Frugality, Winter, Moving, Planning, My Book, and More
Packing has started! As I mentioned in my last post, on the 31st of October, my book was due for submission to the Back to Basics bundle. I was working crazy hours on it, staying up and out of my house working with my layout and graphics person, until the wee hours of the morning… […]
Working Hard on my Cookbook
I want to apologize for neglecting to post on the blog lately… I’ve literally been eating, sleeping and dreaming my foraging cookbook whose deadline is at the end of this month. I’ve been running on 4-6 hours of sleep a night so I can get this done… Of course I knew a while ago when […]
My Latest Foraging and Frugal Escapades
Life has been pretty busy lately, doing lots of things, many of them money saving or money making (or both), but I have been so tired that I didn’t have the energy to post about them as they happened! So, here’s a rundown of some of my latest frugal escapades! I previously shared that in […]
Making Wild Greens Yuca Gnocchi
In April, I bought yuca root for the first time. It’s rather expensive round these parts, about $3.90 a pound, but I wanted to give it a try and attempt to cook with it, as I heard it was a very versatile cooking ingredient, that it allows you to make a large variety of paleo […]
Foraging and Gardening, and Combining the Two
On Friday, I taught a private foraging class to a teenager with Autism; it was his second foraging class |(in the space of two weeks) since he enjoyed the first one so much. My kids came along, and together, we found some awesome stuff! The first thing we found was some purslane, which is one […]
Review of “The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terroir” by Pascal Bauder
I’ve written before about my love of foraging wild edibles and how I got into it after moving to a new country. I also touched on the fact that the local foraging books leave much to be desired, so much so that I decided to write my own foraging id book and foraging cookbook. In […]
What I’ve Been Up To When Not Blogging
Ready soaps and soaps in molds As much as I love blogging, and have no plans on stopping any time in the foreseeable future, sometimes my life gets too busy to find time to write a blog post, and when I finally do get some down time, all I want to do is veg out […]
Amazing Foraging and Photographing Trip Today
Today I took the kids in to the city to photograph wild plants for the foraging book I’m writing. I actually planned the trip especially to photograph some dock (rumex) which I don’t often see, but decided to photograph any wild edible that may end up being in my book. I decided to share some […]
