Tag: <span>cheese</span>

Wild-herbed Ricotta Cheese

What do you do with soured milk? Make cheese!!! I typically make my own cheese salsa dip (recipe near bottom of this post) these days, but for some time now, I’ve been wanting to make a batch of wild-herbed ricotta. I was making my son’s Caesar salad dressing this morning …

Canada Thistle Flower Bud Cheese Dip (cold)

Ever since I started foraging, I’ve been hearing occasionally about using burdock flower buds and thistle flower buds in place of artichoke to make wild artichoke dip.  Several times I brought home some burdock thinking I’d try this.  Life would get in the way, the burdock stems would dry out, …

Poutine Without the Fries! But not necessarily without the potatoe. . .

Every now and then, I have no choice but to experiment in the kitchen! I’m not a chef by any means, nor do I particularly love being in the kitchen. This means meals are fairly simple and plain for the most part, unless its festive time when I attempt a …

The Lowly and Picked-on Potatoe! (updated reprint from my author blog)

As I began preparing to get my Natural Health Practitioner designation as the career change of choice back in 2019 (events would postpone it till 2021), thoughts about first-world ways of looking at food, food as it’s seen in Scripture, and what to me is basic, common sense logic,converged while …

My Son’s New Caesar Salad Dressing

It’s been awhile since my last blog article, and that’s because of a major offline project going on where my daughter suggested, and then we acted on, the creation of a pop-up apothecary clinic inside a restored steamer trunk!  We are finally at the secondary stage where I will, ideally, …

Taming the Cupboard: When Individual Needs Affect the Grocery Budget

(edit end of 2024:  Originally written when I was seeking to coach Christian single moms around stress, money, and feeding their kids a healthy diet.  The advice here is applicable to everyone however, so it stays posted here) Haphazard management of your grocery budget will impact your ability to manage …