Beans Made EasyWhat 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 [...]

Great Depression Cooking Ep:7 – Poorman’s Feast
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 [...]

Cool Gadget on My Wishlist – Easy Bloom Plant SensorMy 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.  [...]

Raw Miso Soup – 10 minutes or less recipeRaw 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 [...]

Cooking Perfect Steak- Is it rare or well done?
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 [...]

Great Depression Cooking Episode:2 – Egg Drop Soup
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 [...]

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.

New – Most Simple Delectable Recipe for Trout RoeMy 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 [...]

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonThis 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 [...]