Some of the best and most delicious busy week-night comfort food you can put together for your family may not be the fanciest or prettiest, but it certainly delivers satisfaction. These recipes often also leave you with baking pans that have a crust of baked-on food that can leave the cook with a, let’s try...

OCCUPY THE ECONOMY : Andrew Faust – Permaculture – OWS from TerraVisus on Vimeo. Andrew Faust Permaculture Designer: HomeBiome.com Costa Boutsikaris Filmmaker:...

Happy Holidays everyone! Things have been simply crazy this year – some good some not good – such is life. Am hoping to post some newer stuff – as always delicious – soon. I recently had to get a new phone – my blackberry dated back to the Jurassic era and was just not working...

Food can be non-intuitive if you eat mindlessly. When you fall into a rut with your daily cooking or if you never venture out of box or frozen food from the store or are always eating out in restaurants sort of like they are your dorm cafeteria, you miss an opportunity to hear what food...

I have been exploring an alternative to syrup which is a bit easier and brings a different flavor profile to pancakes and waffles. Instead of a juicy topping, I used this new product from the butter people Land o Lakes – its a whipped butter with cinnamon already in it. To learn more and also...

Recently, BlogHer and Häagen-Dazs® asked me and a few other bloggers to create original recipes (not just desserts) using their ice cream as an ingredient. How can one possibly say no to that? I said yes and then, to the delight of my children, I went out and bought quite a few containers of Häagen-Dazs....

As you likely know, we try to grow and enjoy wholesome food at home, making us frugal foodies. We raise and milk our own dairy goats. We raise our own laying chickens for eggs. We are getting a family Jersey cow this fall. We will have cow and goat milk next spring. I blog about...

(one of our neighbors down the street) We had a VERY close call here at Nika’s Culinaria. (NASA satellite image of the track of this tornado through our area) We were missed being hit by the Massachusetts EF-4 1/2 mile wide tornado by only a 1/2 a mile – living near a climate induced disaster...

To learn more about the delicious sweet roll you see above, this giveaway and how to enter the 45th Pillsbury Bake-off coming up, please click through to the giveaway...

On Monday, January 31, 2011, the feds made these recommendations PDF (per New York Times which paraphrases as follows): As the nation’s obesity crisis continues unabated, federal regulators on Monday issued their bluntest nutrition advice to date: drink water instead of sugary drinks like soda, fill your plate with fruits and vegetables and cut down...