A common question to vegans is, If you don’t eat meat, why do you look for things that look and taste like meat? The best answer I saw to this was a response on Instagram, “Because I don’t want to harm animals!” There sure is a lot of false accusations going on on social media…
Category: Food/Wine (and preserving)
Gathering Folks Together, a Simple Baby Shower, and an Easy One Pot Cake
My home seemed too small to host a baby shower for my friend, but I know after all these years of gathering people, that somehow it all works out perfectly. So my daughter, Emily, and I started planning. In my small space, we amazingly, and comfortably fit eighteen people, laughing and wishing the new mama…
3 Addictive Cheeze Sauces (you will not miss the dairy!)
When Doug and I were vegetarian (still eating dairy), folks would us, “So do you eat cheese?” “Well of course! (What moron would give up cheese?) It doesn’t hurt the animal!” was our automatic response. We took the children to a sustainability fair downtown at the Convention Center a little over ten years ago. A…
How I “Make” Money and a New Chefs Knife
Welcome 2020! You bring with it such promise and excitement for a new year! What are your dreams this year? What are your goals? One of my main goals this year is to up our food production. Not just gardening, though that is a big part of it. We also have a lofty goal of…
Cooking on a Wood Stove and Mushroom Risotto Soup
Cooking on a wood stove is easier than one would think. Consider it a cook top. Add more wood to make it hotter, let it die down some to lower the heat. Use a trivet to adjust heat by raising up pot. Always use cast iron; other pots cannot handle the heat! When I was…
3 Easy Spice Blends and Growing Green Onions
I chopped the fragrant green onions and set them aside. The roots still looked nice so I scooped a little dirt up from the side of one of my plants and stuck the bottoms of the green onion in. Within days they were growing a vibrant green in my Yuletide kitchen. The ginger plant doesn’t…
Basic Quick Bread Formula (and Cranberry Walnut Bread)
Before the popularity of my herb books, before Amazon gave the opportunity for small authors to publish their work, even before I had heard of blogs, I had written three books. There is one remaining copy of each here, created and bound at a copy store, their pages stained. I wrote three plant based cookbooks…
Piled High Nacho Fries (an easy plant based supper)
We particularly love Thrive magazine, which can be found at places like Vitamin Cottage or Whole Foods. It is a thick, colorful, book-like magazine filled with beautiful synopses of bloggers, Instagrammers, and vegans who share tidbits of recipes. The food photography and the visual inspiration is astounding. Since I rarely follow a recipe word for…
Apple Harvest Day
We bumped the wagon haphazardly over the irrigation ditches to get to the next row of apple trees. Many were long picked over but there were still a few varietals heavy with fruit. Old to ancient apple trees lined many acres in perfect rows. We are in the planning stages of our new farm. Where…
The Lost Bottle of Chokecherry Wine
I came across it while moving. It was hiding amongst the vinegar bottles that look the same. A precious bottle of sparkling, party dress red colored Chokecherry wine. My blog post on How to Make Chokecherry Wine from nearly five years ago has been my overwhelmingly most popular article. It has had well over five…
Farmgirl School 