This is the time of year when I love cooking. The garden has taken a back seat this year because of the coffee shop, but we’re still getting a handful of fresh produce. My favorite thing to do with squash (and even carrots and broccoli) is to make them into veggie fritters. Shred or chop...
Category: Nutrition
3 Ways to Use Our Favorite Vegan, Protein Shake
We recently started using a vegan protein powder*. Here’s an excerpt from the company’s description: “… convenient, completely vegan-friendly, and delicious weight management shake mix that provides essential nutrients and only 47 calories per serving. Blended with nonfat dairy; almond, rice or soy milk, or water, [it] can be used as part of a weight-loss strategy of...
{Recipe} Pizza Egg
Follow my blog with Bloglovin One of the foods we miss the most since going grain-free is pizza. We did find a quinoa crust recipe that we indulge in, but Grace came up with a completely grain-free alternative recently…the pizza egg. Basically you make an omelet and top it with sauce and cheese. We’ve found the...
{What’s For Dinner} Lettuce Wraps
Right now, we’re buried in ice and snow during an unusually cold winter. However, there are nagging garden thoughts in the back of my mind. Lettuce and other leafy greens will be on the first fruits of spring. We also have a half a cow in our freezer downstairs–a lot of which is ground beef....
{Recipe} Latkes courtesy of Campbell’s
Half of us are mostly grain free. Two of those are also avoiding phenols. Another is mildly allergic to eggs. Add normal kid pickiness and changing tastes, and cooking a main meal for everyone…impossible. Keeping up with our life while cooking for everyone…also impossible. Food is one of those battles I have chosen not to...
Perfect Primal (or Paleo) Pancakes
For almost two months now, 4 of us have been eating mostly Primal (think Paleo with more dairy). If you don’t know what Paleo is, think grain-free or only fruit, veggies, meat, nuts, and seeds. It started with me trying to kick regular migraines, a nagging joint injury, and unstable blood sugar levels when I...
Veggies at the Ville
Check out my August post at Kidville.
Buying (and Storing) Meat in Bulk
About twice a year, we head out to buy the majority of our meat for the next 5 or so months. I’d tell you where but we really don’t go there for the deal as much as the smorgasbord afterwards. (And they don’t look at your weird when you ask for 60 pounds of chicken). ...