Sick of paying a fortune for a small bag of dried fruit? Curious how to dehydrate fruit at home? It’s easier than you think! Dehydrating fruit is such a great option for long-term storage without filling your freezer. Most make great snack foods and can stay in your diaper bag or desk drawer for a […]
Even among the tangled webs of nutrition science and speculation (can you say “soaking grains”?), safe milk has got to be one of the most difficult. I bet I have more people dash a quick email or leave an unrelated comment at a post to ask about safe milk than any other food. Why all
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to examine, and hopefully improve, the milk your family drinks. From store brand skim to fresh milk from a local farm and everything in between, the vast array of milk choices is dizzying. There are those who will tell you adult human beings should not be drinking
I think people are starting to expect this sort of thing from me. When I realized I still had my friend’s Nesco American Harvest dehydrator in my possession once I started using the Excalibur, the only natural next step possible was to conduct a side-by-side test, a competition of sorts to see which could dehydrate
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“It better be able to make the whole meal at the touch of a button,” my husband said when he saw the Excalibur come out of its box. It’s as big as a microwave, and just as heavy. This is truly the extent of my counter space available for working. And yes, it’s always this messy.
Want to learn how to sprout wheat and then make sprouted flour for bread? Sprouting grains for flour is doable with these tips on how to sprout grains! Kimarie of Cardamom’s Pod, mom of nine saves time and money sprouting own flour and baking bread, joins us today with an amazing sprouted flour tutorial. My
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They’re coming. They can knock over a whole pepper plant in a single night. They can make Swiss cheese look complete next to the leaves of your green beans. They can put holes in your fruit that will just tick you off as you struggle to cut around them. If you have a garden, you
One summer day I was watching my neighbor meticulously patch his lawn after spending a half-hour edging the sidewalk and all I could think was, “If he spent that much time and care on a vegetable garden, he could feed his family all summer long.” There are so many ways we could use more of
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Get this recipe, updated and improved with tons of FAQs, in the eBook “Smart Sweets,” along with 29 other delicious desserts that won’t make you feel guilty! Click HERE for a table of contents. Maple syrup. Organic cherries. Coconut oil. Christmas coloring books. Celtic Sea Salt. Easter sticker calendar devotions. When I start to think
27 kids. 12 adults. Jello, flour, chocolate syrup, and lots of cream – both whipped and shaving. The goal? To make a mess. The end result? More fun than we even expected. Many of you appreciated the servitude my son showed with his 5th birthday party, and rightfully so. If you’ve got a wild side,
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Is “grassfed” a sort of status symbol when stamped on a recipe? You betcha. You can make just about any recipe, especially one that cooks the meat for a long time and in liquid, with either grassfed or conventionally raised beef. It makes the recipe title sound fancy, though, doesn’t it? 😉 UPDATE: A commenter pointed out that
Parenting a five year old has it’s joys and challenges. We’ve explored what a 5 year old can help with in the kitchen. Today, we’ll cover how a 5 year old can learn to give back. What five-year-old doesn’t love toys? My son is no exception, but he made us burst with pride when he
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The final Spring Cleaning Carnival is hosted by Claire at Saving Money Plan (Link no longer available), who shares a pretty awesome story with you today. If you’ve missed them, you can find all the carnival topics and hostesses here. My Debt Story I promise you: This isn’t the debt story you’re expecting to read.
Since I am clearly not qualified to say a word about anything in the organizing realm, I’m very happy to introduce Mandi of Organizing Your Way to take the reins for this week’s theme. You can find all the past topics and hostesses here. My Story I’ve always been a very organized person, but for
Anyone who takes photos of food that are this beautiful deserves some attention. Especially if that person has made the beautiful food and can assure you it’s fully nourishing and made from nutrient-dense, whole foods, usually local, organic, and in season. Jenny of Nourished Kitchen is someone I am honored to count as a friend
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What a treat! It’s Laura of Heavenly Homemakers popping over for a chat today, sharing her story about organic gardening, a subject she knows plenty about! See all the past topics and hostesses here. My Organic Story Seven years ago, I didn’t know. I didn’t think about the earth. I didn’t think about the soil.
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I’ll take bugs, please. What’s on your produce? When a friend of a friend moved to Colorado, my friend was telling me about the organic food situation there. People talk to me about food a lot. Go figure. 🙂 It seems that the gal could only find organic produce in the stores; that was the
Please welcome Kelly the Kitchen Kop today, whose peppy self I’ve had the pleasure of meeting in real life. She dishes out on the truth of nourishing foods and busts “politically correct” nutrition, and today she’s our feature in the Spring Cleaning: Get the Junk Out! Carnival. See all the topics here. The reasoning behind
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to learn about where your meat comes from. Perhaps you already know everything about your meat. Perhaps you’ve watched Food, Inc. and seek out local, grassfed or pastured, organic meats. Your job, then, is to find the balance. Keep on reading. This week we’re talking about CAFOs,
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To soak or not to soak? Nope, this isn’t the definitive post (sorry to tease you!). I’m just inviting you into my document folders to introduce you to the tangled web of research and opinions I have collected so far. Five experts from various fields have weighed in on the topic of soaking grains and
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