Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Deliciously Easy Ramp Carbonara Recipe: A Seasonal Twist on a Classic Favorite

Deliciously Easy Ramp Carbonara Recipe: A Seasonal Twist on a Classic Favorite
Spring has spring here in West Virginia and that means one thing...RAMP SEASON!  You see, Appalachian cuisine is traditionally simple.  It's comprised mostly of what people grow, hunt, and forage.  I can remember countess hours spent in the woods with my grandpa foraging mushrooms, berries, an…

Monday, March 25, 2024

Simple Chickpea Salad Sandwich Recipe

Simple Chickpea Salad Sandwich Recipe
Whenever I tell people that I am mostly plant-based the first thing they say is "I could never do that.  I love (fill in the blank) too much."  The thing is there is nothing that I loved from a traditional American Standard Diet that I can't have in a plant-based version.  Sometimes y…

Friday, March 22, 2024

Easy One Pot Taco Pasta Recipe

Easy One Pot Taco Pasta Recipe
The response to last week's Frugal Friday/5 Ingredient Friday (we're still working on that name) was HUGE!  I can see that we are all looking for ways that we can save on groceries as well as create flavorful and filling meals for our families.  This is what I try to accomplish with dinner…

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Easy One Pot Sausage and Rice Bake

Easy One Pot Sausage and Rice Bake
There was a time in my life, back when I was learning how to cook, when I spent hours researching and cultivating these beautiful meals.  I was all about building skill and technique.  It was quite pretentious.  Well, fast forward 12 years later and I am a working homeschool mom, who is crazy busy…

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Mongolian Tofu Recipe

Mongolian Tofu Recipe
When I started to eat more plant-based one of the things I was worried about it that I wouldn't be able to eat the foods that I love.  That it would too complicated to acquire the special ingredients needed to make things taste right, and so on, and so on.  The thing is that couldn't be fur…

Friday, March 15, 2024

5 Ingredient Meatball Subs

5 Ingredient Meatball Subs
I'm starting something new on Fridays here on the blog.  I don't know exactly what I'm to call it.  Maybe Frugal Friday or 5 Ingredient Friday.  I think we will have to let it decide for itself, but basically I want to dedicate Fridays to inexpensive meals for you and your family that d…

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Simple Vegetable Beef Soup

Simple Vegetable Beef Soup
I have a confession.  Sometimes I over complicate things.  As a food blogger I'm always trying to reinvent the wheel, come up with the next great thing, etc that sometimes I lose sight of what makes a great recipe great.  Take this Simple Vegetable Beef Soup Recipe .   The other day I was watchi…