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…
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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.
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…
