Homemade vegetable broth is so easy to make that one might think that no recipe is needed. And it is true, I have made it with just using what's in my fridge that needs to go and be great for a vegetable broth. However, after trying this recipe I never went back to throwing together whatever is ...
Gardening Where it is Cold (Zone 3)
We are in Alberta, Canada, at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains - plant hardiness zone 3A, elevation 1,037 m (3,402 ft). Yep, it's cold here! While the southerlies plant their garden, we pile up more snow, while they harvest their first crops, we plant ours, and while they still complain about ...
Green Smoothie for Breakfast
To enjoy a green smoothie for breakfast is a great healthy choice. It's delicious, easy and quick to make and fills you up for hours. It's our go-to recipe whenever an instant breakfast is needed, or for a breakfast to go on a busy day and even to take with us on the road. What is a green smoothie ...
Oatmeal Porridge Recipe
This oatmeal porridge recipe is my favorite breakfast recipe at the moment. It is yummy and healthy all at the same time. You get whole grain, high on omega 3 seeds, nuts, fruit, and berries all in one meal. I tend to find a recipe that I like and stick to it for months, sometimes years till I'm ...
Chickpea Flour Pancakes Recipe
Chickpea Flour Pancakes recipe is the fastest, easiest, most filling and most versatile recipe you will come across. It is gluten free, nut free and dairy free. Vegan, whole-food plant-based, protein-rich and kids approved. Other versions and names are Farinata, it is backed in a hot skillet in ...
Making Progress on One Thing a Day
Making progress on one thing a day that matters to you helps you to accomplish more without feeling overwhelmed. It is called the Progress Principle, and it is empowering. We often share on our blog things we accomplish: greenhouses that we build, food that we grow and preserve and recipes that ...
Cookbooks to Start a Plant-Based Diet
We are sometimes being asked if it was hard for us to change to a plant-based diet. Our answer is no and it has two reasons. For one we are both people who do not mind to try something new and for two there are great cookbooks to start a plant-based diet. The list of plant-based cookbooks is ...
Our Plant-Based Pantry
Our plant-based pantry consists of produce that we grow in our garden and plant-based products that we buy in. We talk a lot about the food that we grow and also recently shared our homegrown pantry and food storage here, check it out if you haven't yet. Today it's about our plant-based pantry, ...
How to Build a Geodesic Dome Greenhouse Version 2
We built our second geodesic dome slightly different than our first one several years ago. Here we share the how to build a geodesic dome greenhouse version 2. You can read all about how to build version 1 here. We have been asked many times to share how we built the second dome. So here you ...
Freestyle Cooking
Freestyle cooking is an easy, fast, flexible and realistic way to prepare food. In a day and age of overload of recipes, it can easily get lost. Recipe makers (blessed be their effort), make us believe that it involves hard work and special skills to make a recipe, and unless you follow it to the T, ...