Traditional Cooking School by GNOWFGLINS

Dish up the simple joy of healthy, down-home foods your family will LOVE… tonight.

Join 12,000+ families served since 2010!

Blog

When it finally occurred to me that no ‘poo might not be the best option for me, I honestly didn't know what to do. I had been living the no 'poo "lifestyle" for so long that I thought the imaginary No 'Poo Police were going to arrest me or something. Here's why no 'poo didn't work for me... and what's working for me now. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Why No ‘Poo Didn’t Work For Me

5 Surprising Ways To Use Your Crock Pot | Crock pots are easy to use, hands-off, and oh-so-portable. We're going beyond regular uses -- here are 5 surprising ways to use a crock pot. Which have you tried? What would you add? | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/104

5 Surprising Ways To Use Your Crock Pot (KYF104)

Cajun food focuses on local ingredients found in the bayous and river delta, and (unsurprisingly) their menus feature fish and seafood quite often. Like catfish, which ranks high on the list of comfort foods for many a Southerner who grew up catching them, rolling them in cornmeal, and frying them. I use eleven different seasonings in my custom spicy blend! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Cajun Catfish + Homemade Cajun Seasoning

With St. Patrick's Day just around the corner, it's fun to see how new recipes can be "green-ified". Like my standard homemade Oreos. I turned the filling (natural) green, which made me think of grasshopper mint ice cream, so I added a bit of peppermint to the mix as well! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Homemade Peppermint Oreos {made with sprouted flour}

As I look back on those first few weeks and months of being a new mom, there are so many thing I'd wish I'd known. My best friend is getting ready to have her first child and as I thought of all the things to tell her, this blog post was born. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

7 Things I Wish I Had Known as a New Mom

Your garden may yet be under a blanket of heavy snow, or the weather freezing cold, but you can do these 7 simple steps right now to be prepared (and maybe a little ahead) when things finally warm up. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Gear Up for Gardening with 7 Simple Steps this Spring

My husband named this "The Best Chocolate Cake Ever". He actually told me to throw out all of my other cake recipes, including those decadent sugar-laden treats I made before we started changing our diet. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

The Best Grain-Free Chocolate Cake Ever {+8 things to make with almond pulp}

As much as I love sourcing and cooking real foods, I don't want to (and can't) spend my every waking moment in the kitchen. So I rely on some store-bought *healthy* convenience foods to make my life just a little bit easier and more fun. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Our Favorite Healthy Convenience Foods

How To Make An Alcohol-Free Herbal Extract {Herbal Glycerite}| Want to use herbal extracts... but not if they're made with alcohol? Here's how to make a faster, better-tasting, non-alcoholic glycerite instead! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Make An Alcohol-Free Herbal Extract {Herbal Glycerite}

This month marks three years since we purchased our land and built a simple farmhouse. I want to share what we learned, what we love about our home, and what we wish we had done differently. Imagine yourself dropping by for a visit and a cup of tea. Don't mind the dogs -- they are friendly -- and please overlook the mess. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Building the Home on our Homestead: Our Experience

Though we now live off-grid, I once lived near a large city where many farmers and food artisans came to town weekly to distribute their traditional foods at a co-op. It was here that we purchased our weekly raw milk share, grass-fed meats, beef liver and heart, and eventually a rye bread that would change my bread-baking and eating habits forever. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Why I’m Hooked on Rye

If you can sew a straight line, you can make your own unbleached cotton milk bag in about twenty minutes for only a few dollars. A nut milk bag allows you to make delicious nut and seed milks quickly, efficiently, and with less mess. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Make Your Own Nut Milk Bag

Finding Friends & Freedom In A Restricted Diet | I'm sharing from my heart about my real food journey and how I somehow found both freedom and friends in places I least expected. I pray you will find encouragement and hope if you find yourself feeling alone, unsupported, or deprived. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Finding Friends & Freedom in a Restricted Diet

What if our children could develop true, valuable, marketable talent even before they leave our homes -- so when they are on their own, they are already passionate and successful experts in their fields? Jonathan Harris is committed to helping his children do just that. Also in today's episode... the tip of the week! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/102

How to Find and Develop Your Child’s Talent (KYF102)

My interest in chickens has grown ever since we started our flock two years ago with eight Rhode Island Red pullets. I recently told my husband that I would love to start raising them with an interest in preserving them. He responded with the gift of an incubator so I could hatch my own. Here are a few things we learned when choosing our incubator, and a few things you might want to consider. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How to Choose an Incubator

Simple Herbal Muscle Rub | If you're in pain, you want to sooth the ache, right? Do you reach for the tube of muscle rub full of questionable ingredients? Of course not! Here's a simple herbal muscle rub that heals the body with God-given ingredients. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Simple Herbal Muscle Rub

Exploring Water Filtration Options | If tap water is likely full of dangerous, cancer- and birth defect-causing chemicals and bottled water is nothing more than tap water with a fancy label, what other options do we have? I'm glad you asked! Home water filtration is tricky business, and no one wants to waste their money on expensive filtration systems that don't actually work or that may be harmful. Here are your options, from worst to best. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Exploring Water Filtration Options {which water filter is best?}

Essential Oil Diffusion Methods | Fresh lemons and spicy ginger... Those are the scents drifting over my writing area right now. I love my essential oils, and I love my cool mist diffuser humming along beside me. I've learned and discovered so much about essential oils and diffusion over the last few years -- and am eager to share! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Essential Oil Diffusion Methods