Healthy recipes from edible plants, the garden. No processed sugar cooking, low carb cooking. Eliminating processed foods.
We love to take big salad bowls and walk around our yard and garden, building our salads like we’re at a salad bar. We gather a combination of cultivar plants and native plants and flowers to build colorful, delicious and nutritious salads. I showed my husband my salad today, and he said, “It’s like salad art.”
Do you feel like you aren’t creative? Or maybe you feel like you are creative, but your creativity is only channeled in a few directions? For years, as either a primary or sole support of a large family, I funneled my creativity through the filter of “can it be monetized?” If I could justify my…
What I’m learning from the pandemic that could be one of the greatest gifts that God could give us … if we will learn to use it. My husband and I ended up getting Covid while we were in Arizona a few weeks ago. We’d held out without getting it til then. We’d spent the…
Ease your cold symptoms with nature’s ready medicinal plants – mullein, plantain and elderberry. Here’s my recipe for homemade, straight-from the-yard, Mullein, Plantain, Elderberry Tea.
Quick, easy, healthy and delicious white albacore tuna recipe – includes grapes, cucumbers, tomatoes, basil, etc. My mother-in-law knows I love white albacore tuna. This Christmas she sent us a “surprise of the day” 12 Days of Christmas box. She instructed us to pull a random gift out of the box each day leading up…
My mother had breast cancer in a duct of one of her breasts and had that breast removed. My sister had breast cancer within the last couple years and had a double mastectomy. Obviously, caring for my breasts is a top concern. In addition to getting checked regularly and eating healthy, I decided to put…
We live in Northwest Georgia and the South is known for bugs. We’d prefer not to use a bunch of toxic chemicals in our house, so I researched and found a way to make an all natural bug spray recipe. It uses natural items that can kill insects like roaches and beetles. The main active…
My daughter has been gluten-free for about six months. I made her this bread for Thanksgiving, and she said it was the best thing she’s eaten in six months. I really enjoyed it too. I’m always looking for ways to use natural sugars and stay away from white processed flour. I buy buckets of groats…
Wondering what to do with your overgrown zucchini or an abundance of regular ones? Here’s a simple and delicious use. You can also use cushaw squash in place of the zucchini. Cushaws are a big winter squash we grow in the South that looks like a gourd, but can be used in pumpkin-style pies, breads….
In the beginning of November, we harvest lots of jalapeño peppers and our greens start coming in. Below you’ll find my simple yet delicious stuffed jalapeno recipe with a Greek yogurt dip and a fresh garden salad that is out of this world! Garden Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette Dressing We’ve been using raised bed gardening…
