It's Simple Lives Thursday! My favorite day of the week where you share your tips and recipes for living a simple life. Below you'll find the linky to add your post to. Please read and follow the Simple Lives Thursday bloghop rules 1. If linking real, traditional and simple recipes, please make sure all ingredients used are whole. Such as whole grains, vegetables, legumes, meats, even sugar. In order to keep the integrity of "nourishing" food, we will delete any recipes that utilize ... continue reading...
A Recipe: Whole Wheat, Green (Spring) Garlic and Prosciutto Tart
I had been dreaming about a tart for awhile. Especially after grabbing a vibrant bunch of green garlic from Coyote Run Farm at my local farmers market. Green garlic is another one of my favorite spring veggies. Immature garlic that resembles overgrown green onions or scallions. The flavor is of garlic, however, much milder. It tastes wonderful in savory Spring dishes or can be used to flavor fermented vegetables or even chopped finely to compliment freshly churned butter. The ... continue reading...
Simple Lives Thursday, 46th Edition
It's Simple Lives Thursday! My favorite day of the week where you share your tips and recipes for living a simple life. Below you'll find the linky to add your post to. Please read and follow the Simple Lives Thursday bloghop rules 1. If linking real, traditional and simple recipes, please make sure all ingredients used are whole. Such as whole grains, vegetables, legumes, meats, even sugar. In order to keep the integrity of "nourishing" food, we will delete any recipes that utilize ... continue reading...
Mejillones en Escabeche, Marinated Mussels
The escabeche technique is one of the most traditional in Spanish gastronomy. Usually made up of olive oil, vinegar, garlic, salt, bay leaf and pepper, with the possible addition of herbs such as oregano and thyme, or spices such as pimentón. Throughout Spain you can purchase mejillones in escabeche in tin cans. My boys and I absolutely adore them. When visiting Spain, one of the first stops we make is the corner grocer to stock up on these tasty and nourishing morsels. In the states I ... continue reading...
Homemade Tarragon Vinegar
This has been the year that I have become enamored with herbs. From being used in my families cultural traditions for generations to their culinary uses and medicinal properties. They take a simple meal and turn it into something exquisite and at the same time heal us from within and help aid our food in digestion. Over the past few years of being involved in the "real food" movement I've come to realize that we often we try to pin point a certain food or a certain method of making ... continue reading...
