Musakhan Recipe- Middle Eastern Sumac Chicken
After picking my wild sumac and making it into a spice, I kind of was at a loss of what to do with it, other than making sumac lemonade. I mean, I knew my mom would make chicken with sumac when I was growing up, but that sumac was pretty boring. Just chicken, sumac, and […]
Vegan Mayonnaise Recipe- Soy Free
I haven’t bought a jar of mayonnaise, other than a few exceptions, in a few years. I make my own, always. Eggs, oil, a little lemon, a little mustard, some salt, and some trial and error until you get the technique down pat. Homemade mayo tastes so much better than store bought, and I know I […]
Homemade Chocolate Sprinkles Recipe- Vegan
Banana peanut butter healthy homemade ice cream, topped with homemade chocolate sprinkles There are certain foods we eat for nourishment, and then there are foods that are certainly not eaten for health benefits, or even because they’re necesary at all, but rather, because they make life more fun. Frosting and sprinkles are two of those […]
Sumac Lemonade Recipe- A Sweet and Sour Foraged Drink- and Sumac Juice
About a week ago, we had a get together for the ladies in my community, with the purpose of getting to know all the new and old faces. As part of the whole “get to know you” theme, we were each tasked to bring along a food or drink to share that represented some aspect […]
Foraging Sumac- Edible Wild Plant
Having grown up in a climate completely different than the one I live in now, and having only really taken up foraging seriously lately (as in the past year or two), there aren’t many things that I forage now that I foraged growing up. Sumac, though, is one of the exceptions. We used to go […]
The Art of Continuous Leftovers
There are all sorts of attitudes towards leftovers in people’s homes. In some homes, anything left over after a meal gets tossed in the trash. In other homes, there are no leftovers after the meal, either because there is a shortage of food, because people get encouraged to finish all the food on the table, […]
Homemade Teriyaki Sauce Recipe- Gluten Free, Refined Sugar Free
Teriyaki chickpeas over rice. Made with this teriyaki sauce. I think it took me until I was well out of elementary school, and possibly already in high school, for me to know that teriyaki sauce is a condiment that is sold in the store. I thought everyone made teriyaki sauce at home, just like my dad […]
Foraging Yucca Blossoms- Wild Edibles
Yucca is probably one of those foraged plants that people most commonly get confused with something else that they buy in the grocery store. (Plantain is probably the only plant that gets confused more often.) Yucca, the wild edible, spelled with 2 c’s, is in the asparagaceae family, and is related to asparagus. It is […]
Chicken Lentil Patties Recipe- Gluten Free, Egg Free
Often its those things that we know we can’t have that we end up craving most. I never was big into processed, packaged foods, always preferring that home cooked meal to prepackaged, chemical laden junk. And yet, when I recently was in the grocery store, my eyes fell upon this ready cooked meal that I […]
Mujaddara Recipe Version 2- Middle Eastern Rice and Lentils
There are some foods that I’ve been making a certain way for years, completely unaware that there is some similar type of recipe, with the same name and with similar basic ingredients, whose taste is radically different, sometimes its hard to understand why it’s called the same dish. Mujaddara is one of those dishes. My […]
