It’s surprisingly easy to make sauerkraut. Plus, it’s super cheap. All you need is a green cabbage, some salt, and sometimes water. Well, and a bit of patience. Slice the cabbage. Add the salt, then “knead” until the cabbage has gotten soft. Put into cleaned mason jars, leaving space at the top. Pack down. Cover…
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Rich and Delicious Vegetable Stock
Vegetable stock is really easy to make. Just put all your vegetable scraps into a pot, and boil. Not only does it save money and add nutrition (remember, all the good stuff is in the skins!) to your meals when you use homemade vegetable stock instead of water, but it reduces your food waste too….
Marvelous Coconut Millet Porridge (Breakfast or Teatime Sweet!)
Chances are, you imagine millet as a plain and uninteresting addition to dinner. But amazingly, if you make it right, it can be a delicious breakfast cereal, sweet snack, or even a simple dessert! It also keeps well, tasting just as good the next day. Uncooked millet looks like very, very tiny seed beads for…
Baked Pumpkin (Eating the Whole Pumpkin)
To see further recipes using pumpkin, and for how to cut and prepare the vegetable, see our masterpost Eating the Whole Pumpkin. Take your cubed pumpkin, sprinkle with poultry seasoning, scatter with brown sugar. Add a pour of olive oil, a few pats of butter, salt, and pepper. (We had some leftover cauliflower, so we…
Pumpkin Soup (Eating the Whole Pumpkin)
To see further recipes using pumpkin, and for how to cut and prepare the vegetable, see our masterpost Eating the Whole Pumpkin. First brown your onions in a stainless steel pot. Take half of a pumpkin, cut in chunks, and put it on top of your browned onions. Season. Add the water and simmer till…
Pumpkin Seeds (Eating the Whole Pumpkin)
To see further recipes using pumpkin, and for how to cut and prepare the vegetable, see our masterpost Eating the Whole Pumpkin. Separate your seeds from the strings. Put pumpkin seeds in a glass baking dish. Spray with oil. Add salt, pepper cayenne to taste, and sugar. Bake, taking from the oven every now and…
Frizzle Cakes (Eating the Whole Pumpkin)
To see further recipes using pumpkin, and for how to cut and prepare the vegetable, see our masterpost Eating the Whole Pumpkin. Take your frizzles, add the onions, salt and pepper, and the flour. Stir! Put in the fresh parsley. Make thin cakes (the thinner, the better) and fry in a skillet. Serve warm. Frizzle…
Pumpkin Chips (Eating the Whole Pumpkin)
To see further recipes using pumpkin, and for how to cut and prepare the vegetable, see our masterpost Eating the Whole Pumpkin. For a tasty, crunchy snack, try these pumpkin chips, made with the skins of a whole pumpkin. First, cut your pumpkin skins into smaller, chip-sized pieces—you can use kitchen scissors for this. Put…
Eating the Whole Pumpkin
When you first think past the realms of autumn decor and Thanksgiving pies, the pumpkin is a rather unassuming squash. Despite this, pumpkins are perhaps one of the most intriguing ingredients I’ve ever come across. We bought a pumpkin for about $3.00 from a local farm around Halloween, but never bothered to carve it, so…
Fried Frizzles (Eating the Whole Pumpkin)
To see further recipes using pumpkin, and for how to cut and prepare the vegetable, see our masterpost Eating the Whole Pumpkin. For this quick and simple appetizer, all you need is a bowl of frizzles and some garlic. Mince 3 cloves garlic and sizzle in oil in a cast-iron pan, until light brown then…