Make Your Own Nutritional Baby Food

baby eating water melon

Baby food is just another convenience food- full of added fat, sugar, and sometimes even artificial food colorings and other additives. Take control of what goes into your baby’s diet at various stages of development (and do a favor for your wallet and the environment, too) by making your own baby food at home. Read more on Foodal.

A Guide To Roasting Times For Various Types Of Meat

roasted chicken meat and vegetables on a wooden plate

Cooking meat can be a mystery to many people. Those new to cooking, of course, are to forgiven easily for not realizing exactly what kind of time must be given for roasting a chicken or broiling a steak. There are also those who are quite proficient and adept at knowing just the exact moment to retrieve …

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The Difference Between Cajun Cooking and Creole Cuisine

Shrimp Gumbo on a green background

They’re the Same, Right? Cajun and Creole sound similar, and they both come from Louisiana and are both well known variations of southern cooking. It is no surprise that many people confuse the two, but for those who are aware of the vast differences, the claims that Cajun and Creole are the same is like …

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The Natural Cleaning Power of Lemon

Lemon as a cleanser | Foodal.com

Household cleaners of one variety or another always seem to find their way onto the weekly grocery list. Unfortunately, they are expensive and sometime have unnecessary chemicals. Not long ago, I came across a shop in Chicago that specialized in natural cleansing products for the home, and after perusing the shelves found an all-purpose citrus …

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What is Einkorn Flour and How Do You Use It?

Close of a white, porcelain bowl full of einkorn berries.

The idea of einkorn flour is nothing new around here, not when we’ve brought you einkorn pizza crust, einkorn apple tartlets, and einkorn overnight pancakes. But, ask any wife of a fantasy-football-lover, even familiar ideas can be confusing (am I right?). We’ve received so many questions about this ingredient—Why are we using it? What is it? …

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The Great Pumpkin Pie Failure

A slice of pumpkin and whole pie and fresh pumpkins in the background | Foodal

Cooking is not just therapeutic or delicious; it is learning. And no learning happens without a few mistakes, even if that means a bad recipe or two.

On Bedtime Snacks

Jam on toast with green apple slices | Foodal

Grandmothers and snacks. Let’s reminiscence about our childhood and remember the good times, good things, all connected to food. Journey back with Shanna now.