How to Open a Pomegranate (Video)

How to Open a Pomegranate (Video)

I just about get giddy when I see pomegranates make their debut in the grocery store. And when they are on sale – watch out. I don’t mind finding ways to incorporate those beautiful ruby red jewels into any and all meals. Or just eat [...]

Taking Your Dairy Beyond Organic

Taking Your Dairy Beyond Organic

This is a guest post by chiropractic student – and good friend of mine – James Beuerlein. He’s redonkulously smart, speaks seven languages (3 of them fluently), and knows how to deliver a baby in the back of a cab (you know, just in case. [...]

The Internet is Going on Strike

Stop SOPA: Internet Goes on Strike

You may or may not know about the SOPA/PIPA bills that are floating around Washington right now. If you’re like I am, you let the latest political buzz make a little noise without really taking much interest at first. But after a while, certain bills [...]

The 2 Most Important Food Rules

The 2 Most Important Food Rules

This is getting down to the basics, people. These two food rules apply to every single person in the world. I don’t care if you call yourself gluten-free, vegetarian, paleo, GAPS, vegan (which isn’t actually healthy – more on that later), locavore, primal, or omnivore. [...]

New Printable PDFs (FREE!)

Image of Ultimate Guide to Multi-tasking with Vinegar PDF

Something free! Is that why you clicked through? Just for the record, if you did, I don’t blame you one bit. I’m in the same boat. If it’s free, I’m potentially interested in whatever it is (though this can be incredibly dangerous for someone with [...]

If You’ve Broken Your New Year’s Resolutions Already . . .

A Dream is Just a Dream

Seriously guys, New Year’s Resolutions are generally worthless. They’re made with the best of intentions at the start of each new year, but they last an average of six days before they’re broken or forgotten in the busyness of day to day life. Six days. [...]

Top 11 Posts of 2011

Top 11 Posts of 2011

Welcome to a new year! I thought I would take a moment to look back at 2011 and share some of the most popular posts here on Laurel of Leaves. It was a record year for me in the life of my blog. When we [...]

Upside Down Fire

Upside Down Fire Step #3

Wood burning stoves may not be all that common in America (at least in the South where I’m from), but they are in just about every single home in New Zealand. Most homes there are hopelessly uninsulated, but at least most of their heat sources [...]

It’s Time to Live Beyond Organic

It’s Time to Live Beyond Organic

Look at me being all cute and cryptic in my post title. In all seriousness, taken at face value, it is time to get past an obsession with organic labels and really look at the quality of our food and where it comes from. Just [...]

Roasted Green Beans with Shallots & Almonds

Roasted Green Beans with Shallots & Almonds

This little beauty I came across on A Little Bit Crunchy, A Little Bit Rock n’ Roll, who originally found the recipe on Kalyn’s Kitchen. There’s just so much blogger love going on here I can barely contain it. Once I saw the recipe I immediately [...]

Is Circumcision a Christian Thing to Do?

Is Circumcision a Christian Thing to Do?

I think the more appropriate title for this post might be: Is Modern Circumcision a Christian Thing to Do? Because there is a massive difference between circumcision today and circumcision in the Old Testament of the Bible. If this is a completely new topic of [...]