The Gluten Free Vegan

After a couple months of sad looking kale in the grocery stores I hit the jackpot the other day, finding a huge bunch of beautiful rather tender-looking kale for just $0.97. Anyway, kale wasn’t actually in any of my menu plan dishes but I couldn’t pass up buying it and decided tonight was the night [...]

I’m a real fan of spaghetti squash. I even defended my favorite squash on Twitter. It truly is one of my favorite squashes. I bake it up and use it in place of pasta all the time. I have layered it in a baked pasta dish with excellent results. I enjoy it even on it’s [...]

I have bought jarred pasta sauce before. The Italian in me cringes at the thought, and yet the lazy cook that comes out once in a while rejoices. There are some decent ones out there, but alas, it’s true nothing is quite like homemade. And when it comes to marinara sauce, it truly is one [...]

image source Because I have grandiose plans of being an amateur horticulturist or something, I keep thinking I’m going to do more with a vegetable garden ‘next year’. It’s always ‘next year’. So, in true over-ambitious Megs form I’ve decided to harvest some of the seeds out of a bunch of heirloom tomatoes we got [...]

Right around now the happy homemaker part of me that I swear is somewhere deep down in the recesses of my soul wishes I had time to can my own tomatoes. I have such high hopes every year. But this year it is just not meant to be. Too busy, remember? Anyways, we received some [...]

So far as I can tell I am a lousy gardener with not even a smudge of green in my thumbs. I used to have a garden ages ago and Levi ended up taking care of it.  Now that we have a house again I thought I’d give gardening another try.  Except I don’t have [...]