Category: Kitchen
Fermented Salsa with Green Tomatoes and Peppers Fermented Salsa is so easy and delicious! This is the perfect recipe for using up all those last garden odds and ends as the harvest season winds down and the first fall frost approaches. For us, that’s likely to be sometime[…]
Egg Preservation How we Save our Summer Eggs for Winter Despite the cold, wet, dreary days, we KNOW that spring is coming. Because ~ look! Eggs, eggs, and more eggs! The Winter Egg Famine As the daylight hours decrease in late fall, the number of eggs that[…]
Shopping for Real Food In order to make real food an affordable option for your family, you’ve got to know where to shop. Whole Foods and other health food stores are convenient for quick stops and sometimes have the best price on a specific item (or great sales),[…]
Money Saving Tips From Our Family to Yours Transitioning to a real food diet can come as quite a shock to the pocketbook. And while you may be fully convinced that making the switch is necessary for the health of your family (and indeed it is), figuring out[…]
Did you realize that a typical strawberry jam recipe calls for 4 cups of fruit and up to 8 CUPS OF SUGAR! !!! What!? That is not okay with me. I much prefer our honey sweetened strawberry freezer jam. It calls for just 1 cup of honey per[…]
Traditional Foods A Traditional Foods Diet is just what it sounds like. It’s about growing, preparing, and eating food in a way that is consistent with how all people throughout all of history (until very recent times) have grown, prepared, and eaten their food. No counting calories[…]
Beans are a nutritious and affordable food, full of antioxidants, fiber, protein, vitamins and minerals, even omega-3s. Unfortunately for most people, beans are also the cause of terrible, um.. digestive distress. The reason is that beans contain large complex sugars called oligosaccharides. We humans do not produce the enzymes[…]
For a thousand years or more “chicken soup” has been prescribed by grandmothers all over the world to treat illness. And for good reason! Chicken soup – or a bone broth made from the leftover bones – is highly immune-boosting, soothes and heals the gut, relieves joint pain,[…]
Nuts are full of life-giving vitamins and minerals, fiber, fats, and protein, but have you ever noticed that when you eat a few too many they can tend to sit very heavily in the stomach? (Read more about why traditional preparation of / soaking nuts, beans, and grains[…]
This recipe for a no-knead sourdough loaf is definitely a favorite! Because honestly, what could make a person happier than warm, crusty sourdough bread slathered in butter? Nothing. At all. In the whole wide world. Unless, of course, it were warm, crusty sourdough bread slathered in butter ~[…]
Making Sourdough Work for Your Real Life This post is about how I make sourdough work in my real-life kitchen ~ A simple guide to sourdough for real-life mamas. I am not a sourdough expert. At all. So, if you are looking for a post about how to[…]
Over the years we’ve been gluten-free and at times even grain-free,, but at present our family is able to enjoy a moderate amount of grains without any adverse effects. And boy are we happy to have our bread back!! Come along as I explain how and why we[…]