When I wrote about chemicals in our food that are worse than the yoga mat ingredient (azodicarbonamide) in Subway’s bread, a lot of people mentioned how disheartening it was to try to eat well cause organic is just so darn expensive. It is true that there’s a premium on organic foods. What a lot of people don’t…
Sweet Potato Salad + Poppy Seed Dressing
Happy Victoria Day, Canadians! You gotta love em… Somehow many have gotten this holiday that traditionally marks the “safe planting” date for frost-tender plants mixed up with the first day of summer. So if you go about Ontario right now, you see many a person in shorts and fleece jacket, and there’s always someone among…
The Science of Whipped Cream and Butter
Have you ever wondered about how cream turns into butter, or why whipped cream and butter are different? I was thinking about post ideas, when someone said “have you done butter yet?” No, I haven’t done butter. Butter is gradeschool Homesteading 101, and everybody’s got a post on how to make butter. “Yes,” says my friend….
Smooth Hummus from Canned Chickpeas
What do you do when you’ve a potluck request for your super-smooth like store-bought, (Jerusalem-style) hummus, and you somehow hallucinate you have another day to soak the dried chickpeas, forgetting that to make it you would have to be grinding chickpeas in your food processor at 7am? I had a can of chickpeas left over…
Making Stock From a Bird Carcass
Smoky Scalloped Sweet Potatoes
Tomato Bacon Jam (v. 1.0 – Ketchup Replacer)
German Secret Red Cabbage – Guest Author @MagnoliaRipkin
The BLUNTmoms editor in chief, Magnolia, was thrilled to know that I was going on vacation, because I know nothing about German food except for how to use red cabbage to test the pH of things. Apparently it can also be eaten. I remain skeptical but open-minded. She was so excited about this, she originally…
Easy, Fresh Spinach & Spelt Pasta
The Quest for the Best Smooth Hummus
And just so you know up front, I found the Grail. Bear with me – this will be a bit of a long post, but there’s a reason. This isn’t really about the recipe. Hummus recipes are almost depressingly identical, give or take a few chickpeas. This post is longer because I’m covering and comparing the two…