Easy and Delicious Cream of Artichoke Soup Recipe- Gluten Free, Allergy Friendly

Inspiration in the kitchen comes in all sorts of ways. Sometimes its by hearing what a friend made, seeing pictures of a food on facebook, or even going down the rabbit hole searching for food from specific cuisines. But sometimes its more interesting, like buying a 2 liter bottle of heavy cream, and trying to […]

Homeade Garaetteok, Korean Rice Cake Cylinders For Making Tteokbokki

I find when I’m looking for recipes to make, sometimes I end up going down the rabbit hole of recipes, usually from eastern Asia, looking at first one recipe and another and another, deciding that I needed to make every last one of them. Tteok, Korean rice cakes, was something I discovered in one of […]

West African Chicken Suya Recipe- Spicy Skewered Meat with African Pepper Sauce

After making delicious sosaties, Afrikaans skewered meat, the last time I made a barbecue, I decided I wanted to explore different skewered meat recipes from around the world, so see which is my favorite. As I looked through my list of recipes to try, I was trying to find something without any special ingredients, using […]

Homemade Corn Schnitzel Recipe — Gluten Free, Vegan, Frugal, and Delicious

I am not quite sure why, but locally, there is this food dubbed “corn schnitzel”. No, its not chicken or meat mixed with corn and made into schnitzel. In fact, it doesn’t have any protein in it, but many people eat it as a protein substitute in vegetarian meals, since it is meat free. I […]

Homemade Iced Chocolate or Iced Mocha Slushy Recipe, Vegan Option

Its been getting hotter lately here and my kids wanted to have a nice cool treat. My son, Lee, had brought up that he loved iced coffee, something that a neighbor of his dad’s used to make him. So I made him iced coffee, not just iced coffee, but an icey coffee slushy, but then […]

Easy and Delicious Romanesco Broccoli Recipe- Vegan, Paleo, Gluten Free, Allergy Friendly

Have you ever heard of romanesco broccoli? It’s one of the weirdest but also one of the most beautiful (in my opinion) vegetables available out there. I had heard of it and seen pictures of it but never bought it since I didn’t see any available, but recently I was given a few heads for […]

Pasta con Finocchietto Selvatico Recipe, Pasta with Wild Fennel Fronds and Homemade Sausage, Gluten Free, Dairy Free, and Frugal

My back yard, though I’d planned to take care of it and turn it into a pretty little something, was overgrown by what most of the world knows as weeds. As a forager, I know these plants are mostly edible and delicious, and I made sure to use the mallow overtaking most of my yard […]

Easy and Delicious Chicken Sosaties Recipe- Afrikaans Skewered Meat Dish, South African and Namibian Shish Kebabs, Without Apricots

My friend Izel is from Namibia, a country that I really wasn’t familiar with at all, but soon learned that it used to be part of South Africa, called South West Africa, until its independence. Its filled with similar types of people that live in South Africa, with a lot of Afrikaaners, and the Namibian […]

Sukjunamul Guk, Kongnamul Guk, Korean Bean Sprout Soup Recipe- Easy, Allergy Friendly, and Delicious

You know what the problem with frugal recipes are? Different things cost different amounts in different places, so what might be a super frugal recipe for someone might not be so frugal. This recipe is one example of one that is practically free for me, but for someone else may be more expensive. But either […]

Easy Frugal Vegan Homemade Bagels Recipe

I’ll be honest, while I’ve known how to make homemade bread pretty much since forever, most of the time my kids would prefer store bought bread to homemade, and even if they’ll eat homemade bread, they don’t want it when its no longer fresh, unless its made into french toast. Recently, though, I made bagels, […]