Sesame Baked Sweet Potatoes Recipe- Paleo, Vegan, Refined Sugar Free, Gluten Free
A while ago I discovered how delicious the various orange vegetables (sweet potatoes, pumpkins, carrots, etc…) taste with a sweet soy sauce based sauce. Koreans make a dish like this, where sweet potatoes or pumpkins are braised in a sweet soy sauce mixture (gogoma jorim is what it is called when made with sweet potatoes), […]
Gluten Free Sesame Noodle Salad- Vegan, Easy, and Delicious
I want to apologize for not having posted recently- life has been a bit hectic here for a variety of reasons. Part of it was that I hosted a lunch time family reunion for 21 family members, first time hosting a crowd in our new house. It was a crazy day, and while people offered […]
Homemade Corn Tortillas Recipe- Gluten Free, Vegan, and Easy
I wanted to make enchiladas, and my friend Amanda, hearing that, offered to give me the masa harina she had in her house, which I could then use to make some great gluten free corn tortillas. I was really excited about this, because I’d wanted to get my hands on masa harina for a while […]
Homemade Cooked Tomato Salsa Recipe, Restaurant Style- Cheap and Easy Salsa Roja
Growing up, my dad used to buy these giant bags of tortilla chips in bulk, and as a family we’d enjoy them dipped in salsa, whether mild, medium, hot, or volcanic, depending on what my dad bought that time and our moods. Recently I’ve been getting a hankering for chips and salsa, so I bought […]
Raw Nettle or Spinach Pesto Recipe- Vegan, Paleo, and Cheap
Nettle pesto on spiralized zucchini I almost feel silly sharing a recipe for pesto here made with wild greens, because it seems like, other than scrambled or in a salad, pesto is just about the most common way that people prepare wild greens. But the thing is, pesto is yummy when made right, but if […]
Miso Glazed Chicken Wings Recipe- Gluten Free, Refined Sugar Free and Delicious
I love chicken wings! They are my favorite kind of chicken for a variety of reasons. I love crispy chicken skin, and wings are the highest ratio of skin to chicken as far as I can tell, but even better is their very low cost. Not only are they cheap per pound- locally I can […]
Sweet Potato and Greens Cakes Recipe- Paleo, Vegan, Gluten Free, with Foraged Ingredients
A few years back, if you asked me what was the best way to serve bitter greens (as a large percentage of wild greens are), I would have told you with fried onions, lemon and garlic. Don’t get me wrong- it tastes delicious that way, but I’ve since come up with an even more winning […]
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 […]