When I was first learning how to cook I asked my mom for my nonna's recipes. She told me that she didn't even use a recipe and she wished she did. So One day I just sat and watched my mom make her sauce. And then I made it better! But it turns out I [...]
Category: Recipes
Backcountry gnocchi and pesto.
Ok, this recipe is a little heavy. If you are car camping that is no big deal. Plus when you are car camping you can bring fresh pesto instead of in a tube. But when I'm wearing a pack it's usually the first meal I eat so my pack is lighter. However when I kayak [...]
backcountry chili Mac
When I go camping in the winter I could have this breakfast lunch and dinner! Plus compared to the other things I make while camping it is very light. The pasta and freeze-dried chili are light in weight so great for backpacking. We took a survey of food and accori=dign to the group mine was [...]
Cannolis
I love holiday traditions. And I love starting my own traditions. Like making lasagna and cannolis on Christmas eve. This year I received some help in the kitchen from my 2 year old niece while I was making the cannolis. She definitely stole the show! How I make my cannolis is first I make pizelles, [...]
Raw Almond Crescents
So although there may be no music playing during my video... imagine me dancing around the kitchen to Dominick the Donkey and I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas as I make these cookies! There recipe below is for one batch. I made 2 batches in the video and a total of 4 batches to [...]
Raw Pecan Pie/ Nut Cup
For my Dad's 70th Birthday I made him a cute little Pecan Pie. Then I also made raw nut cups with the rest of the dough and batter. They came out great! Me: Happy Birthday! I Made you a mini pecan pie. Dad: Do I look like a mini person? Me: You want a whole [...]
Topping on the cake
Or any dessert really! I use these two recipes so often!!! (I have to re-make the video this weekend because it stopped recording at only 2 minutes. But I wanted to post the recipe today. ) There are three things I dislike about thanksgiving, but i want to write about what I enjoy about it [...]