Making Do, more than just Thanksgiving Soup!

This section was created to post inspirational recipes to help those who are having to “make-do” with what they are limited in using as far as ingredients goes due to budget and or severe nut allergies. 

I love to cook, however, I had recently inherited the well known severe nut allergies from my Dad’s side of the family.   Not just any nuts, but ALL and any kind of nuts, from coconut to sesame seeds!  So I have to learn and make up new recipe’s while having to be on a tight budget!  So instead of eating my favorite, pecan pie, for the Holiday’s, I learned to make sweet potato pie with a melted marsh-mellow topping! ;) MMMM!

Warning, I usually cook without really measuring it out….I call it guesstimating….and I make up a lot of my recipes, a bad habit     that had developed due to my experience of Dutch oven cooking out at a Living History Ranch as a pioneer reenactor.

So as an experienced living history reenactor, I learned the trade of constantly having to make-do with what I can use. Let’s see, for an example: I learned to make from scratch corn bread, roasted corn on the cobs, corn soup, mashed corn and cream (breakfast), beef stew and corn (lunch), cornbread green bean casserole, and uhh….iced corn latte shakes …no, no, just kidding on that last one!

I hope y’all will check back, I will be posting some recipes soon!

Thanks!

-Theophania :)