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.
I Love You to the Ocean
Lately Little Chef has started saying “I love you to the ocean” and we are not sure where he picked it up. Maybe he created it from his book about the little nutbrown hare who says he loves his mommy to the moon, or from the skinnamarinky song. Who knows. Either way its so dang cute we melt to puddles every time he says it. We decided he needed to actually see the ocean to understand what he was saying.
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.
Defeat and Redemption.
It’s been a while since I have posted. I would like to blame it on the fact that I have a “new” baby, who has now decided she can army crawl all over the house, or because I have been working a lot, or even because life is crazy and we had a full […]
Father’s Day
When I was a kid father’s day was always filled with weird homemade cards and gifts and big breakfasts and sitting on dad’s lap laughing and goofing off. I never imagined then how much the holiday would grow into something so much more than that for me. Because now on father’s day I think of […]
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 […]
How to keep your kids engaged this summer
We all know the classic scene from older movies, children running through the trees on an epic adventure they have created in their minds. Backpacks on, lunch pails clinking, a bag tied to a stick, off to spend the day with nature and imagination. The scene pans back and there is the calm […]