Recipes

Recipes, Traditional Diets

Late Summer Harvest

It’s August, and too hot in central Texas to grow much of anything in the vegetable garden. Most vegetables have burned up, dried up or given up. Except black-eyed peas! I planted black-eyed peas after the tomatoes and zucchinis were done for the season. Actually, my peas are called Mississippi Pink Eye Peas. And they […]

Recipes, Traditional Diets

I Made Cottage Cheese!

I believe there is some value in making your own healthy food, whether that means growing your own vegetables in the garden or raising your own chickens for eggs or baking a pie from scratch.   These were skills our ancestors had and that we have often forgotten.  So, when I saw the recipe for cottage […]

Recipes

Custard recipe

I love eating a lot of fat! That is how I stay slim. (A topic for another blog). High quality saturated animal fat is not dangerous but actually good for the human body. Fat from animals on pasture (grazing on the food mother-nature intended) provides the fat-soluble vitamins that we need.