Homemade Bruschetta from Garden Tomatoes and Basil

This is precisely a main reason, a culmination, of why I am doing my Sustainable Kitchen Project. It’s just for amazing experiences like this. Just yesterday, I glanced over towards my garden. I noticed a flash of red. Not green, and not the even more likely brown. Red. It stopped me in my tracks. ...

Homemade Orange Juice – Sustainable Kitchen Project

One of the first things I’ve done as part of my Sustainable Kitchen Project is to pull out, dust off, clean and actually use this very cool, very nice juicer I received as a gift years ago. Yes, years ago. I’ve thought many times how cool it would be to make juice. I have three kids and...

Sustainable Kitchen Project

When I decided to work at home most days, a major MAJOR factor was having more time to make good food for my family. I wanted to use more fresh ingredients, and make more things from scratch. Oh, in my mind, I would be the uber foodie mom, baking and creating and freezing and canning and doing various...