Baking soda is essential, as is plain white vinegar. I don’t eat that – cider, white wine or rice vinegar – or balsamic for a select few recipes but not everything as it is far too dominant – but is wonderful for cleaning and other household uses.
Good recipe, but I’d use olive oil, and less. I buy jugs of it when it is on sale at a Greek supermarket I like, and pour it into four dark-green olive-oil bottles. Wine bottles would be fine too, but the glass should be dark so the oil keeps better. Also, almonds are very hard nuts, so if you have any family member with soft teeth, either they should be sliced or julienned or you should opt for a softer nut, such as walnuts.
I’m trying not even to think about the spring that doesn’t come. IN 2012, it was well over 20C in March, when it was still the very end of winter. I so need fresh, local green things, whether to eat or to nourish my spirits… Livia is stir crazy. She brings me clean socks I’ve paired and rolled up from my laundry basket. I was under the impression she thought they were prey, but now she is acting as if they were babies. Remember, even clean socks have a soft (but pleasant) scent for them. She doesn’t touch dirty sock.