Foraging Cactus Paddles- Nopales/Nopalitos- and Prickly Pears- Tunas
Do you know how often people pick or eat one part of a vegetable or plant, having no clue that another part of that same plant is also edible, and in many cases, even more useful and tasty and versatile than the part they’d been eating until then? (If you want to know more about […]
Foraging Olives- Homemade Pickled Olives and Olive Leaf Medicine
One of my favorite things to do is to start chatting with older women, ideally non Americans, about their life as a child, and about various food preparation methods from when they were growing up. I find I learn so much this way, much more “real information” than I’d get if I’d just open a […]
Blackened Fish Recipe- 2 Ways
The first time I’d heard of blackened fish, I was sure it meant that a fish was overcooked so much that it was charred to a nearly inedible state. I didn’t understand why someone would want to advertise their lack of cooking prowess by sharing that they made blacked fish. And then I discovered that […]
Coffee Chicken Recipe
There is something I love about cooking chicken- its so versatile and easy to make; its almost hard to make chicken taste bad. Undercooked or overcooked, yes, but chicken is very forgiving when it comes to flavors- nearly everything tastes good with chicken, which makes it more friendly to experimentation. Because if the experiment doesn’t […]
Gluten Free Cornbread Recipe II- Dairy Free, With Non GF Option
Gluten free vegan cornbread, made with coconut crystals I’ve shared a cornbread recipe of mine in the past, a gluten free version, and while I was happy with that recipe and it did the trick, it wasn’t the cheapest gluten free cornbread in the book, and sometimes I want things a bit different. I think […]
Foraging A Feast- Gourmet Foraged Foods
I’ve been foraging since almost forever, but for the vast majority of my life, it was only a few random things every once in a while. I started seriously foraging, using foraged foods as a regular food source for my family about 2.5 years ago, and ever since then, the way I forage and prepare […]
Train Birthday Cake- Food Coloring Free, Gluten Free, Vegan (and Gluten Free Vegan Sugar Cookies Recipe)
I can’t believe that my son Lee is already 5 years old! Holy cow- that means I’ve been a mom already for 5 whole years! I mean, in a way it feels like I’ve been a mom forever since my “momhood” is such a huge part of my life (not to mention feeling it was […]
Homemade Meringues Recipe and Marshmallow Fluff
When I go to the city, I pass by bakery after bakery filled with foods I cannot eat, as I am off gluten. I often see meringues there, so tempting to buy, because meringues are completely flour free, but I am sensitive enough to gluten that even foods that touched gluten make me sick, so […]
Applesauce or Pear Sauce Spice Cake Recipe- Gluten Free, Vegan, Refined Sugar Free
First of all I wanted to apologize for the infrequency of posting this past week. We’ve had an action packed week filled with lots of celebrations with family and friends, and I was busy preparing for all of them, cooking up a storm, which kept me pretty busy and off the computer. With all my […]
Homemade Almond Extract Made From Kitchen Scraps, Vitamin B17, Amygdalin, and Cancer Treatment
You know those times that you have a good post that you want to write, but have no clue how to title it because it covers so many interconnected topics? Well, that’s today. I’m not quite sure how to start it, as I have so many different things I want to write about. But you know […]
