Have you ever had the experience of planting a garden full of greens and then end up scratching your head? What in the world will you do with all of these greens? There have been seasons where the hens consumed more of the greens than my family did. I know that’s not unusual and it’s…
I tried this canned salmon for the first time in 2005 and I have gushed about it in our tome about why we love canned salmon. Back in 2005, I was loading up on high omega-3 foods hoping to improve my brain health and to prepare my body for another baby. The day that the…
Coconut oil is an ever-increasingly popular ingredient in skin care and moisturizing soap products both because of its ability to moisturize and sink into the skin quickly. Coconut oil is a fairly dry oil which means that it is absorbed into the skin without leaving an oily residue. In our household we have long used…
The coconut oil industry is booming as consumers are looking for alternatives to vegetable oils and shortening in baking and sauteing and discovering the benefits of coconut oil for the skin. With a booming market, many companies are trying to separate their own product from the pack with claims about how their oil is processed….
Probiotic chocolate combines two heavenly foods: high-quality chocolate and gut-restoring probiotics. It is hard to imagine a combination more appealing than “probiotic chocolate.” I have been primed to taste its goodness since learning about it some months back. It strikes me as a good product to introduce friends to the world of probiotics or perhaps…
As fall settles in I share a review of one of my favorite fall kitchen gadgets: The Apple Peeler Corer Slicer by Progressive International. We love this gadget. It saves us a tremendous amount of kitchen time each fall and allows us to enjoy the apples that we freeze and dry all year long. Apple…
The Traditional Foods site comes to you from the Sequoia National Forest in a house designed by Irving Gill. We are a mother-daughter team strong in both the science and the art of cooking. We chronicle our cooking here and our adventures in the forest at Gill on the Hill. Read more about our background and food philosophy.
