Tag: nutrients

Mexican Cauliflower Rice (Whole30 or Vegan)

Mexican Cauliflower Rice (Whole30 or Vegan)

Are you Paleo? Killing your Whole30 challenge? Just a regular guy / gal trying to up your veggie intake or go full-on sneaky parent tricking your kiddos into eating their veggies? This’ll work for all those scenarios.

Cast Iron Skillet 101: Your Complete Guide

Cast Iron Skillet 101: Your Complete Guide

We are cast iron skillet people. I mean exclusive cast iron skillet people. We have 4 sizes: super huge, normal but still pretty large, kinda small, and real super small. We haven’t owned a “normal” skillet in probably close to 5 years. True life: we 

Whole30 Eggs Benedict

Whole30 Eggs Benedict

Eggs benedict. The type of rich, decadent, delicious breakfast you don’t expect to be able to eat on Whole30. I don’t mean to brag, but figuring out ways to eat delicious things even on restrictive diets is kind of my specialty. Actually…I don’t know if 

Does My Toddler Need Milk? | The Milk Series | Part II

Does My Toddler Need Milk? | The Milk Series | Part II

You grew a human on the inside. PreggoLife. Likely with the irreplaceable supplementation of every condiment with a side of southern fried pickles. Straight vinegar to the mouth. The dankiest sauerkraut. The ideal elevator snack – canned sardines (saywhat). Fatty / butter-soaked / melty cheese 

Southwestern Sausage and Potato Skillet Recipe

Southwestern Sausage and Potato Skillet Recipe

This skillet is the best kind of meal. It’s humble and unassuming. You can chop the ingredients any way you want. The flavors party in your mouth. The salty and spicy balance each other perfectly. The runny egg yolks provide a built-in sauce. It comes 

Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Spaghetti Squash Recipe

Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Spaghetti Squash Recipe

Did your mom ever give you spaghetti squash as a kid and pass it off as actual spaghetti? Maybe not. Well mine did and I loved it then (usually with butter and brown sugar cause mama ain’t above a bribe) and I love it now. 

Sweet Potato Crusted Quiche with Sausage & Peppers Recipe

Sweet Potato Crusted Quiche with Sausage & Peppers Recipe

This might be the prettiest crust I’ve ever made. It kind of looks like dainty little flower petals, and I’m not going to lie to you, I’m dang proud of it.

How to Chiffonade

How to Chiffonade

It’s a relaxing work-night (you convince yourself), and you’re practicing your adulting by home-cheffing a dish that includes a little green green. You’re thinking local kale or sage from the garden out back, right? Thought so. You hipster. But it seems you have reached an 

Whole30 Jalapeño Poppers Recipe (Dairy-Free)

Whole30 Jalapeño Poppers Recipe (Dairy-Free)

Memorial Day is coming up and you know what that means: 3 day weekend, lake time, pool hangs, bonfires and of course a big grill out with your loved ones. I LOVE memorial day weekend. Partly because it’s the first official three-day weekend of spring/summer 

Mexican Street Corn Recipe (Vegan)

Mexican Street Corn Recipe (Vegan)

Do y’all love corn as much as I do? Corn right off the cob transports me to summer, every time. You know my favorite way to eat corn? Mexican street corn style – sweet corn on the cob covered in creamy saucy goodness with the 

Making Your First Raised-Bed: Garden Tour

Making Your First Raised-Bed: Garden Tour

Round 2: Let’s Get Down to the Nitty Gritty (In 1950s male announcer voice, spoken far too quickly for modern American intelligibility) Previously on The Journey of the Thumb… Austin commits involuntary plantslaughter. Wildlife witnesses prosecute. SeedEaters (aka birds & squirrels & bugs, oh sigh) 

How to Make Your First Outdoor Raised-Bed Garden

How to Make Your First Outdoor Raised-Bed Garden

The Journey of the Thumb Ever been accused of having a “black thumb“? Likely it was unintelligibly uttered under granny’s breath to your progenitress (your mom) at the last backyard family luncheon you hosted. Allow me to elaborate. It’s when you wholeheartedly attempt grow photosynthetic