When I started out on my real food journey so many years ago, I would never have imagined I’d write a post about how to make cornstarch. Let alone with chickpeas. Back in the day I lived in blissful ignorance, unaware of the affect of processed ingredients. Cornstarch was the least of my worries.
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I’ve been growing herbs for tea for years. SCROLL DOWN to see the 16 medicinal plants I just ordered (most from Territorial Seed Co.) I was even nationally recognized for the fact that I grow a coffee substitute in my New England garden. Read the article & watch the video of me harvesting my chicory
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When I first started milling my own flour, I stopped using sourdough all together. I’d been making sourdough bread for years and loved it. See my detailed recipe for making sourdough without discard here. But making sourdough bread with fresh milled flour seemed impossible. In fact, to this day I still often suggest that folks
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I really love tea. All kinds of tea. But chai lattes have a special place in my life. So much so that I make them several different ways, depending on what mood I’m in and how much time I have. These 3 different ways to make a homemade chai latte are all so simple and
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When I first started making my own flour almost a decade ago, people called me crazy. Make flour at home? That sounded wild just a few short years ago. Then 2020 hit. Nobody made fun of my flour-making. I was content at home, with my wheat berries, grain mill, and plenty of flour for baked
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While I’ve always been a tea fan, I haven’t always been a coffee fan. So how did I wind up here, writing a protein latte recipe? I drank (and enjoyed) my not-coffee tea for over a year before my daughters convinced me it, truly, tastes EXACTLY like coffee, and therefore I would, in fact, like
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It’s no secret that I love tea. In fact, I love tea so much that even my “coffee” is actually tea. (P.s. my NOT coffee tea was even featured on Fox News!) But liking chai lattes is a new one for me. Once I realized I liked chai, there’s been no going back. I now
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In case you didn’t know, we raise pigs every year on our homestead. And one thing nobody tells you about raising your own pigs is that unless you want to throw away valuable fat (I don’t), or don’t like lard (I do), you’ll be basically drowning in lard. Not that it’s a problem. It’s actually
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Impact vs stone mills. Who knew flour mills could be so different? At this moment, I own four different flour mills. I know, right? Crazy person alert. Each one is different and unique, so let’s talk about how stone mills are different from impact mills, and what that means for you as a home miller.
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I got hooked on coffee shops before I even liked coffee. When I walked into a cute coffee shop in the town I was living in at the time, I texted my coffee shop-obsessed friend (we all have one, right?) begging her for suggestions of what to order since I hated coffee. She told me
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