We just had our first frost. We harvested all of our remaining basil, eggplant, tomatoes, peppers and some herbs in preparation for our first frost. Sarah made our pesto recipe with all of the basil. I have some kind of reaction to pine nuts and they change my tastebuds so that sweet tastes bitter for […]
With so many people growing or expanding their vegetable garden this year it has caused shortages of several things in our area. Seed companies are sold out of some seeds including mail order and local suppliers. Canning jars and lids are in really short supply. New and used freezers are really hard to find in
We have been trying different ways to hard boil our fresh eggs so that they peel easily. We’ve tried adding vinegar to the water, dunking them in ice water, using a steamer basket, and just letting the eggs sit in the fridge so they ‘age’ a few weeks before hard boiling them. None of those
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“There is no food, only ingredients to make food.”, says Ben. “Well then make your own food!” we respond. We don’t buy processed foods very often. We always have lots of healthy food (ingredients) in the house, but we don’t usually buy snacks that we can just open the bag and devour them. It turns
Eating live, fermented foods like sauerkraut have been proven to be beneficial to your health in many studies. The stuff you buy in the store is heat processed during canning and essentially dead. It is so easy to make your own sauerkraut that I couldn’t believe it when we learned how. So, we had to
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-china-study-cookbook-phd-leanne-campbell/1114264823?ean=9781937856755 About two and half years ago, Loren and I significantly changed our diets to cut out most meat and include more vegetarian recipes. We were having loads of kitchen fun cooking up delicious and seemingly more nutritious recipes… but it turns out that substituting chunks of cheese and cups of creamy sauces for the