Homemade Play Dough Recipe- Gluten Free, Chemical Free
The other day my kids went over to their friend’s house and had a fun time playing with play dough, and asked to have play dough at home as well. The thing is- I prefer not to buy play dough since it is usually filled with all sorts of nasty chemicals, and all the homemade […]
Gluten Free Mushroom “Barley” Soup Recipe- With Buckwheat. Vegan Option
I grew up on mushroom barley soup. That is one of those foods that I consider to be a comfort food, evoking special warm feelings inside, of satiation, comfort, and love. I know- weird how something like certain foods affect us emotionally, but they do. The thing is- I haven’t been able to have mushroom […]
Apple Raisin Cookies Recipe- Sugar Free, Gluten Free, Vegan
It’s official. White sugar definitely gets me nauseous- I eat just a little square of chocolate, and I’ll feel queasy for hours after, if not the whole day. It’s not worth it for me to cheat even for a little bite, because I end up paying for it and suffering from it for so much […]
Chicken Potato Vegetable Stew Recipe- Gluten Free, Grain Free, Dairy Free
With this cold weather, and not venturing out of the house much, I am doing a lot of cooking, and a lot of trying out new recipes using what we have in the house… and so many of them came out so wonderfully that I wanted to share them with you. And now I have […]
Fennel and Lemon Risotto Recipe- Dairy Free, with Vegan Option
It is FREEZING here today. As in “wear a gajjilion layers and don’t even think about leaving the house” kind of day. The kind of day that I didn’t send my kids to school because there’s no way on earth I wanted my kids going outside in such cold and icky weather. And our house […]
Getting Pickier Eaters to Eat Legumes and Cheaper Foods
Lentil beef bolognese I used to be able to say that my kids were not picky and would eat anything I put in front of them. That really helped financially, because I could make what my finances allowed, and all would be well and good. Well, yea. All good things come to an end. My […]
Russian Vinegret Recipe- Vegan, Sugar Free, Cheap
Time is short, but I wanted to leave you this recipe for Russian vinegret. It sounds like it should be a salad dressing, like a vinaigrette, but it is something completely different- it is a salad made with cooked potatoes, beets, carrots, mayonnaise and often pickles. I had heard about it for a while but […]
Vegan Tomato Cobbler Recipe- With Gluten Free Option
All day I’ve been trying to write a blog post. But so many things came up, requiring my attention, so that I couldn’t even sit down to type up a hand written blog post, or even a more complex recipe requiring a long introduction. On top of that, my 2 year old daughter, Anneliese, has […]
Homemade Applesauce Recipe- How to Make it Frugally and Healthy
Someone asked on a cooking group I’m in for a recipe to make applesauce. I never thought applesauce really needed a recipe, but assumed I had one on my site anyhow. I didn’t. There really are two ways to make applesauce- one is raw and one is cooked, but since most people associate applesauce with […]
Homemade Vegan Omelet Recipe From Red Lentils and How to Make a Sneaky Cheap Omelet
Vegan zucchini omelet. I’m a terribly impatient omelet flipper, vegan omelet or not. Ever since posting why it’s generally cheaper to use egg replacements, even for egg heavy dishes like quiches, I was hoping we’d lower our egg usage in our house, but to be honest, our egg usage didn’t go down tremendously. Last month […]
