Hearth and Soul Blog Hop

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Hearth and Soul Blog Hop, where each week, cooks from around the globe share their most delicious, nourishing, and heart warming recipes. The cooking carnival where you come to share your best kept cooking secrets, those recipes with the magic ingredient in it called “Soul Spice”-  the made […]

Book Review- Great Books! Botany in a Day and Shanleya’s Quest

I love foraging. I love going outside, seeing all the greenery growing, learning what foods are edible, and then picking and feeding them to my family. I’ve officially found one foraging book that covers local plants. All other foraging books I’ve seen cover plants in England or in different regions in North America, which doesn’t really […]

Moroccan Rice or Millet Butternut Squash Pilaf Recipe

There’s dried cherries in there as well. I don’t know why you can’t see them in this picture, but they’re there! I made a really yummy dish for supper last night, one that my husband and kids and I all really loved. It got rave reviews, with every family member asking me to please make […]

Homemade Rice-a-Roni Recipe or Rice with Vermicelli

Rice-a-Roni, apparently, is a boxed mix of rice and noodles that is sold in the grocery stores. We never bought Rice-a-Roni brand, but we did occasionally indulge in a “Rice and Vermicelli” box mix from another company, and it was always so yummy and delicious. This is a recipe for your own homemade Rice-a-Roni, or […]

Homemade, No Fail, Beautiful Bread

I’ve been a foodie since… oh, uhm, just about always. Ever since I was a little girl, I enjoyed helping my mother out in the kitchen, taste testing her food, and adjusting the seasonings. In fact, I was the official “soup seasoner” practically every single time my mother would make soup because she knew I […]