These chickpea flour veggie cups are a regular breakfast around here. They’re a great dose of morning protein and a good way to use up whatever veggies you have on hand. Completely customizable, too. Want cheese? Toss it in. Hate mushrooms? Leave ’em out. These …
No animals required. The secret to these vegan Italian sausage crumbles is the use of textured vegetable protein, known by those in the know as TVP. Textured vegetable protein, despite its less-than-appealing name, is actually a healthy vegan protein that allows for considerable flexibility in …
Well friends, it’s fall! Summer flew by in a sweaty blur and now it’s rainy days and woodstove fires. I’m not complaining, I was ready. The summer homestead garden was an awesome and humbling success. My pantry is loaded with homegrown, healthy food and I …
Do you need something to do with all those pumpkin seeds you clawed out of your jack o’ lantern? Do you want to eat something salty, delicious, and addictive until you maybe get a stomach ache? Well I’ve got just the thing for you. Dijon …
We’ve been busy here on the homestead, friends. It’s been an impressively wet spring here, even by Pacific Northwest standards. We even had a dusting of snow/hail mid-April! It’s been great for my greens and radishes, but it also means the slug pressure is extra …
Chives put on quite the showy display of edible purple flowers in the spring, and it’s always a joyous sight to behold! Chive blossoms taste mildly like onion, with a flavor that is more mellow and delicate than chive greens. I often snip some chives …
Seed tape is a carrot planter’s best friend. Carrot seeds are miniscule and notoriously dramatic about germinating. If they don’t have everything just right, with conditions just how they like it- psshh forget it. You may as well plant something else. OR switch to using …
Carrot cake. Is there a dessert that is more quintessentially symbolic of both springtime and Easter? I think not. A close runner up would have to be anything with lemon, but today we’re talking carrot cake. And there is no easier (or faster) way to …
What does “chitting” potatoes mean? Chitting potatoes is just a fancy way of saying your spud is growing sprouts before it is even in the soil. It is sometimes referred to as greensprouting. Ever forget about a potato in your pantry and find it growing …
I love a fast and fun sewing project around here, especially if it results in something that is useful and cute, like this fabric corner bookmark. I was browsing tutorials on the web for fast sewing projects on a particularly rainy Pacific Northwest day and …