Recipes
Finding great recipes to use up your garden harvests is not always easy. We love to garden and we love to cook. Follow us to be the first to find out about some great ways to use your Arizona desert garden harvests.
How to make Moringa Powder
Moringa is one of our favorite trees to grow here in the desert. They are low maintenance, drought-tolerant, and a great source of vitamins and minerals. The entire tree is edible from its roots to its leaves, flowers, and pods. In this new post we are going to go over how to make your own Moringa Powder.
Microgreen Recipes
We all know how easy it is to add superfoods to our everyday meals. Here are a few microgreen recipes that will have you coming back for more. Chickpea & Pea Shoot Salad Zucchini Avocado Salad Grilled Salmon Burgers
Roasted Tomatillo Salsa Verde
Tomatillo season is here. One of our favorite recipes for using up bumper crops of Tomatillos is Roasted Tomatillo Salsa Verde. This recipe is so easy to make with just a few fresh ingredients. Growing Tomatillos When I first started growing tomatillos, I had a heck of a time getting the seeds to sprout. I have heard this from a few other people over the years. Last summer, I finally had a successful plant. I harvest most of the tomatillos but did not get to all of them picked last year, so they fell to the ground. These tomatillos composted in place and, and this year I had a HUGE…
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Easy Homemade Coleslaw Recipe
8 Delicious ways to use Cantaloupe, Summer Recipe Ideas
Cantaloupe is so easy to grow here in Arizona. If you are a cantaloupe lover and need a few more ways to use them up, here are 8 delicious ways to use cantaloupe this summer. Related Post: How to Grow Cantaloupe Everything you need to know to grow Cantaloupe this season. 8 Delicious ways to use Cantaloupe: Recipes Here are some wonderfully tasty recipe ideas for using up your cantaloupe. Let me know which ones become your favorite Cantaloupe recipe: 1. Watermelon & Cantaloupe Skewers 2. Melon & Mozzarella Salad with Prosciutto 3. Blueberry Cantaloupe Salad 4. Cantaloupe Gazpacho with Blueberry and Basil 5. Heirloom Tomato and Cantaloupe Melon Salad…
Easy Homemade Coleslaw Recipe
Summer is here, at least here in Arizona. Temps have been a cool 100 degrees and rising. This is the time that we love to head up north to cooler parts of the state to get outdoors, hike, camp, and BBQ. One of my family’s all-time favorite side dishes in the summer is my Easy Homemade Coleslaw recipe. The History of Coleslaw Did you know that Coleslaw got its start in the 18th Century? It was a Dutch food originally named “koolsla”, meaning Cabbage Salad. One of the original recipes for this popular summertime dish included cabbage, melted butter, vinegar, and oil. However, on the most popular ingredients for this…
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Garlic Gluten-Free Moringa Noodles with Squash Recipe
These moringa noodles are a new family favorite. Although there are limitless possibilities for a pasta dish and many sauce choices, this one is hands down our new goto meal. Made with fresh from the garden Cube of Butter squash, Moringa Pods, and garlic this garlic gluten-free moringa noodles with squash meal is truly amazing. We make these noodles by hand. They are really quite easy to prepare. Just a few simple, nutritious ingredients are all it takes to create fabulous homemade pasta. If you don’t have moringa trees or powder, you can try substituting tomato powder for red noodles, or leave it out and just make plain gluten-free noodles…
Homemade Gluten Free Moringa Noodles Recipe
When you have to go gluten-free, either by choice or for health reasons, there is a pretty big learning curve ahead of you. Making pasta, bread, muffins, and pancakes never seems to be as easy or the same. I have spent a few years in the kitchen to perfect some gluten-free recipes for my husband. Here is one of our absolute favorites: Gluten Free Moringa Noodle Recipe A Little About Moringa Before I spill my secrets on how to make gluten=free moringa noodles, let me tell you a little about moringa. Moringa, also called the drumstick tree, miracle tree, and many other names. It is rich in micronutrients, calcium, vitamin…
Baked Vegetarian Stuffed Squash Flowers
If you have ever grown any type of squash before, you know they are very prolific producers. But did you know that it is not just the fruit from these that is edible? The beautiful orange flowers are a delicacy in some regions. Follow along and learn how to impress your friends & family with this amazingly easy vegetarian stuffed squash flowers recipe. How to Harvest Squash Flowers: I like to use zucchini, yellow, or pattypan squash flowers. While in the process of producing a huge harvest of squash, these plants also put out lots of large yellow flowers. In order to produce fruit, they put out both a male…
Gluten Free Blueberry Sourdough Pancakes
If you love pancakes as much as I do, this will be your new favorite recipe. These gluten free blueberry sourdough pancakes are so light and fluffy. My husband is gluten free & dairy free so I like to experiment with recipes that he can enjoy. After years of baking with normal flours, the switch to gluten free can be a little challenging. I have made and ruined numerous bread recipes, biscuit recipes and dinner roll recipes by trying various recipes that were posted online and none of them turned out as good as their gluten flour counterparts. However, I feel like I have struck gold with this GF pancake…
Refreshing Summertime Raspberry Mint Mojito Recipe
When summer heats up, there is nothing better than a refreshing summertime raspberry mint mojito. My spin on this popular beverage includes fresh raspberries, garden mint, and lime juice. This refreshing berry mojito can be made with or without alcohol. I like to add a little rum to mine for hot summer evenings when relaxing on the garden patio. Raspberry Mint Mojito’s are a summertime favorite for the kids as well, minus the rum of course. Raspberry Mint Mojito Recipe Video Here is a quick video with instructions on how we make a Virgin version of our Raspberry Mint Mojito’s: The Ingredient List: Fresh Ingredients are best for this recipe,…
