Author Archives: Sarah Gilbert

Hello, With Maple Whole Grain Brownies

By Sarah Gilbert | Published: September 8, 2010

We’re introducing ourselves with a recipe here at Real Zest. I’m Sarah Gilbert; I’m a writer, a mother of three, a military wife, a cooker of real food, a committed urban gardener, a keeper of chickens, a photographer, a believer in a God who honors every creation, every person, every land and water, every bumblebee. [...]

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Preserving with kids: Dreamy sweet slow slave labor

By Sarah Gilbert | Published: August 4, 2010
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In the mornings, in the evenings, in the hot, hot afternoons, I have been standing barefoot and apron-beclad in my kitchen, canning. This act, in this time, is especially fraught; while on one hand it is viewed as an act so radical it’s at the center of a few back-to-the-land-style movements — Radical Homemaking, the [...]

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