Jungle Jouissance

making a home in the Guatemalan rainforest

   Nov 24

Recipe: Refrigerator Cucumber Salad

This recipe turned up synchronistically just at the time when i had harvested my cucumber crop and was wondering what i was going to do with them. It is called a salad, but it seems a lot like pickles to me, and I love pickles!! It seemed like a great way to memorialise the fruits […]

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   Jul 13

Wonderbag Cooking: Chicken Stew

My good friend Cheryl Woods from England recently sent this Wonderbag to the jungle for some of us to try. The idea behind this basic technology is to heat the food to boiling, then seal it in this polystyrene-bead filled bag that holds in the heat while the food cooks itself.

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   Jun 02

Recipe: Tuna Noodle Casserole

Today I am using a new recipe plug-in for the first time … so when you want to print one of the recipes that you see on the blog, it is now super easy to get only the recipe and not all the surrounding stuff. Or you can print the recipe with pictures or without. […]

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   May 18

Recipe: Vegan Chickpea Burgers

For ages I have been wanting to find a perfect vegetarian “burger”. I have collected a pile of recipes, and I’ve tried a couple, but still hadn’t found one that made me want to run out to the kitchen and make more. Until this recipe.

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