Preserving More Produce
I truly feel blessed whenever I get my hands on free produce. The other day, once my fridge was already mostly filled after my last nearly free “grocery shopping” trip, I was gifted with even more produce, in very large amounts. It was predominantly extra large sweet potatoes, celery, and carrots, with a smaller amount […]
Fried Green Bananas or Plantains Recipe- Paleo, Vegan, Easy and Delicious
Occasionally when I lived in the US as a kid, my mom would come home with plantains, and we’d make fried green plantains. They were soft and sweet and delicious, but locally plantains are a fortune, when I can even find them, so fried green plantains are out. Fortunately, fried green bananas taste very similarly, […]
Paleo Update, and Insane Foraging and Extreme Frugal Food Shopping
I feel like those reading my blog for a while think I’m so inconsistent, and terrible with follow through, because I can’t count how many times I said I’d do something… and then fell off the bandwagon. But I think that’s life, and especially when there are a lot of things going on, its hard […]
Our Urban Homestead’s Kitchen Today
I feel like a real homesteader, you know, those farm wives that are all self sufficient and do everything themselves from raising their own food to transforming it to something that will feed their family for long periods of time, etc… all entirely from scratch. Though we don’t live on a farm, what we have […]
Making Your Home Gluten Free- Without Breaking the Bank: Beginner’s Guide to Going Gluten Free- Part 2
When my friend Daniella’s son was diagnosed with Celiac, I told her I’d help her transition her son to going gluten free, with a series of posts on my blog, and I did part one- the Beginners Guide to Going Gluten Free: What is Gluten and How to Avoid It, which did a very thorough job […]
Gluten Free Sesame Noodle Salad- Vegan, Easy, and Delicious
I want to apologize for not having posted recently- life has been a bit hectic here for a variety of reasons. Part of it was that I hosted a lunch time family reunion for 21 family members, first time hosting a crowd in our new house. It was a crazy day, and while people offered […]
Homemade Cooked Tomato Salsa Recipe, Restaurant Style- Cheap and Easy Salsa Roja
Growing up, my dad used to buy these giant bags of tortilla chips in bulk, and as a family we’d enjoy them dipped in salsa, whether mild, medium, hot, or volcanic, depending on what my dad bought that time and our moods. Recently I’ve been getting a hankering for chips and salsa, so I bought […]
An Insane Cooking Marathon with Free Food
I mentioned once, when I got so much free milk, that I love getting free food, but too much of it can stress me out, and this was no exception… The other day they were giving out free past prime produce and nearly expiring rice milk, and because the weather was bad, nearly no one […]
Foraging Salsify or Goatsbeard- Delicious Wild Edible
When people first hear about foraging from me, a response I typically get is “Oh, so you eat grass?” I’ve noticed that most people who aren’t immersed in the world of wild plants sees large swaths of green and instead of noticing different plants, they just see a green blur, which they dub grass. I […]
My Mini Makeshift Edible Garden
In our old apartment, the first one we had when we got married, we had a yard, and much of the time we didn’t make too much use of it (to get to the yard you had to walk through one of the bedrooms). Eventually we got chickens and rabbits and that was fun, but […]
