Category: DIY Allergy-Friendly Ingredients

  • Thai Style Green Curry Paste

    Thai Style Green Curry Paste

    This past summer, I ended up harvesting a lot of chilies. When I say a lot, I estimate that I harvested about 50 pounds of chilies based on what I canned, fermented, dehydrated whole, dehydrated and ground into powders, froze, and so on. I grew 20 different kinds of peppers. I grew half in the…

  • Ox Tail Noodle Soup

    Ox Tail Noodle Soup

    It’s Elements Month! Yeah, you read right. Elements. Earth, Fire, Air, and Water. Four Mondays in November, four elements to be inspired by. Why not? This year, we made a plan via Skype — monthly themes to inspire us. We used to get together more often to plan our editorial calendar, but now we do…

  • Hot Chocolate Mix, Vegan and Gluten-Free

    Hot Chocolate Mix, Vegan and Gluten-Free

    Guess what? This month we’re doing comfort foods as our theme.  And I had all these big plans about what I was going to make.  But harvest season in New Hampshire has been driving me insane, since just had our first frost and now I am trying to get things (apples, kale, etc.) processed before…

  • Cashew Butter and Chocolate Cashew Butter

    Cashew Butter and Chocolate Cashew Butter

    So this is the last recipe post of breakfast month.  One of the things I miss having for breakfast is a toasted bagel or a toasted slice of bread with some thinly spread butter and some thickly spread peanut butter on top of that. The peanut butter gets all warm and gooey and it’s a…

  • Whoopie Pies – Gluten-Free with Vegan Option

    Whoopie Pies – Gluten-Free with Vegan Option

    To cap off our Treat. Yo. Self. January. theme, I give you a big treat, Whoopie Pies. I’m fairly certain I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m originally from Maine. The whoopie pie is the official state treat of Maine and apparently the town of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, has hosted the Maine Whoopie Pie Festival since 2009, according…

  • Cure Your Own Whole Ham

    Cure Your Own Whole Ham

    Okay, so remember when I made a bunch of ham on the outside, but roast pork on the inside, roasts in an attempt to make ham? And I gave up and made Cure Your Own Ham Steaks? I found this post on Pelletsmoking.com that has a Ham Brining 101 post that finally helped me wet cure…

  • Homemade Pasta, Gluten-Free, Vegan & Gum-Free

    Homemade Pasta, Gluten-Free, Vegan & Gum-Free

    Homemade Pasta, Gluten-Free, Vegan & Gum-Free This was not an easy one, dear readers. It took nine (NINE!) attempts to get one I thought was blog worthy, and that could be done hand rolling or hand shaping the dough for those of you that aren’t crazy enough to buy every little kitchen gadget available.  We…

  • Cure Your Own Pastrami

    Cure Your Own Pastrami

    Pastrami is one of those things I have dearly missed. And it was hard to think about trying to do it without curing salt. All commercial curing salt is dyed pink for safety and contains dextrose which is generally derived from corn. But mixing up my own curing salt was scary, because let’s face it,…