Category: Cooking

  • Roasted Root Veggies – Again

    Another day where I got home late from school and had just a few minutes to load the kidlets into the car and head to music class – their music class, not mine. So in those couple of minutes I very quickly coarse chopped a selection of root veggies – six carrots, two yams, an…

  • Butternut Squash

    Dinner tonight – I took one of the butternut squashes that we harvested from our front yard garden and peeled it and then cut it to cubes about one inch by one inch.  I picked the cubes of butternut squash into a baking dish, poured on a couple tablespoons of olive oil, a shake of…

  • Tomato Corn Chowder 

    If you are tired of the soups you have been making and you want a soul-warming soup that is relatively quick and easy to make and has no meat, check out the Mennonite Girls Can Cook recipe for Tomato Corn Chowder. We had it for lunch today and it is a perfect meal for an…

  • When You Forget Your Lunch

    When you forget your lunch AND your wallet at home on the same day, it is awesome to be able to come home and quickly prepare a healthy snack.     I put a small pot of steamed broccoli and half a zucchini (chopped) from the front yard garden and a handful of rice from last…

  • Fermented Buckwheat Loaf Pt 2

    We tried the fermented buck wheat loaf with 3 cups of buckwheat this time.  The 2 cup buckwheat fermented loaf calls for a half teaspoon of salt. We doubled the salt to 1 teaspoon for 3 cups of buckwheat and it still could’ve used a little bit more. Of course that is just personal taste. …

  • Embracing the Grilling Lifestyle 

    Yes, I am clearly embracing the grilling lifestyle! Other than the baby potatoes, all of the feast pictured below came off the grill.       

  • Buckwheat Loaf

    More on this later but for a visual taste, here is a picture of a naturally fermented buckwheat loaf – I call it a loaf, not bread. Recipe to follow-    

  • Grilling Adventure Sausage Edition

    My grilling adventure continues. This time we had a total sausage fest.    One of the tools I picked up this week was a quick-read thermometer. Safety first when grilling!  I’ve noticed that I have not been doing my tin-foil bag of onions on the grill  recently. I’ll have to get back into the habit. …

  • How to Bake a Potato 

    How awesome is this?! To read more from these foodies, check out the Foodies Inc Facebook page.

  • Grilling Corn Season is Here

    It has been so hot in our home over the last few days that I really could not take the heat in the kitchen. So just as the saying goes, I got out of the kitchen. Of course there are still hungry people in our home who require food so what to do? Go to…