During the holiday season, I most enjoy celebrating my heritage by making traditional Spanish Christmas treats that my family has come to love. Polvorones, mantecados, buñuelos de viento, rosquillas, alfajores, and turrón de Navidad. Although so far away, it’s through these traditional family recipes that we are able to keep a Little Bit of Spain ... Read More »

First a little homeschooling update and then I’ll get to the real point of this post… Well homeschooling definitely took much more of my time this fall than I expected.  We’re still streamlining things around here all the time so I think... Read More »

Homemade Christmas Gifts Would you like a homemade Christmas gift that doesn’t come off cheesy?  Or maybe just a sensual gift for yourself?! I finally got a look at this book today and knew I had to tell you about it fast, because the ideas in here would be PERFECT ... Read More »

A Former Food Industry Insider Dishes on Big Food Profits After working as a processed food marketer for over 15 years Bruce Bradley has had enough of Big Food companies, and he’s taking a stand for real food. At his website brucebradley.com he shares the tricks, traps... Read More »

I love re-purposing leftovers and making a stir fry accomplishes another goal as well – to use up vegetables from my CSA in my fridge.  Here I am using some leftover steak but you could really use any leftover meat for this recipe. I was experimenting with various flavors and it wasn’t quite right until... Read More »

Want to know how to make naturally fermented, homemade sauerkraut, but are intimidated by the process? How about homemade honey mead or hard apple cider? In a new cookbook written by one of my Real Food Lovin' Friends, Alex Lewin, you'll learn how to soothe tummy aches with homemade ginger ale. You'll easily dish ... Read More »

If eating higher fat foods causes you digestive distress like constipation, nausea, or gas, try supplementing your diet with ox bile and bitters -- two traditional remedies with long and rich histories in both medicine and cuisine. [[This is a summary only. Keep reading by clicking on the Title above.]] Read More »

If you like to win fun, useful and healthy prizes, and who the heck doesn’t like to WIN, then today is your day! In the spirit of generosity and to show my appreciation for your readership, I am sponsoring giveaways (yes the plural means ... Read More »

When so many are suffering and heartbroken after Friday’s shootings, it seems wrong somehow to just go on with life and ramble on about whatever in this Monday post, but I don’t know what else to do except keep up the prayers for ... Read More »

I was interested in doing something fresh and new with the lamb shoulder roasts I have in my deep freezer. I lucked out on the inspiration front when I saw that fennel was in my CSA box this week. Building on the brisket recipe... Read More »