Easy Homemade Peach Sauce Recipe – Paleo, Vegan, Delicious
Peaches are coming into season around here, which means that I can find them on the reduced rack at the grocery store or market, being sold for very little or even sometimes free. When I get them extra frugally or free, they often are mushy and/or banged up, which means that they should be cooked […]
My Frugal Produce Cooking Marathon
Yesterday I had a really great shopping trip, bringing home a bunch of produce for very little money. Much as I love a good deal on produce, bringing home that much at once does mean that I need to figure out what to do with it all so it doesn’t spoil and gets the most […]
Nightshade Free Hot Sauce Recipe- Paleo, Vegan, Delicious
I love my hot sauce. Whether tobasco or sriracha or any other type, being able to add a kick to my food easily is something I really enjoy. In a discussion with a friend of mine who is off of nightshades (the family that includes potatoes, peppers, eggplant, and tomatoes), she noted how I use […]
Penniless Foodie in the Wild: Adaptable Recipes for Foragers and Frugalistas is Now Out!!!
Awesome news to share with y’all!!! My new cookbook, Penniless Foodie in the Wild, Adaptable Recipes for Foragers and Frugalistas, is finally out and available on Amazon! This has been a work in progress for months (or years, depending on how you look at it), and I’m really excited by it. It’s not a foraging […]
Russian Vinegret Recipe- Root Vegetable Salad
One time, not so long ago, I was at a friend’s house and was offered some absolutely delicious salad, a Russian one called vinegret. In American English, and in many other languages, vinaigrette is a type of salad dressing based on vinegar, but Russian vinegret is actually the name of the salad, not just its […]
Chinese Style Corn Soup Recipe- Without Eggs
This past week has been a very busy one in my house, foraging so many different things, shopping a for frugal groceries, doing a lot of cooking from scratch, and even being filmed by a film student for a “day in the life of” documentary for her documentary making class. With this film student, I […]
Sweet and Spicy Carrot Medallions Recipe- Easy, Cheap, Paleo and Vegan
Sorry for not having posted so much lately, my husband has been on spring break from work, so we’ve been spending time as a family and less time on the computer and writing posts on my blog. I’m sorry about that! So, what’s new with me? My husband has built so many cool things for […]
Learning How to Cook Like a True Korean
A friend of mine, Hannah, is a foodie just as I am, and a reader of this blog. When she went to Korea for a business trip, I have to say, I was just the slightest bit envious, since going to Korea one day is a dream of mine, in part because of my fascination […]
Vietnamese Scallion Oil Recipe — Mo Hanh — Easy, Paleo, Vegan, Allergy Friendly
There has been a request for some super simple recipes here, which is why I’ll share this one, even though it seems quite silly to me to share something so simple. But as people said when I shared my fried banana post, even if its not something complicated, it may be something that others wouldn’t […]
Reese’s Flavored Chia Pudding Recipe- Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Chia Dessert- Vegan, Paleo Option
Recently we had a guest over from Namibia, which was really cool. For those that don’t know (I didn’t until she was at our house), Namibia used to be called South West Africa and gained independence from South Africa only in 1990, and is has a very large Afrikaaner population, the Dutch descent people who […]