Cauliflower Leaf Chips Recipe – Vegan, Paleo, and Delicious
I mentioned the other day that I was in the market and got a huge amount of free cauliflower stems and leaves, as they simply toss the lower part of the cauliflowers since people aren’t interested in buying them. In fact, half of my upper shelf in my fridge right now is filled with cauliflower […]
Homemade Prickly Pear Scrap Wine Recipe- DIY Foraged Alcoholic Beverages
I’ve written before about how I enjoy my alcoholic beverages, but have a problem with the price tag. My first recent experiment with making my own hooch, after a break of a few years, was simply using the only fruit I had available in the house at the time- tangerines and a lemon, and it […]
Working Hard on my Cookbook
I want to apologize for neglecting to post on the blog lately… I’ve literally been eating, sleeping and dreaming my foraging cookbook whose deadline is at the end of this month. I’ve been running on 4-6 hours of sleep a night so I can get this done… Of course I knew a while ago when […]
Preparing and Preserving Cheap and Free Past Prime Foods
Yesterday I wrote about how I went to the market and came home with an insane amount of produce, most of it that I got free, and a lot of it past prime. 154 lbs of food that needed to be dealt with when I came home yesterday and all today. The past two days […]
Spicy Baked Sweet Potato Fries Recipe- Paleo, Vegan, Easy
The other night I wanted a treat. I had to go out to a fancy dinner event where I knew there was likely not going to be any food that I could eat, because of my restrictive gluten free, egg free, predominantly paleo diet, and I didn’t want to be sitting there eating boring, simple […]
Larb Gai- Laotian Meat Salad Recipe- Frugal, Paleo, and Vegan Options
I really appreciate traditional recipes from around the world, especially when they use healthy, cheap ingredients that I can get easily. I mentioned to someone how much I love gizzards, that I even wrote a whole manifesto about them, and a friend mentioned to me that if I want a great gizzards recipe, I should […]
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 […]
8 Free Gallons of Expiring Milk- Cheese Making and Beyond
In my community we sometimes get deliveries of free past prime fruits and veggies, dry goods near or past their expiration date, and the occasional dairy product. On Wednesday, among the deliveries were 1 liter cartons of milk, and initially they told everyone they can take 4 per family. But barely anyone took. Why? Because […]
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 […]