Foraging Cactus Paddles- Nopales/Nopalitos- and Prickly Pears- Tunas

Do you know how often people pick or eat one part of a vegetable or plant, having no clue that another part of that same plant is also edible, and in many cases, even more useful and tasty and versatile than the part they’d been eating until then? (If you want to know more about […]

Chickpea Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies- Gluten Free, Dairy Free

I’m going away this weekend and was asked to bring along dessert. While most people who want me over are happy to accommodate me and my food needs, and cook for my restrictive diet, dessert usually is a bit beyond the ability of most of my hosts who aren’t used to cooking with gluten free flours. My […]

Blackened Fish Recipe- 2 Ways

The first time I’d heard of blackened fish, I was sure it meant that a fish was overcooked so much that it was charred to a nearly inedible state. I didn’t understand why someone would want to advertise their lack of cooking prowess by sharing that they made blacked fish. And then I discovered that […]

Coffee Chicken Recipe

There is something I love about cooking chicken- its so versatile and easy to make; its almost hard to make chicken taste bad. Undercooked or overcooked, yes, but chicken is very forgiving when it comes to flavors- nearly everything tastes good with chicken, which makes it more friendly to experimentation. Because if the experiment doesn’t […]

Gluten Free Cornbread Recipe II- Dairy Free, With Non GF Option

Gluten free vegan cornbread, made with coconut crystals I’ve shared a cornbread recipe of mine in the past, a gluten free version, and while I was happy with that recipe and it did the trick, it wasn’t the cheapest gluten free cornbread in the book, and sometimes I want things a bit different. I think […]

Foraging A Feast- Gourmet Foraged Foods

I’ve been foraging since almost forever, but for the vast majority of my life, it was only a few random things every once in a while. I started seriously foraging, using foraged foods as a regular food source for my family about 2.5 years ago, and ever since then, the way I forage and prepare […]

Hearth and Soul Blog Hop

Welcome back to yet another edition of the Hearth and Soul blog hop. This is where you get the chance each week to share your favorite food related posts with the other visitors to the hop, and you get to check out theirs as well. The Hearth and Soul Hop is about food that not […]

Homemade Meringues Recipe and Marshmallow Fluff

When I go to the city, I pass by bakery after bakery filled with foods I cannot eat, as I am off gluten. I often see meringues there, so tempting to buy, because meringues are completely flour free, but I am sensitive enough to gluten that even foods that touched gluten make me sick, so […]