This soup is one of our go-tos all fall and winter long. It is fast, easy, and requires zero measuring (although I did try to add measurements while writing this recipe!). We don’t always add the roasted chickpeas, but it is a fabulous addition when we have five extra minutes to make them. This is…
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The Best Slow Cooker Vegetarian Chili
Most of the recipes I ate growing up have been replaced with other things (thank you morning sickness round one), but my mom’s chili recipe just can’t be beat. When we stopped eating meat a few years ago I swapped out the ground beef for lentils and added some vegetables. Our favorite way to eat this is…
The One Green Smoothie our Entire Family LOVES
We’ve been green smoothie drinkers for a few years. I would say I’ve enjoyed 80-90% of our smoothie combinations. Andrew would be closer to 50%. The kids drink whatever we give them a lot of the time (at least a little bit), but not all the time. I figure a mostly good smoothie isn’t worth…
Food Staples: Mini Muffins
For years I have loved having muffins on hand as a snack. When I was in college my mom experimented with freezing muffin batter in silicon muffin pans. She would store the frozen batter discs in a ziploc bag in the freezer, ready to pop into the oven at a moments notice for fresh muffins….
Food Staples: Bulgar Lentil Meat Replacement or Extender
About two years ago as we took our first baby steps into the whole food plant based world, I came across the idea to use a mixture of lentils and bulgar wheat to replace ground meat. We had never eaten a lentil or heard of bulgar. Two years later and we now use this bulgar…
Food Staples: Sourdough Salad Pizza
I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of a weekly pizza night, but it isn’t something that our family has been able to pull off. Homemade pizza feels like a huge undertaking and our budget doesn’t quite have room for Friday night take-out. Then I came across this sourdough salad pizza recipe and our life is…
A Day of Applesauce
For weeks we’ve been planning in our little neighborhood community to spend Thursday, October 6 making applesauce. At 7:30 in the morning we got a text that the family that was planning on hosting the event was sick. Fortunately I had followed a prompting to deep clean our kitchen the day before and by 8:15am…
Food Staples: Economical Frozen Fruit
As I’ve mentioned many times, we’ve been thinking a lot about food in the Jackson household this year. The hardest part for me isn’t finding new recipes or buying new ingredients (although that is intimidating at first too) but rather figuring out new systems and habits to sustain the new recipes. We’ve come along way…
Making Whole Wheat Spinach Pasta
This weekend we made pasta making a family affair. A few weeks ago Andrew made a batch for dinner. It was our first experience with homemade pasta and we are all convinced there is no going back to the store bought option (except, of course if we don’t have time to make anything else). We…
Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread Perfection: Recipe Update
Today I made three perfect loaves of sourdough bread. They were not too wet and not too dry. They easily shaped into loaves. They rose a little extra in the oven. They were crunchy on the outside and soft in the inside and tasted perfect. I have finally gotten the hang of making great loaves…