TweetWhat to do with Great Northern Beans (Or other beans) Beans are easy to cook and deal with, as long as you have a bit of time, or think ahead, or if you have a pressure cooker.  They are very versatile, and take well to all kinds of seasoning from spicy to sweet.  That’s why [...]

Tweet 93 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Great Depression. To make this meal you need: bag of lentils water 1 cup rice steak (you can [...]

TweetMy husband is a member of the North American Gardening Club and they sent him info about this nifty little thing.  It’s pretty high tech, yet at the same time, simple.  We all want to know what the best plants are for our houses and gardens.  It really bites to buy some great looking plant [...]

TweetRaw Miso Soup I have been learning a lot about raw food in the last month and a half.  I will put on a complete article about it at some point. For now, here is a simple raw recipe that is great for beginners, and satisfies cravings for meat and cooked food if you’re just [...]

Tweet Is my steak rare, or medium, or well done?  How can you tell without cutting it open and destroying the steak?  Cooking perfect steak is easy with the help of Chef Tips host Jason Hill. Hill explains how to tell when a steak is done by using a simple restaurant method. Now, you’ll always [...]

Tweet 91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Depression. In this episode Clara makes Egg Drop Soup and remembers a story about her brother. From the [...]

Looking for a quick, easy dinner that won’t break your budget and is healthier than fast food? Try a French bread pizza.

Food is, of course, the most basic of our needs beyond water and air (and toilet paper!). Isn’t it funny how we take these simple things for granted? You breathe in and out, you pull on the roll, you turn on the tap, you pop a Lean Cuisine into the microwave, or answer, “Yes”, to “Fries with that?” Easy, automatic, instant. But of course, it’s not. All of these things, with the exception of air, require a complicated combination of infrastructure and workforce to get to us. We only think about it when the system breaks down (imagine a toilet paper factory worker’s strike!), or when we pay our bills.

TweetMy husband caught a beautiful trout a few nights ago. It was full of roe (that’s fish eggs, also known as caviar). I’ve had commercial caviar before, you eat it on crackers with champagne. And I’ve had catfish, bluegill and bass roe before. They are in a little membrane, and you bread and fry them [...]

TweetThis is a neat little book that I read almost in one day. I found a lot of myself in it. Some of you may think that this statement is odd. After all, it’s about a British girl growing up in a small town under a severely religious, perhaps deranged family, to find out that [...]