January is hard. The Christmas cookies are gone, everyone is grumpy from all the kale, the kids are crazy from being locked up inside, and on top of all of that you have to think of something to make for dinner. Not to worry, I have a quick and easy dinner idea and recipe to […]
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Coming Soon…
We here at the Cultivating Foodies family have a very exciting announcement! {No, it’s not another baby…} We are writing a cookbook! It will be family based, with recipes you can cook with your family and the whole crew can enjoy. It will feature easy to execute recipes, bright pictures to follow along with […]
Pumpkin Pie and Family Favorites
Pumpkin pie is one of my favourite desserts, and the recipe from my “The Little House Cookbook” seemed like the perfect way to use the pumpkins we grew in our garden this year.
Funky Fermentation
Lately I have been dabbling in wild fermentation and had some amazing results. The most recent project has been a whole wheat sourdough starter that I have been making bread with. If you are not familiar with the term, a starter is water and flour, that you mix and let sit for many days, and then “feed” it more flour daily to build it up.
The Adventures of the Gouda Caravan
I have many fond memories of camping as a child, and a few appalling ones from the past few years.
Chef’s Garden
We recently planted our very first chef’s garden on our little farm here on the prairie. We have wanted to for a few years now, but finally have a summer that I’m not knocked up so we decided to go for it. James and Little Chef tilled up a nice spot just North […]
Baked Chicken Sourdough
I have just decided that raising small children is a lot like being addicted to a hardcore drug. It has amazing ups, and life threatening downs, and you end up doing things in public you never every thought you would.
4 H
This year I have had the opportunity to help teach the local 4H club foods club. When I first signed up I assumed it would be fairly basic lessons, with a couple kids whose parent’s signed them up. Boy was I wrong. The little crew we had sign up are quite a hilarious mix of […]
Cheese Sticks and a bad attitude
Yesterday Little Chef was a grumpy little thing. I now realize it was because he was coming down with something because he had a case of the pukeys this morning. He had to call his Tante Lexi and tell her all about it because apparently that’s what we do in this family. Monday morning, I […]
Caramels
Every Christmas {yes it’s well in to the new year and everyone’s diets and I’m still talking Christmas.} my family picks names and makes a gift for the name we pick. It’s creative, means a heck of a lot less spending, and there is something so beautiful and special about a hand made gift. We […]