Tip, Trick & a Recipe: My favorite fast food
(not what you think!)

Before the spinach comes up in my garden, I don’t leave Costco without grabbing a couple of those big containers of the stuff. This dark leafy green is one of the most common items on our table—you never catch me without a huge supply of spinach in the refrigerator. It’s so quick to prepare and […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Are you throwing away free food?

Depending on where you live, there may very well be edible plants in your yard that you could be eating, rather than yanking them out of the garden because they don’t look pretty among your flowers. Lambsquarter is an entirely edible plant related to spinach (and yes, it tastes like spinach), beets, amaranth, and quinoa. […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Big on Basil

What’s an Italian meal without a good hit of basil? I enjoy making pesto with good quality olive oil, pine nuts, and my own homegrown basil. I like adding my basil to soups, stews, and salads, too. Basil is great in pasta sauces, meat marinades, on top of a pizza, and of course, you can’t […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Who knew? (wait till you see what’s in my salad!)

If you want to pretty up a plate of salad greens in a hurry, toss in a few edible flowers. One of the most common edible flowers is the nasturtium. Nasturtiums are both beautiful and delicious. At first bite, nasturtiums have a slightly sweet flavor, but as you chew, they become spicy and taste almost […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Get Saucy with Worcestershire Sauce

There’s an excellent chance that your refrigerator contains a bottle of Worcestershire (pronounced wooster-sheer) sauce. This common (and commonly mispronounced) fermented condiment adds flavor to all kinds of dishes, from shrimp and chicken to burgers and chili. Worcestershire sauce contains some surprising items in its list of ingredients, including anchovies, molasses, chili pepper extract, and […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Pass the Bacon Fat

One of the best parts of living a Paleo lifestyle is that you get to eat lots of bacon. Now, one misconception about Paleo eating is that all we do is eat bacon all day. Yes, we eat plenty of bacon, but we eat nitrate-free bacon sourced from local pastured pigs, and we eat it […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: My heart skips a beat for beets

There’s nothing like a gorgeous purple beet sliced onto a salad, roasted in the oven, or juiced with some greens and other veggies to make a beautifully colored glass of deliciousness. What’s this you say? You don’t love beets? Well, maybe you’re just not doing it right! Beets are in season now and they are […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Star of the spice rack

Have you spotted one of those pretty star-shaped spices at the health food store and wondered what you could do with it if you brought it home with you? Star anise is a beautiful flavoring spice. The fruit of an evergreen tree native to southern China, it gets its name from its star shape (the […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Nuts over apple butter

There is no actual butter in apple butter. Apple butter is a very concentrated type of apple sauce. It’s made by the long, slow cooking of apples. You cook those apples down until they are caramelized and deep brown in color. If you like apple sauce, you’ll love that apple butter has an even more […]