Almost every Wednesday during the school year, my kids and I are gone from 7:30am to 5:15pm. It is our music co-op day. My kids are busy with band, orchestra, choir, color guard, jazz band, and private lessons for various instruments. A couple of my kids also go to another co-op partway through the day […]
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Need a new idea for a Friday Lenten meal or just a meatless Monday? Try this meatless lentil soup, which tastes an awful lot like sausage! I had the opportunity to attend an event recently where a vegan chef spoiled us with gorgeous and delicious foods. We had fewer legumes than I expected … lots
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The middle of summer – fresh veggies abound! But you also are either super busy preserving or just out enjoying the nice weather. It’s too hot to cook. You’re sick of salads. But you really want some simple nourishing food. That means one thing – time to bust out the Instant Pot and make this
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Would you drink bone broth? I thought it was a little crazy until one week threw me into desperate measures… In that week, my toddler got pneumonia, my second grader threw up, my preschooler coughed for days on end, my husband coughed…and I would get a tickle of a sore throat now and then. I knew
Don’t be a Chicken… …in the kitchen. Just USE the chicken. Yes, every part of it. Let’s face it. Picking up a box of chicken broth at the store is easy. A no-brainer. Until you start to think about added salt, lack of flavor, and especially the fact that it might not even be made
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Making bone broth in the Instant Pot is an excellent hack for saving time and money in a real food kitchen. There are two different Instant Pot methods that work with chicken, beef, or pork bones. The result is a healthy, nutrient-dense stock that you can drink on its own or add to recipes to
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My kids are hit and miss on soup lately, much to my chagrin since I like to serve soup 3-4 times a week in the fall and winter and even often in the summer, like this Sausage Bean and Greens Soup. I count my blessings that all three of them seem to love this creamy
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I was the cool mom last year for Halloween. Not only did I let my kids have more than one piece of candy in a day, but I also made a really cool dinner, appropriate to the season: Sometimes, even stuffy, boring adults like me have to let loose and do something fun (like make
Those kiddos of mine, who will happily eat salmon patties by the dozen (almost) and not bat an eye at the flavor factor of Bethany’s Instant Pot chipotle beef barbacoa, tend to groan in dismay when I say it’s stir fry night. There’s something about a pile of veggies on their plates that doesn’t make
Although it seems like we’re uber strict about food in our household, we have only had ONE rule that can never, ever be compromised on, no matter what. When we’re in social situations or gifted with food or traveling, we compromise. We consume artificial colors in moderation. We eat plenty of unknown trans fats, I’m
What’s the big deal with the Instant Pot, you ask? Why all the hype? I can tell you why I have learned to appreciate it: There are probably more benefits, and you’ll see some in the post about basic Instant Pot techniques like boiling eggs and cooking rice, but those are the biggies for me.
I’m not a bandwagon kind of girl. Just because everyone loves freezer cooking doesn’t mean it’s for me – the one time I did the “once a month cooking” thing with a friend, we spent about 3 days planning and shopping, 8+ hours cooking, and had 12 meals out of it. I remember being very,
Welcome to the final post in our series on Handling the Whole Chicken! In case you missed the earlier posts, you can catch them here: Hopefully by now you’re motivated to buy a whole chicken from a local farmer – or, at the very least, be willing to venture beyond boneless skinless chicken breast at the
If you’ve been following along in our series on Help Handling the Whole Chicken, you know that our family has been buying whole chickens from a local farmer for a few years now – partly because it’s just cheaper than buying chicken breast at the grocery store! However, it wasn’t until this past year that
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Welcome to the second post in our Help Handling the Whole Chicken series! In case you missed the first post on debunking 6 objections to buying a whole bird (including the myth that it’s more expensive than buying cheap boneless skinless chicken breast from the store), you can find it HERE. The goal of today’s
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to STOP buying boneless skinless chicken breast and buy a whole chicken instead. Welcome to a four-part series giving Help Handling the Whole Chicken! We’re starting off with a Monday Mission. Now if you’ve been around Kitchen Stewardship® for very long, you may be scratching your head
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This is a guest post from Renee Kohley of Raising Generation Nourished. It’s easy to roast acorn squash soup for a quick dinner. Learn how to make acorn soup with this maple acorn soup recipe. Acorn squash is one of my favorite fall veggies. I am actually a sucker for all things squash in the
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You know how some kids put ketchup on everything? In our house, it’s all about mustard. We go through mustard like nobody’s business, seriously. I should buy stock in the stuff. Which means, of course, that I should also buy stock in laundry stain treaters and ultimately, clothing since mustard is a bear to get
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to use the whole thing this week. Whether you are eating turkey, ham, or ground beef, you’re likely going to consume something from an animal that is a part of a whole. Where are the other parts? Are they being utilized or wasted? It’s a shame that
No longer will I bake meatballs for 20-30 minutes and then wash nasty cookie sheets for 15 minutes. Nope, thanks to my favorite soup book, Ladled by Kimberly Harris (of The Nourishing Gourmet), I learned that I can cook meatballs IN MY SOUP in 5 minutes with no drippy, baked-on meaty pan messes. Woo hoo!
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