In the Kitchen/Recipes

Cast Iron Skillet Cooking Attempts

  When Dale finally decided to share his cast iron cookware with me that he uses for campfire and Dutch Oven cooking, I knew immediately that my first dish was going to be fried...

Altering Recipes at Our Little House

 A Sunday afternoon in the city would most likely find us at our favorite Mexican restaurant in the city, but a Sunday afternoon at Our Little House is much more fun. Dale gets...

Read Labels: You’re Likely to be Surprised

Did you know that many of the frozen vegetables found in U.S. grocery store freezers are not from the United States? I read this article last week about Chinese vegetables making their way into...

In the Kitchen at Our Little House

We’ve given up on trying to eat out here and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I’ve written before about how we miss different types of ethnic food, but even the restaurants we have...

New Green Cookware at Our Little House

I was interviewed yesterday for a story on how to live large in a little house and one of the questions the writer asked was about how living in a little house makes us...

The Microbes are After us

When we moved to Our Little House 3 years ago, I almost tossed the microwave. While I didn’t know of any specific dangers from cooking with radiation, I’ve somehow always inherently known that it...

Summer’s Bounty

As summer winds down, some of our Living Large in Our Little House community might find themselves with more summer harvest bounty than good recipes. Unfortunately, that is not the case here this year....