Blog / Shannon

When one finds out that they are unable to eat a certain food, the mind automatically goes to extremes. “I guess I’ll never eat ice...

We’re still making our way through the 160 pounds of sweet potatoes I purchased last fall. We’re fairly sick of the roasted, buttered option and...

Spring is so close and yet seems so far away, doesn’t it? We’re getting ready to direct-sow some crops and start others in our south-facing...

Besides soup and plain meats and vegetables, what exactly does one eat on a restricted diet? I’ve been exploring this with our son as we...

It’s the end of February, we’re just about to start our seedlings. Other than ferment jars, roots, and some pretty tough cilantro that keeps surviving...

Our son is going through a fairly strict elimination diet regimen right now. Poor guy is a growing eight year-old with some long-standing tummy issues...

A few months ago I was at our local, small town grocery store. I was just wandering through the produce aisle when the sweet potatoes...

I love the idea of a Mexican haystack. Essentially it is all of your favorite Mexican meal fixings – meat, beans, veggies, rice, toppings –...

Wash on Monday, iron on Tuesday, mend on Wednesday… you remember how it goes in Little House on the Prairie, don’t you? And Saturday was...

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned vegetable fermentation as one of the five practices of traditional food preparation. For me, vegetable fermentation has been...

My six-year-old’s favorite meal is chili. It doesn’t matter how I make it – different every time – or what I put into it –...

I remember cooking omelets in teflon pans in high school and thinking how easily they came out of the pan despite the lack of fat...

I’m not sure how this happened but everywhere I turn there are remnants of a humanely butchered animal. Now, before this comes off as morbid...

Thinking about grocery budgets makes me want to crawl under a rock and hide from the three real food meals per day that I feed...

I’ve been on an oat flour kick recently and I thought the nutty, dense flour would lend itself well to a shortbread recipe. Shortbread is,...

A smooth breakfast ritual has eluded me for the longest time. It was always a tough transition from sleeping to eating to beyond with this...

One of the foods I will buy when I’m crunched for time is canned beans. I’ve been cooking dried beans for years, but sometimes I...

When we don’t have vegetables coming out of the garden that I can work with, I generally buy quite a bit of produce every week....

We really like chia seeds in our house. They’re versatile and full of good things and pretty tasty to boot. Actually, chia seeds don’t taste...

There are a lot of takes on what exactly the pilgrims ate at the first Thanksgiving. I wouldn’t even hazard a guess, except to say...

Am I the only one who cannot seem to pull it together for breakfast? Sometimes I think I am when I hear about the exciting...

I think it’s easy to get so bogged-down with the zealotry of idealism that we are too overwhelmed to just do what needs doing. I’ve...

When looking for something both new and versatile to add to our meal repertoire, I came upon the concept of sopes. These little cups are...

Besides broccoli, I know of no vegetable that brings on fear and loathing like the Brussels sprout. They’re so cute, the children say, like tiny...