Half the Lamb Freezer Mix
If you are are looking to reduce your family’s consumption of meat for any reason… budget, health, saving the planet, whatever floats your boat… here is a little time-saving make-ahead tool for your kitchen toolbelt. You can use this method with any ground or shredded meat, but this recipe showcases lamb. If in the spring […]
Imitation Cheese, anyone? To Soy or not to Soy
In general, I am not a fan of faux food. Faux meat, faux cheese, faux butter. There is not a lot of tempeh, seitan, tofu, tapioca, or soy in my diet. A little is fine, but these products are so frequently used to create fake versions of hot dogs, chicken nuggets, burgers, and cheese… It […]
Easy Curry Burrito with Raita Dip – Vegan
When it comes to easy lunches, leftovers are like a free ingredient. And almost anything can be wrapped up in a tortilla and fried, baked, or just wrapped cold for a quick lunch. You probably have your own version of the “quick wrap”… if you eat tortillas. By the way, tortillas do also come in Paleo. […]
The Water Element – Vital Resource
“Wisdom is the virtue that empowers us to stand firmly in the face of the unknown and chart a steady course through uncertain waters.” – Lonnie Jarrett The final phase of the life cycle, the element of winter when resources are stored, in Traditional Chinese this is the water element. This is part of a […]
Black Bean Bites
Protein packs that use up stale tortilla chips. I’m in! In fact, this uses up several leftovers in my fridge, transforming them into something new and very munchable. Blue corn tortilla chips… getting a wee bit stale. Sweet potato corn chips. Also used up to top mac and cheese. Crushed chips = a new ingredient! […]
Sweet Potato Casserole Cake
It’s about to get all “Chopped” up in here. What do you do when you buy too many Japanese Jeweled Sweet Potatoes? You could make casseroles. What do you do when you make too many casseroles? Let them eat cake! My local market recently had piles of these beautiful deeply colored sweet potatoes, labeled Japanese […]
Creamy Cashew Mac topped with Crunchy Sweet Potato Tortilla Chips
I am blessed with a very cool little group of frugal friends. No bargain goes unnoticed, no opportunity to simplify life is missed, and nothing is wasted. Even food scraps are transformed and repurposed into valuable time-saving and money-saving morsels. In that spirit, I am turning to my own cupboards to see what little treasures […]
Easy Creamy Cashew Sauce
This delicious sauce came from some raw cashew flour that needed to be used up. It worked out really well! In fact, I like this method better than soaking whole cashews for puree. Ground cashew soaked up the water beautifully and then easily blended into a silky smooth texture. Even using a cheap blender, there […]
Candied Buddha’s Hand
Buddha’s Hand may look like something from another planet, but it is essentially just a lemon with fingers. A very fragrant and much less bitter lemon with fingers. How cool is that! You can use Buddha’s hand pretty much any way you use lemon peel. It is not juicy, but you can eat the entire […]
Chinese Salty Eggs
To make traditional Chinese Mooncakes with egg yolks in the center, you need salty eggs. To make salty eggs, you need 30 days. Homemade mooncakes are so much better than processed store-bought mooncakes. I am not sure they are really even in the same category. We will talk “mooncakes” again soon. Salty eggs are EASY! […]