Posted on January 23rd, 2012 by mountain girl | 2 Comments »
The kids have been a little under the weather, so I decided today would be a good day to make a nice hot soup for us all. Or at least, for those of us who love soup–namely, Zia and me. I started by popping a veggie broth cube into some hot water in a little […]
Posted on October 31st, 2011 by mountain girl | 4 Comments »
After trying a few different styles of pizza crust, this has become our favorite. I’ve pulled some ideas from recipes online and added a few of my mother’s tips on making bread dough, which is surprisingly similar to pizza dough. The pizza sauce recipe is also really yummy–I culled it from a Southern Living magazine […]
Posted on August 15th, 2011 by mountain girl | Comments Off on {raw recipe} ginger spice drink
Saturday night after a long, hot day at the river, I wanted something cold and refreshing. We went to Vitamin Cottage, and I thought I’d grab a kombucha tea or some coconut water. Instead, I found a Bragg Ginger Spice drink made from apple cider vinegar. It was on sale for $1.75, about half the […]
Posted on July 25th, 2011 by mountain girl | 1 Comment »
Ladies and gentlemen, the soup of the day! Lettuce. Lettuce? Lettuce. Hmn. But lettuce first get back to where it all started… Our community garden is exploding with life and heavy with ripe veggies. When you walk through it, you feel like you have green-tinted glasses on. Now that we’re back home from NM, I went […]
Posted on July 18th, 2011 by mountain girl | Comments Off on {raw recipe} garden spaghetti
My lunch today was raw spaghetti. No, it wasn’t crunchy hard sticks out of the spaghetti box. It all began back in the garden with these. A couple of dudes straight out of Veggie Tales. I found them hiding under a giant squash leaf, hoping I wouldn’t spot them. But alas for them, I did. Quicker than […]