot of Vegetarian Soup to my daughter’s kindergarten class for their Winter weekly soup day. Some people – including some children – think they don’t like vegetarian dishes. There must be some meat! Well let me tell you, the kids loved this soup. In fact, one mother emailed...
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Western diets high in meat are coursing malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a study presented recently at an international conference looking at agriculture and its effects on nutrition and health. The report, presented by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), finds that if people in Western countries at less meat, the price...
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Banana bread is a delicious snack fresh out of the oven, served cold with or without butter, or toasted with lashings of organic butter. In our house though, it rarely makes it past the first sitting, and if there is some left over I generally freeze it in slices and use it for a...
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If you leave your Easter egg shopping to the last minute, you must expect to have to hunt around for the best eggs, particularly if you are after Fairtrade Easter Eggs. Oxfam stores are always a good bet, but then, that’s where everyone else is looking for their Fairtrade chocolate too, so this close...
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Making yoghurt from scratch is actually far easier than most people realise. The trickiest part is figuring out how to keep your yoghurt at an even temperature (of around 40 degrees Celsius) while it is forming. And that’s where the Easiyo comes into it’s own. Note: We now also have a Making Yogurt at...
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In a paper published last month in Environmental Health Perspectives, experts explain how administering medicine through animal fodder can cause antibiotic resistant bacteria to develop. “If they don’t get all their food, they don’t get all the medicine, and if they don’t get all the medicine, then the whole bacteria population isn’t wiped out,...
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Some, but not yet all, of Green & Black’s organic chocolate bars are fairtrade certified. But they have announced that not only are they on track to met their pledge of being entirely Fairtrade by the end of 2011, and in the UK they have already achieved that goal. This includes both chocolate bars...
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Only a decade ago I couldn't get the grapes my pregnant body craved because they were out of season. Yet now I spend perhaps a third of the year refusing to buy my children the grapes they can see in the supermarket because they are grown in the USA and imported to Australia, where...
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The blog has moved so this post is now at http://sustainablesuburbia.net/blog/making-yoghurt/ Related Posts:Making Yoghurt from Scratch in an Easiyo (without the packet mixes)
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The blog has moved so this post is now at http://sustainablesuburbia.net/blog/making-yoghurt-from-scratch-in-an-easiyo/ Edited to add: or check out the second post in the series for the report and instructions on how to make yoghurt from scratch using an Easiyo. Related Posts:Making yoghurt tonight!How to Make Yoghurt From Scratch in an Easiyo Yogurt MakerMaking Yogurt at...
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