Duck Liver Pâté
Pâté is a savory peasant food gone elegant. You can have it on toast with your soup for lunch or serve it as a canapé at your next party. If you make it yourself, you will save a lot of money and control the ingredients so that it is health-giving too.
Economics of Bean Brownies
For gluten free eaters, a bean brownie recipe is an asset. But these brownies are much more than just the freedom to enjoy a treat without gluten. Unlike mixes made from overprocessed powders, bean brownies offer real food value.
Serendipity Gluten Free Pizza
At Earl’s I had a thin crust, gluten free pizza that amazed me. As a thin crust pizza fan, I replicated it at home. A cost comparison with our standard gluten free pizza showed that serendipity pizzas are definitely less expensive per person.
Hot Pepper Poppers
The busy harvest season requires plenty of creativity. These fresh-from-the-garden, gluten-free hot pepper poppers are an autumn treat that quenches any impulse to buy expensive, frozen, deep-fried jalapeño poppers from the grocery store.
Keto Mug Breads
Have you discovered mug bread? Buns, biscuits, muffins, even chocolate cake can be ready in only a few minutes with my template and ingredient quick reference sheet. More good news – these five quick and easy recipes are Keto-friendly. Enjoy!
Can’t Be Beet GF Cake
Summer birthdays and plentiful garden vegetables. This could be a carrot cake, a zucchini cake, a beet cake or a combination of all three. Any way you slice it, this nutritious cake is healthy enough to eat for breakfast.
Grill Bolting Buttercrunch
Abundant lettuce meets unseasonably hot, sunny weather. The lettuce is stressed so instead of forming a nice leafy heads, it bolts. I hated to pull them. How about grilled bolting buttercrunch?
Keto Meringue Mushrooms
Until now I did not know that meringue mushrooms are a thing, and I certainly could not imagine that a sweet treat made with meringue could be keto-friendly. I’m older and wiser now. Enjoy!
Crab Apple Hot Pepper Jelly
Although I work hard at preserving our harvest, chances are you won't find much canning on my shelves. That's because anything that requires sugar for preservation is on our "Do Not Eat" list. However, I do make one small exception. Because charming red crab apples...
Slow Roasted Duck
Roast duck. So decadent, right? Surprisingly, slow roasting a duck turns out to be easy and economical. For well over a year now, we've consistently been able to buy frozen young ducks at our local grocery store for $2 a pound. We look for the largest one we can find,...
Hemp Heart Milk
Sometimes a brilliantly simple solution presents itself for a problem you didn't realize you had. We are a mostly dairy-free household and I never buy cow's milk, except to combat mildew on the squash vines in August (but that's a different story). I buy canned...
Coconut Milk Yogurt
Cow's milk has been gone from our diet so long that living without it is easy. If goat feta or chèvre is on hand, there's nothing much to miss ... mostly ... except yogurt. Plain, live culture yogurt used to be one of my favourite foods, not to mention an easy way to...
Lime Mint Purslane Salad
I've been eating purslane in smoothies, soups, and cooked dishes for years because it's so nutritious, not to mention completely easy trouble-free to "grow" in the garden. This is my first purslane-based salad, a perfect sweet and sour combination of early summer...
Bushfire Salts
Every summer we grow a variety of hot peppers and dry them for our gift-giving projects. This is a craft, not a business, which means it's okay that no two years ever produce the same blends. Here are the finishing salts we created for 2018. BushFire Allium Hot Salt...
Sauerkraut
In the past decade, there has been a rising tide of research and resultant knowledge about the human microbiome. Probiotics are becoming as commonly familiar as antibiotics have been in our lifetime. The good news is that probiotics are freely available and easy to...
Spruce Tip Shortbread
I come from a long line of creative bread, muffin, cookie and pie bakers. Delicious baking is a family tradition and a memorable part of any celebration. With spruce tip shortbread, a new tradition begins. This wonderful shortbread is exactly right to celebrate the...
Coconut Flour Biscuits
How to Make Gluten-Free Biscuits If you've just found out you're gluten-intolerant, it feels like the bottom fell out of your world. What will you eat? You wish there was some way you could still have biscuits ... buns ... bread. And if you are trying to eat...
Sunshine Soup
Seasonal eating is a big part of how I manage our food supply, so now is the time for squash and pumpkins to take centre stage. As we move toward winter, the daylight hours wane and, in the Pacific Northwest, we also have a lot of cloud cover. Enter seasonal affective...
Purslane and Quinoa
Purslane volunteers in my plot every summer, so for weeks on end I come back from the garden with bags of this delicious bonus vegetable. Here is the way I most often prepare it. Omit the meat if you prefer a vegetarian meal, which is equally tasty. Purslane and...
Garden Relish
I've been planning to make relish for several weeks and now cucumber and zucchini production has slowed. I don't have enough of either to do a batch of relish. Never mind, I'll try combining them. After researching recipes I came up with this combination based on what...
Pumpkin Spice Mousse
Ingredients 1/2 tablespoon gelatin 1/2 cup water filtered 1 can coconut milk organic 2 cups pumpkin or squash baked and cooled 1/4 cup coconut sugar (or substitute stevia) cinnamon, allspice, ginger, cloves, nutmeg 1 teaspoon vanilla natural 1 tablespoon maple syrup...
Pumpkin Seed and Dandelion Leaf Pesto
You don't have to limit yourself to spring dandelions. Just pick the newer growth and avoid the old leaves 4 cups young dandelion leaves 1/2 cup olive oil 1 or 2 garlic cloves two sprigs basil 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds 1/4 teaspoon sea salt Lightly chop the dandelion...
Summer Harvest Soup
8 cups homemade chicken broth 2 cups carrots, sliced 1 medium onion chopped 4 stalks of celery, sliced 1-2 cloves of garlic, chppped 4 cups zucchini, cubed 1 cup parsley, chopped 1 cup purslane, chopped 4 sprigs of fresh basil or 1 teaspoon dried Heat the broth in a...
Kale Borscht
You've probably guessed that we're big on soup. We each take a jar to work for our lunch every day and it's always homemade. Yesterday's trip to the garden gave us two onions, two zucchinis, a quart of Fortex beans, four gigantic Cylindra beets and plenty of kale....
Green Velvet Soup
I made another easy summer soup on the weekend. Necessity is the mother of invention and I didn’t feel like using those giant zucchinis for baking. This soup turned out to be velvety, creamy and delicious. 1 sweet onion, diced 1 tablespoon butter 5-8 cloves garlic,...
Snap Pea Soup
I picked the bulk of the snap peas last week. After two weeks of hot, dry weather, not many of the pods looked nice enough to serve raw, although they still tasted fine. I also noticed the occasional pod with a worm inside, another reason not to put these out on a...
Crunchy Kale Chips
At our house, summer kale gets ignored when there are so many other vegetables to enjoy. Its flavour is a little strong until the cold weather hits and it sweetens up. But kale chips are another story. These are tasty, crispy, salty, and the pungency only adds to the...