The weather has become terribly hot here suddenly and this is a fantastic, seasonally-appropriate drink.  It reminds me I should stop at the fruit stand and see what's there.  We picked our cherry tree clean two weeks ago.  The birds helped us.

What I do to reduce the lactose levels in the milk is culture my raw milk with kefir grains.  (How to make homemade dairy kefir.)  Fermenting the milk adds even more beneficial bacteria to the raw milk (or pasteurized if that's what you're using), B vitamins, and it reduces the milk sugar for people like me who need that. 


Amanda

I wish the mercola website offered some version of their own Pemmican. The only pemmican i have found comes from grassland beef...

Pemmican seems like the perfect snack that Mercola would recommend... its from grassfed animals... low carb... very filling. It is what the settlers used as they explored the frontier.

It is made from either tallow, or marrow... and different but lean cuts of meat which are dried (like jerky) then mixed with the tallow and dried cherries.

Stone fruits, like CHERRIES, Peaches, Apricots, etc. are suppose to be in wonderful and ripe supply this summer...therefore Luci's recipe suggestion is again ON TARGET! 

Many thanks, Oh, High Chef of the Serene Kitchen!

I have a very large bone tumor which is benign, but can be painful. I would like to have it removed, but am waiting for a variety of reasons.  It's a very sensitive compass that fingers inflammation triggers so I've strangely learned a lot from this unwelcome guest.  There are days I have intense pain and many days I don't.  I learned quickly to associate which things cause inflammation and which reduced it leading to pain free days.  I first noticed one summer while eating fresh cherries that I went pain free completely.  When cherry season was over, I tried cherry juice, dried cherries, etc.  They did not work at all.  Which led me to learn that these anti-inflammatory flavenoids are water soluble.  I've read how dried cherries or cherry juice  helped others, but did not do so for me.  Becoming dehydrated also triggers inflammation for me..  I don't need to drink tons of water, not even the lauded 6-8 glasses, but if I drink at least a couple glasses a day, it helps ward off the inflammation that pains the tissue around the tumor.  Gatorade made inflammation terrible, but I learned anything with supplemental potassium triggered some of the most wrenching pain.  Something I would have never otherwise noticed without my strange friend.  Nothing has beat fresh cherries in reducing inflammation.  I'm still learning though.  I plan to pay close attention until I have this thing removed.