Simple, practical and delicious recipes from my kitchen to yours. Traditional foods, modern meals, and the stories that keep our foodways alive.
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This book is built for the nights when the house is hungry, the grocery bill is high, and you want food that tastes like somebody cared.
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The chapters deliberately reuse core ingredients so the book lowers friction instead of creating another shopping list.
Not through fantasy savings. Through ordinary nights when beans, broth, cornmeal, squash or yesterday’s dinner become another meal instead of another order.
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Blue corn breakfast mush
Fire, fish & meat section
Breads & family table
Waste-nothing cookingThe chapters move from pantry foundations to fire and meat, family breads and one-pot meals, then waste-nothing cooking, berries, drinks and preserves — all in a layout that feels premium and easy to cook from.
The book tells you what kind of recipe you are reading instead of flattening many different Nations into one vague “Native secret.”
Used sparingly when a preparation can be anchored to a named Native Nation or documented Indigenous food tradition.
A household recipe using an Indigenous ingredient, foodway or cooking principle without pretending it is ancient or universal.
Original everyday recipes in Ada’s style: inexpensive, filling, useful, and clearly presented as Ada’s kitchen rather than inherited ceremony.
Ada is seventy-four and believes a kitchen should make life easier, not turn dinner into a performance. Her recipes are built around the food people actually keep, the mistakes that actually ruin dinner, and the old-fashioned idea that the same ingredient should earn its place more than once.
This is not presented as one universal Native cookbook. When a recipe comes from a documented tradition, the context is named. When it is inspired, it says so. When it is simply Ada’s own practical kitchen, it says that too.
“Take care of what you have, and it’ll take care of you.”
People buy this because they want recipes they can actually cook, ingredients they can actually find, and pages that teach instead of showing off.
“Finally, a cookbook that tells you what to do when dinner goes wrong. That alone made it worth the price.”
— Linda M.“The pages are beautiful, but what sold me was how practical it is. The leftovers section alone changed how I cook all week.”
— Cheryl D.“It reads like a wise grandmother is standing beside you saying: here’s how to stretch this meal, here’s how to fix it, here’s how to feed people well.”
— Karen S.100 recipes, 24 chapters, four books, and one practical rule: use what you have well.
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