Easy Congee Recipe Using Leftovers, Chinese Savory Rice Porridge
Unfortunately my daughter has a stomach bug. (We’ve been dealing with so many sick days this past winter, first one kid then another, so many fevers, but this seems to be the first stomach bug.) I wanted to make some food to help my daughter feel better, something that would be soothing on the stomach, […]
Homemade Restaurant Quality Korean Beef With Mushrooms and Broccoli Recipe — Delicious, Easy, Gluten Free, Paleo Friendly, Allergy Friendly
My favorite food to make is my own riffs off of restaurant meals. This goes way up there. I haven’t been eating so well lately, because I’ve been busy, and today I felt the need for a really good home cooked meal that would nourish my body as well as my soul. I headed to […]
Heavenly Gluten Free Vegan Ooey Gooey S’mores Brownie Pie Recipe, Decadent, Fudgy, and Delicious Lava Cake
The recipes I’ve been sharing the past few days, the graham cracker crust, and the fudgy brownies, have all been leading up to this moment. This masterpiece of decadence and deliciousness, out of this world and absolutely scrumptious. I have my friend Felicity to thank for this. Not long ago, I was at Felicity’s house, […]
Super Fudgy Gluten Free Vegan Brownies Recipe with Oil and No Weird or Expensive Ingredients
Ok, lets pretend that my brownies were not made in a disposable aluminum pan. I know, I know, its not so photogenic. I even tried to take it out of the pan for a picture, but this is fudgy gooey brownies and that means that it doesn’t cut nicely and this is the most photogenic […]
Homemade Vegan Nasi Goreng Recipe, Delicious Indonesian Fried Rice, Gluten Free, Frugal, Paleo Option
Growing up, as far as I knew, there was one dish called fried rice. And it was made the way my dad made it. Rice. Veggies. Soy sauce, chicken broth, ginger, garlic, sugar, vinegar. That’s it. And supposedly its origins were in China. But then I learned there are infinite varieties of fried rice, mostly […]
Easy Homemade Taco Seasoning and Spice Mix Recipe
Let’s pretend that this was artistically spilled for this picture, and not that that’s what spilled over when I was transferring the taco seasoning to the smaller jar… haha… I love Mexican food and Tex Mex and all sorts of similar types of foods. I’ve shared quite a few Mexican recipes here, but one of […]
Homemade Copycat Sprite Recipe — Easy, Frugal
I don’t usually get so ridiculously excited by a post, let alone a recipe, but then again, I don’t usually end up with something so perfect that it’s pretty much better than the original. So soda. I like it. My kids like it. But I rarely buy it, because I find it too overpriced. (Not […]
Frugal Thanksgiving Recipe Roundup — Mostly Gluten Free, Vegan, and Healthy
Thanksgiving is almost here! Some of you may have prepared your menu and did all your shopping already, while others of you more last minute types may not have your menu together yet. So for those of you who haven’t already prepared, I’ve put together a round up of Thanksgiving dinner type recipes from my […]
Easy Tomato Onion Soup Recipe — Paleo, Vegan, Allergy Friendly, and Very Frugal Too
Have you ever had guests and made a whole menu that you planned on making and serving, only to discover once you already were in the process of cooking that you didn’t have the necessary ingredients for some of the dishes? That’s never, ever, ever happened to me, but I do know that it happens […]
Purslane and Cucumber Gazpacho Recipe — Easy, Paleo, Vegan, and Allergy Friendly
Hank Shaw, author of Hunt Angler Gardner Cook, has been one of my foraging and food mentors and inspiration along with Pascal Bauder and a few others. This past week I got a compliment from him, calling me the “Purslane Queen” because of how many different recipes I have come up with using purslane. It […]