Category: Good Food

Cacao Coconut Muffins

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Cacao Coconut Muffins . . . our family’s new favorite now that we’re back to having an oven! When a wintry chocolate craving hits but I still want to stay the course with good food, I love making these cacao coconut muffins. Most ingredients I can get at Costco, although the maple syrup we bought last autumn from Allan Miller, a farmer who bottles his own. Hope you enjoy, too! Cacao Coconut Muffins… Ingredients 1 1/2 cup almond flour 3/4 cup coconut flour 1 1/2 Tablespoons raw cacao powder 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut, chopped or… Read moreCacao Coconut Muffins

Springtime Salmon Rhubarb Salad

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The rains have showered the farm generously this spring, and the rhubarb seems to grow inches every day. Scratching my head and still new to the versatility of vegetables, I asked my friend Aubrey what else I could do with rhubarb besides making my old standby for pancakes and biscuits, strawberry rhubarb sauce. Hazelnut picking rhubarb She answered, pretty much anything! “I use rhubarb anywhere I would use celery – chicken salad, stews, casseroles. It makes a creamy texture. The trick I have found is to slice it thin to avoid stringy bites for little mouths :)” What a wonderful surprise! I… Read moreSpringtime Salmon Rhubarb Salad

Adventurous Ways to Save Money on Food

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For many of us, groceries are the single biggest monthly expense besides the roofs over our heads. But not to fear, there’s a plethora of creative ways to eat well and save money. From universities to dumpsters and kombucha brewing to elk hunting, read on, my food savvy friends! Become a Hunter Gatherer Become a Hunter Gatherer Gleaning. Urban fruit and vegetable gleaning is a wonderful way to procure high quality produce for free, often benefitting the owners of the tree or property as well. Fishing. Ask a knowledgeable friend who fishes about the opportunities in your area and how one would… Read moreAdventurous Ways to Save Money on Food

Beans and Rice and Everything Nice to the Food Budget

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Beans and rice and everything nice to the food budget At the tail end of a summer on the road, visiting far-flung family and camping in dozens of state and national parks, we arrived back to Arizona broke and about to start school. It was an intense, sobering time, a slap in the face to our invincible, youthful carelessness. And it was the summer of 2008, the last golden months before the economic downturn that has fashioned this past decade and rendered many of us into lean, hungry wolves constantly on the move. We got mad, but then we got… Read moreBeans and Rice and Everything Nice to the Food Budget