My first encounter with wild edibles was quite a few years ago before I had kids when I was visiting a good friend in Massachusetts. A friend of hers was coming over for lunch and arrived with a huge handful of stuff she called wild ramp which she had found on the side of the…
Category: Food
Moist and Fluffy Chocolate Espresso Muffins
Frequently I make up my own dinner recipes, marinades etc. but I have never been able to make up a recipe that involved baking until now. I recently got a kitchen scale and started researching about ratios in baking. I’ve learned that for muffins you should combine 2 parts flower with 2 parts liquid with 1…
Slow Cooker Yogurt – Make Yogurt In Your Slow Cooker or CrockPot
So I’ve always thought that I didn’t like yogurt but I buy it because my kids do. Purchasing organic yogurt (greek yogurt too) can get expensive and I’ve heard that you can make yogurt in a slow cooker so I started looking around at various recipes for slow cooker yogurt and found some short and…
5 Unique Vegetable Gardens
With our greenhouse progress slowed due to heavy rain I’m stuck just thinking about gardens so I’ve decided to put together a list of 5 of the most unique vegetable garden’s that I’ve come across online. In the desert there is limited opportunity to grow your own food but over at Desertification they figured it out how to…
Food for Thought – Leftovers
We are always trying to do our best to buy organic and eat whole foods but we are really bad with leftovers. They sit in our fridge uneaten for weeks. We have things growing in there that could sprout legs and walk away. While browsing the web contemplating breakfast this morning I came across this great…
Building the Greenhouse – Part 1
[ad name=”Amazon Patio Lawn and Garden”] We’ve been busy all weekend working on a greenhouse for our deck. We live in a contemporary with very little space inside the house. We have a large yard and nice deck though. Every year I struggle with the starts and where to put them. I sit them on…
Thinking about the Vegetable Garden
With the mercury hitting the high 40s yesterday it got me thinking about our garden. This will be our third year of vegetable gardening and each year we get a little bit better at it. Last year was our first foray into Square Foot Gardening . Instead of having crazy mounds like we did our first year we…