Welcome to my Recipes page!
**At the BOTTOM of this page, these recipes are CATEGORIZED BY VEGETABLE OR FRUIT (helpful for using up garden bounty) **
For a little background…I strive to cook with fresh, organic fruits & vegetables, soaked whole grains & legumes, cultured & fermented foods, grass-fed meat & dairy, pastured eggs, wild-caught fish, unrefined sweeteners (rapadura/sucanat, honey, maple syrup, molasses), and traditional fats (yes to pastured butter, olive oil, virgin coconut oil, bacon grease — no to refined vegetable oils like canola oil, soybean oil, etc, and definitely no to partially hydrogenated oils like crisco, margarine, and shortening).
I was a vegetarian for 10 years, but now I appreciate that a little bit of humanely raised grass-fed meat is better for my body than fake, highly processed soy “meat.” And although you’ll find meat in some of my recipes, I’m not a huge meat eater anyway, and my recipes tend to be on the lighter side. Also, since I’ve been sick the past ~5 years, meat is rarely on my menu anymore because my stomach finds it hard to digest, but on my strong-stomach days, I do eat a little as tolerated. Same for fish.
Anyway, the recipes listed here are family favorites which we’ve made and enjoyed again and again. I hope you enjoy them too!
Salads & Entrée Salads
Citrus Salad with Macadamia Oil, Cilantro, and Avocado
Soups & Stews
Japanese Squash and Mushroom Soup
Vegetable Side Dishes
Dips, Spreads, Dressings, Sauces, Broths
Cranberry-Mandarin-Ginger Relish
Salsa Fresca (Fresh Salsa with Avocado)
Main Dishes
Macaroni & Cheese, the easiest ever!
Snacks
Apple Peanut Butter “Sandwiches”
Fruit Sauces, Jams, Leathers
Concord Grape Freezer Jam (sugar & pectin free)
Yeast Breads & Crackers
Cookies
(Healthier) Pecan Snowball Christmas Cookies
Quick Breads, Cakes, Muffins
Zucchini Cake with Spiced Frosting
Other Desserts & Candies
Chocolate-Dipped Candied Orange Peel
Smoothies & Raw Juicing
Green Smoothie: Pineapple-Banana-Spinach-Chia
Green smoothie frozen concentrate cubes
Non-Fermented Beverages
Traditional Hot Mulled Apple Cider
Tea blend – Dawn Chorus (herbal)
Tea blend – Russian Caravan (black tea)
Fermented Beverages
Pickled, Cultured, Fermented
Homemade Bubbies Bread & Butter Pickles
For Pets
Health + Beauty
Kitchen Tips & Techniques
Make Your Own Brown Rice Chips or Crackers
Fill-able tea bags from coffee filters
RECIPES FROM ABOVE, CATEGORIZED BY VEGETABLE OR FRUIT:
Apples
Apple Peanut Butter “Sandwiches”
Traditional Hot Mulled Apple Cider
Basil
Beets
Borage leaves
Cabbage
Carrots
Cilantro
Citrus Salad with Macadamia Oil, Cilantro, and Avocado
Salsa Fresca (Fresh Salsa with Avocado)
Cucumbers
Homemade Bubbies Pickles (raw, lacto-fermented pickles)
Homemade Bubbies Bread & Butter Pickles
Grapes
Concord Grape Freezer Jam (sugar & pectin free)
Grape Leaves
Kale
Parsley
Pumpkin
(see Winter Squash, below)
Spinach
Green Smoothie: Pineapple-Banana-Spinach-Chia
Green smoothie frozen concentrate cubes
Tomatoes
Salsa Fresca (Fresh Salsa with Avocado)
Winter Squash/Pumpkin
Japanese Squash and Mushroom Soup
