Homemade Prickly Pear Scrap Wine Recipe- DIY Foraged Alcoholic Beverages
I’ve written before about how I enjoy my alcoholic beverages, but have a problem with the price tag. My first recent experiment with making my own hooch, after a break of a few years, was simply using the only fruit I had available in the house at the time- tangerines and a lemon, and it […]
Preparing and Preserving Cheap and Free Past Prime Foods
Yesterday I wrote about how I went to the market and came home with an insane amount of produce, most of it that I got free, and a lot of it past prime. 154 lbs of food that needed to be dealt with when I came home yesterday and all today. The past two days […]
Spicy Baked Sweet Potato Fries Recipe- Paleo, Vegan, Easy
The other night I wanted a treat. I had to go out to a fancy dinner event where I knew there was likely not going to be any food that I could eat, because of my restrictive gluten free, egg free, predominantly paleo diet, and I didn’t want to be sitting there eating boring, simple […]
Larb Gai- Laotian Meat Salad Recipe- Frugal, Paleo, and Vegan Options
I really appreciate traditional recipes from around the world, especially when they use healthy, cheap ingredients that I can get easily. I mentioned to someone how much I love gizzards, that I even wrote a whole manifesto about them, and a friend mentioned to me that if I want a great gizzards recipe, I should […]
Easy and Quick DIY Homemade Orange, Clementine or Tangerine Alcohol
My homemade alcohol, after I already drank a bunch. I grew up in a house where alcohol was a fact of life. It was never a taboo thing, nor was it abused. I had alcohol from when I was a young age, a sip here and there, and my father drank alcohol a few times […]
Cheapo Easy Cheesy Rice (or Easy Mac and Cheese) Recipe- Gluten Free
Sometimes the recipes I share here on this blog are fancy and cookbook worthy. They’re delicious and frugal and look amazing… And sometimes there are recipes like this. Far from gourmet, it’s something I’ve started making recently when the kids are hungry and I don’t have energy to think up something fancy or time consuming […]
Purslane Cantaloupe Salad Recipe- Paleo, Gluten Free, Sugar Free, Vegan
When there are foods that are supposed to be pretty sweet, but for whatever reason aren’t, whether it is cantaloupe, peaches, plums, or butternut squash, you might be at a loss for what to do with it, and maybe even have considered chucking it. If I open a fruit (or vegetable) and discover that, instead […]
All About Versatile Yuca Dough and Using it to Make Grain Free Vegan Goodies
Baked yuca dough wild greens gnocchi, absolutely delicious, grain free, and vegan! First off, I need to write that there are two plants, one named yuca and one named yucca and people often misspell them. Yucca with two c’s is also known as Spanish dagger, and grows wild in many places and is ornamental in […]
Making Homemade Beef Jerky, Take Two
Two years ago, for the first time, I tried making jerky. I was going on an overseas trip and wasn’t sure what the situation with gluten free food would be on the flight or in general and I wanted to make sure that I had protein to eat that was shelf stable, so I tried […]
Greek Style Grape Leaf Soup Recipe — Paleo, Allergy Friendly, Easy
I sometimes give up when it comes to food photography; certain foods seem impossible to photograph in a way that makes people seeing those pictures want to eat them. This, I guess, is one of them. But trust me, despite the picture, it is delicious. I had this idea to make a soup that was […]
