I really kind of can’t believe I haven’t blogged this recipe before. This has been a part of our family repertoire since before we were a family. It was, like, the *one* “fancy” thing my mom ever made and each…
Recipe: Plantains Fried in Browned Butter
I’m known to be rather…well, “excitable” is the word we use in our family. I scream, I clap, I jump up and down, I have a laugh that shakes the rafters. There’s really no mistaking how I feel about something,…
Recipe: Winter Root Vegetable Gratin
This picture is from our Thanksgiving meal last year and it’s been sitting on my hard drive all year waiting to be seasonally appropriate again. I brought a friend with me to our family Thanksgiving, which meant that she was…
Project Put Together: Food Dehydrator
Trying to reduce my gluten intake means I need to find all new snack foods. I love snacking. Dangit, I love it SO MUCH! But I have to let go of the crackers and find something else to eat. When…
Canned Soup
As I try to keep my gluten reduced, trying to eat from scratch, really just cutting out some processed foods “diet”, I knew I needed to give myself a safety net. There are a lot of days around here, a…
Spicy Stuffed Peppers
With how many variations of meat and carbs Bear insists on eating, I’m amazed I haven’t gotten around to trying my hand at stuffed peppers until now. To him it’s just not dinner without a meat and a heaping pile…
Happy Canning Accidents
I’ve loved canning for years, but since making the goal to eat from scratch I have been canning non-stop, whenever I’ve been well enough to stand. The bounty of produce in this region is just ridiculous, and I’ve been going…
Year of Pleasures: Apple peeler
It peels, it slices, it cores, it basically does in 15 seconds what it used to take me 5 minutes to do. It suctions to my counter and all I have to do is turn the crank to go from…
Year of Pleasures: Pear Upside Down Cake
Bear made this from the giant box of pears we bought our last time up to Apple Hill. I’ve had pineapple upside down cake a few times and haven’t really been a fan, but this? Oh my gosh. Oh my…
Greek Orzo Pasta Salad
This was a total “necessity is the mother of invention” moment. I had a house full of people needing to be fed and, thanks to the Great Fraud Alert of 2013, I had no cash for a run to the…