We have to take a minute to talk about Abba Gabba Granola! Are you Keto or low carb? Are you avoiding chemically laden artificial sweeteners? Then you need to read on! I was given a bag of this delicious brand’s Crunchy Brownie granola for my birthday and I was so impressed! I had to…
Author: GreenDoorFarm
The life and times of a skeptic professional-by-day and frugal, organic hippie-by-night turning her backwoods acreage into a permaculture hobby farm armed with good books and a few conspiracy theories...
Tippy Does: Book Reviews – “The 12 Week Year” by Moran and Lennington
I have a confession. I like New Year’s Eve better than I like Christmas. Starting over. Clean slate. Fresh beginnings. Resolutions for the road ahead. In my opinion, this was the best satirical meme on social media over NYE because it highlighted our love-hate relationship with resolutions. How often have you been burned by…
Tippy Does: Recipes – Hot and Sour Soup
The Iron Range is gearing up for Christmas. With an early cold snap setting in, I jumped at the chance to warm up at local eatery Whistling Bird for their annual “Crustaceans and Libations” seafood boil. Our Scandinavian country fare may offer lutefisk, but it rarely brings you crawfish, shrimp, or clams. Whistling Bird’s blend…
Tippy Does:#Worth The Money – Top 5 Pampered Chef Items
There’s a difference between cheap and frugal. Cheap people don’t want to spend money on anything. Frugal people don’t want to spend money unnecessarily. Enter quality items that might cost more but are worth it because of their durability, ease of use, innovative design, etc. If you are already familiar with Pampered Chef, you know…
Tippy Does: Recipes – Bacon Caprese Salad
Caprese Napoleon. The fresh basil. The juicy tomato. The good quality olive oil… Oddly, fresh cheeses like mozzarella are a cornerstone of caprese or tomato Napoleon dishes, but my first experience with this culinary concept was as a raw vegan following Susan Power’s dairy free recipe in “Rawmazing”. Under her direction, I substituted the fresh…
Tippy Does: Foraging – Of Lobsters & Dialysis
“I’m too old to give you a kidney.” This is my mother’s response to the news that I am now foraging wild mushrooms out of the Northern MN backwoods. Truth be told, I myself was trepidatious on those first few hunts. Armed with multiple books and a lot of Googled pictures, I’d find what I…
Tippes Does: Recipes – Bulletproof Chaga Chai
I am tired of coffee and darkness. With barely eight hours of sunlight a day, we await the winter solstice while driving to and from work in seemingly endless cold, dark nights. It’s time to break out the chaga. Or as my Norwegian ancestors liked to call it… kreftkjuke A parasitic polypore mushroom that likes to…
Introductions
Somewhere between knowing people were paying for kombucha classes at the health food store and reading a badly written article on cost-effective organic grocery purchases, it occurred to me that I actually had knowledge worth sharing. Somewhere between losing Facebook friends over my incessant posting about food & agricultural issues and intimidating house guests with…
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