Meatloaf with Roasted Brussels Sprouts

I love meatloaf. It’s one of those comforting foods that makes me feel like a kid again but recently I have started eating differently and have cut out all grains, gluten, refined sugars, and basically most highly processed things. This poses a problem because  my meatloaf always had bread crumbs in it to bind things, soak up…

How to Peel Garlic in Seconds

I hate peeling garlic but I love to use it when I cook. A while back on the radio I heard about a method for peeling garlic that takes mere seconds. Now I don’t have to struggle I just shake. Continue Reading ….

Moist Whole Wheat Carrot Honey Muffins

I have a ton of carrots from our CSA (not so many from our garden) and I’m always trying to do some thing new with them. So far this summer I’ve made meatloaf with carrots, carrot salads, roasted carrots and candied carrots but I haven’t baked them. To this end I came up with a…

Taming Tomatoes with a Telephone Pole Trellis

Our tomatoes are growing well and getting tall so over the weekend we decided to trellis them, but just like in previous years we were at a loss as to how. Over the years I have researched and tried various methods of staking, containing, stringing up and controlling the tomatoes without much success. They usually…

The (mostly) Weed Free Garden

I want to be honest for a second, we are fairly lazy gardeners. It doesn’t help that the garden is down the hill and that we’re not fans of weeding. We usually leave the weeds until they are to the point of almost overtaking everything! Despite letting it get totally overrun with weeds we still…

The Vegetable Garden – Year Three

We finally got our seeds in about a week ago and I’m hoping the fact that we’re staring them in the greenhouse will give them a boost and get them up to speed. This year I have decided to fill the entire garden all 110 squares of it. We have some repair work and tilling…

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…

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…

One Chicken, Two Easy Meals.

We are still fairly new to the non vegetarian lifestyle.  Up until about 6 months ago my husband and children were vegetarians.  I was not but never cooked meat in the house.  In a quest to eat more whole foods and natural non processed foods my family decided to eat meat at home.  We purchase our chickens and grass fed beef through a…

Last Farm Pickup

Our last trip to the farm yesterday was uneventful and unceremoniously quick which is unusual. It has been a slow summer for the crops with the unseasonal heat, deer and lack of rain our share has been meek. The food is most certainly not the only reason we have joined our CSA though. Helping to…