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Here's a delicious sourdough einkorn focaccia -- a flat bread that goes great with pasta, soups, sausage dishes, and will even work as a pizza crust. Einkorn is an ancient variety of wheat that many may find easier to eat and digest. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Sourdough Einkorn Rosemary Focaccia

Once upon a time, "seasonal eating" applied to everything -- not just spring onions, summer berries, or fall pumpkins. Meats were seasonal, too. Pork was most plentiful in winter when the cold temperatures insured proper hog butchering conditions. Here's a winter pork roast, where you can make use of whatever winter vegetables you've got on hand. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Pork Roast with Winter Vegetables

Gut-Friendly Linzer Cookies {Sweets For Your Sweetie} | If you're looking for something sweet and pretty, but much healthier than the standard decorated sugar cookies or box of chocolates, consider this nourishing take on Linzer cookies! They're made with sprouted flour and all-natural raspberry jam so they're easier to digest! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Gut-Friendly Linzer Cookies {Sweets For Your Sweetie}

I would argue that Valentine's Day exists for the food. Beyond the shiny gifts, the whole idea of the day is to connect intimately with one you love. And here is a collection of real food recipes to help set the tone for celebration and romance! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Real Food Recipes for Romance

Chocolate Raspberry Tea Cake | Treat yourself or surprise your honey (or little honey drops) with this delicious and nourishing Sourdough Chocolate Raspberry Teacake. Sourdough, chocolate, AND raspberry? All in one dessert? Delicious! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Chocolate Raspberry Tea Cake

Instead of sharing conversational hearts, my little ones and loving husband will indulge in one of my favorite childhood treats -- pecan tarts. It's a recipe from my mom, only remade with less processed and more wholesome ingredients, of course. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Mama’s Pecan Tarts

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?}

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

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

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}

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}

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}

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

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)

Many of us just can’t get the sleep we need. Whether you suffer from occasional sleeplessness or chronic insomnia, these herbs may help. Plus, I'll share 3 easy tea blends you could be drinking tonight before bed! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

10 Herbs for Better Sleep and How to Use Them {plus 3 “sleepy” tea recipes}

Salmon Cakes with Homemade Lemon Mayo | These salmon cakes are one of my go-to meals when I have nothing planned and need to get something on the table in a hurry. With the mayonnaise made from pastured eggs, and a side of asparagus, they come together quickly while providing us with a healthy meal. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Salmon Cakes with Homemade Lemon Mayonnaise

Vanilla Ginger Chai Tea {with a nourishing gelatin boost!} | In recent years, I've avoided vanilla chai drinks because of the caffeine and sugar. Then I happened up on this warm, soothing, nourishing, mug-worthy morning drink, and I include gelatin for a nutritional boost. If you like chai, I believe you will love this homemade version as much as I do! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Vanilla Ginger Chai Tea {with a nourishing gelatin boost!}

The Best Broccoli Bacon Salad {truly!} | I suppose it is a bit presumptuous of me to share this recipe a few months ahead of broccoli season, but -- trust me -- you'll want this recipe in hand when your kitchen overflows with green florets later this summer. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

The Best Broccoli Bacon Salad (Truly)