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All Recipes
Use-It-Up Corn Cob Broth
Vegetable broth made with corn cobs, husks and floss tastes absolutely delicious and contains only the minimal ingredients that you yourself put in the pot.
Okara Brown Sugar Biscotti
Homemade tofu renders an astonishing amount of soybean pulp, or okara. Better make biscotti to avoid food waste. All for the cause!
Homemade Tofu (and Soy Milk)
Homemade tofu requires just three ingredients—soybeans, water and a coagulant—and a bit of planning ahead.
Hazelnut–Cocoa Spread (aka Homemade Nutella)
Once you taste this homemade hazelnut-cocoa spread, you can never go back to store-bought Nutella. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Milking Nut Milks for All Their Worth
Feeling guilty about making almond milk? Use this trick to double the amount you render. Still feel guilty? Pumpkin seed milk will assuage your guilt.
7 Recipes for Lemon Season
When life gives you lemons, use them all up with these recipes, including the peels, and avoid food waste.
Homemade Fresh Pumpkin Pasta
I had trouble coming up with a title for this post. If you google “pumpkin pasta” a pile of recipes will pop up for pumpkin sauces to toss with cooked pasta—and those do look delicious. But in this recipe, the pasta itself contains the pumpkin—and quite a bit of it. A Pumpkin by Any Other […]
Tomato Paste from Scratch
I finally made tomato paste and it tastes amazing. This has been on my to-do, to-cook, to-blog list since I started blogging. Like many things I now make from scratch, I will never be able to eat store-bought tomato paste again because homemade tastes incredible. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. I followed the recipe […]
Coconut Milk Made from Dried Coconut
I make my own coconut milk for several reasons: Store-bought coconut milk is packaged in either wasteful cans lined with plastic or hard-to-recycle and even more wasteful Tetra-Paks that contain plastic Many of these plastics contain BPA or a replacement that is just as harmful Store-bought often contains food-like and suspect ingredients Homemade contains only […]
Refried Beans
Homemade refried beans taste delicious, fill you up, cost little money to make and contain only a handful of ingredients. The taste of canned refried beans pales in comparison and I prefer that my food not come into contact with plastic. The epoxy that lines cans contains either BPA or a just-as-bad-if-not-worse replacement, such as […]