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.
Homemade Peppy Peppermint Syrup
The weather outside is frightful… frightfully cold anyway….. unless you live in Arizona. 13 degrees outside today… somewhere else…. 70 Degrees here. I find there is no better way to warm up cold fingers than with a nice hot cup of java. The only problem is that I have a really big sweet tooth that the dentist can’t seem to remove. So what do I do? Since we don’t like artificial sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup and any ingredient we can’t pronounce, I like to makes my own coffee sweeteners and flavors. My favorite is the homemade Peppy Peppermint Syrup. Here are some of my favorites: Peppy Peppermint Cozy Caramel…
Healthy Pizza With a Twist
I know – healthy and pizza shouldn’t really be used in the same sentence. It isn’t as bad as saying “healthy donuts” (once i figure that one out, I’m sure I will post the recipe immediately.) This pizza has a few secret ingredients that help to tip the scale towards eating healthy, or at least tricking your kids into eating spinach. You can’t see the spinach in the images? Well, let me explain. Use a bread machine to quickly make the dough This pizza starts off with a homemade whole wheat pizza dough. One of the best gifts my husband ever gave me was my bread machine. He gave…
Vegan Freezer Chocolate Pecan Cookies
A Vegan lifestyle isn’t all about boring foods and living off of salads. We switched to a vegan diet about 4 months ago. My husband has slowly realized over the past few years that he is allergic to eggs and all dairy products. Since our family is a live together – eat together family, if one person has to go on a special diet, we all go on a special diet. My kids support their dad by eating a vegan diet at home for the most part. They are not strict vegans and do eat eggs, cheese, seafood and meat when at school or with friends. However, when you have…
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Paleo Baked Sweet Potatoes
Paleo Baked Sweet Potatoes
A few years ago I decided to try the Paleo way of life. I quit all grains and most sugar 🙂 to see if the results people talk about on the interwebs was really true. I decided to dedicate myself to it for at least 30 days. At the end of my trial I really happy with the results and discovered some great recipes. Paleo Baked Sweet Potatoes became one of our families favorites. My mind seemed clearer, I feel happier on a daily basis and have lost a couple pounds along the way. Not bad if I do say so. In the past I would get the low carb…
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Fermented Dill Pickles
I am writing this today in honor of National Pickle Day!!!!! Who doesn’t love pickles? So many different flavors can be created with a few simple ingredients. These fermented dill pickles are easy to make (less than 10 min), are full of healthy probiotics (who needs pills??) and can be refrigerated for months. This is a great recipe to make when you are overrun with pickling cucumbers in the garden or find a great sale on cucumbers at your local store or famers market. These make a great snack or can be added to your favorite meals. Help your gut and make some fermented pickles today!! Some notes of…
Dairy Free Vegan Pesto
Basil thrives all summer long here in Arizona. Every spring we sow seeds for sweet basil. As you can see by the end of summer we have more than enough of this great herb to last all year. This is 3 of the 6 plants we have growing around our yard. So what to do with all that basil? How about make some dairy free Vegan Pesto!! This large leafed variety, also known as Genovese basil, has many uses in the kitchen as well as your medicine cabinet. For centuries it has been used to treat stomach issues, parasites, head colds, ear infections, bites, stings, and the list goes on.…
