Homemade Gluten Free Vegan Thin Mints or Mint Chocolate Wafer Cookies Recipe — Frugal and Easy
The other day I was looking to make a dessert for the family but I didn’t have any special ingredients to use. This often happens because things like chocolate chips and other dessert add ons are more expensive so I don’t generally keep them in stock. I turned to friends for suggestions and got the […]
Homemade Gluten Free Vegan Falafel Recipe — Grain Free, Delicious, and Easy
I have a lot of chickpeas in my house, but they just sit there since I don’t always have the energy to cook things from scratch, and when I do, I want to make sure my family will eat it and it won’t go to waste. Last night I put up a package of chickpeas […]
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 […]
Delicious Onion Mushroom Pasta Recipe — Gluten Free, Vegan, Frugal, and Easy
I’m obsessed with this most recent pasta creation of mine, and so is my family. It is absolutely delicious and east and it’s creation came about completely by chance. I had intended to make a mushroom sauce with ginger and soy sauce, terriyaki style, but I was away and didn’t have any ginger, so had […]
Homemade Gluten Free Vegan Snickerdoodles Recipe — Easy, Frugal, and Delicious
Since I ground gluten free flour a couple of days ago for the first time in months (to be able to make gluten free pizza for the family), I finally had gluten free flour to use in my house, so decided to make cookies for the family. The thing is, I didn’t have any special […]
Healthy Chinese Restaurant Style Pineapple Chicken Recipe — Paleo, Gluten Free, Allergy Friendly
One of my kids’ favorite dishes is pineapple chicken. Sweet, sour, delicious. I certainly love it as well. And pretty easy to make, not to mention healthy. Unfortunately there are too many battles in my house over food, even though meal time is the last thing that I want to make into a battle ground. […]
Homemade Jerk Flavored Fish Jerky Recipe — Paleo, Frugal, and Easy
One of the harder things about being on a healthy diet is following it when you’re out of the house. Cooking and preparing food to bring along adds more to the to do list before you leave, and isn’t always possible when you’re rushing. Buying food when out is usually possible, but pricey, but buying […]
Homemade Harissa Recipe, Tunisian Hot Chili Pepper Condiment
I love spicy food, and when it doesn’t come already spicy, I enjoy adding a kick to it with hot sauce or some other spicy condiment. This is evidenced by the fact that I have no less than 8 different recipes for homemade hot sauces and condiments from around the world and suitable to different […]
Chicken Waldorf Recipe — Paleo, Easy, and Delicious
Growing up my dad liked to make what he called Waldorf salad. Only he didn’t make his with chicken; his was totally vegetarian. I was recently looking for ideas of easy, healthy meals to make, and a friend recommended chicken Waldorf salad, only hers had the addition of pineapple and grapes, but my dad’s version […]
Foraged Purslane and Summer Fruit Salad Recipe — Easy, Vegan, and Paleo
So many people have asked me how I possibly teach foraging classes in the summer; what is there even to forage when it is so hot and dry? (Locally, it doesn’t rain at all in the summer season, other than the occasional fluke.) But there is definitely what to forage in the summer, and in […]