If you have no other reason to make your own sourdough starter, I’m telling you now, this is it! This no knead sourdough pizza has changed my life, and I know it will change yours as well. I promise! I’m not going to say that making this sourdough pizza is as easy as ordering out…
Cook
Cooking and preserving traditional food from scratch is one of my passions, and it’s even better if it includes homegrown, foraged, or fermented ingredients. I prefer to use whole foods and many of my recipes use herbs, flowers, and other fresh from the garden ingredients. Sourdough is another passion, and I also have a thing for cooking in cast iron pans!
Learn how to make sourdough tortillas, roasted beets and their greens, and traditional nitrate free corned beef.
Bolted Arugula Pesto
I knew that I would write this post one of these days, but I figured that it would be later this spring or summer. However, I went to my Mom’s place in the Monterey Bay last week and this is what I saw in her garden. She had planted arugula last fall and her and…
How to Make Yogurt in a Dehydrator
Did you know that all you need to make yogurt is yogurt? And milk, of course. That’s why fermenting is so cool! You’re basically transporting a bit of the beneficial bacteria to a new medium so that it will continue to multiply and turn into something even more awesome. It’s actually almost like pre-digestion in…
Simple Pot Roast
This is the perfect recipe for winter, although it doesn’t quite feel like winter where I’m at! I know that those of you in other parts of the country are getting pounded with snow and ice, however, so this is for you. Just like with Roast Chicken and Slow Cooker Pork Shoulder, this Simple Pot…
The Easiest No Knead Sourdough Bread
You must have known this was coming after my homemade sourdough starter post last week, and I hope you’re happy about it because this bread is amazing! Not only is it wonderfully tasty and sour, but it is really easy to make. I’m sure you’ve heard of the no knead bread craze, but it has changed…
Beans with Bacon and Kale
One goal of mine with this blog is to show all of you how cooking real food from scratch is not only better for you, but easy. It does require a little bit of forethought, but once you get into the mindset of thinking a day or two ahead of time, it almost makes life…
How to Make Sourdough Starter
This post is an important beginning for your health. While I realize that there are some people who genuinely need to avoid gluten completely (celiacs, mainly), for the rest of us it makes sense to ferment the wheat (or other grains) before eating. It’s true that grain in its natural form really isn’t great food…
How to Grow Sprouts
When there’s not a lot of fresh produce coming out of your garden in these colder months, it’s time to grow right in your own kitchen! Today I’m going to show you how to grow sprouts, the ultimate hippie food for good reason with their extremely high nutritional content. I am seriously excited about this…
Get the Most out of Your Chicken Part 2: How to Make Chicken Stock
Hello, this is Part 2 in a series about getting the most out of your chicken. Check out Part 1! Now that you’ve roasted your Lemon Herb Chicken, it’s time to talk about how to make chicken stock. If you are cooking whole chickens regularly, or even if you’re just cooking bone-in chicken pieces, there…
Get the Most out of Your Chicken Part 1: How to Roast a Chicken
This is Part 1 in a series about getting the most out of your chicken, check out Part 2! Today I’m going to show you how to make an amazing lemon herb roasted chicken. I know, I know, there are hundreds of recipes for roasting a whole chicken on the internets. But, I’m starting this…
